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Newsbrief:
"Buzzkill"
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Venerable
DC
Weekly
Rave
Party
Dies
from
Overdose
of
Ecstasy
Enforcement
9/27/02
Buzz is no more. For
the first time since 1995, the Nation nightclub in southeast Washington,
DC, that hosted the weekly dance party, was dark last Friday. For
the past seven years it had hosted Buzz, one of the nation's best known
continuing rave events, but Nation pulled the plug on Buzz after DC police
arrested eight people on Ecstasy distribution charges during the September
13 show.
"Nation's Friday night rave
event has attracted a peaceful and generally law-abiding crowd," the nightclub
said in a statement announcing the cancellation. "Unfortunately,
it recently has become clear that an unacceptable criminal element has
infiltrated this event. Despite stringent security measures on the
part of Nation, including thorough pat-down searches, this element has
been difficult to dislodge."
Indeed, according to some
patrons of the club, Nation had resorted to increasingly tough security
measures. "They were doing everything they could, a raver identified
only as Moore told the Washington Post. "You had to go through a
full search when you came through the door, practically airport-level security.
They would pat people down, make people take off their shoes, unfold the
brim of your hat. They would throw people out on the slightest inclination."
Some Buzz patrons who spoke
with DRCNet vowed to boycott Nation's other ongoing events in protest,
and supporters of Buzz staged a candlelight demonstration at the club last
Friday. But Buzzlight Productions, whose Amanda Huie is a member
of ROAR (Ravers Organized Against the RAVE Act), vowed to find a new location
for the DC tradition. "Buzzlife has nothing to hide," she told the
Post. "We are about the music and the scene, which is about being
as you are." Huie described a week's work of fruitless negotiations
with Nation as "intensely sad."
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Issue #256, 9/27/02
Editorial: The Tulia Lynchings | Medical Marijuana Supporters Rally in Sacramento | WAMM Files Federal Motion for Return of Marijuana Seized in Dispensary Raid | Calling on Students to Raise Your Voices for Repeal of the HEA Drug Provision | Former British Drug Czar Mo Mowlam Calls for Total Global Legalization, Cites Need to Quit Funding Political Violence | UC San Diego Orders Student Group to Drop Hyperlink to FARC Web Site, Cites Patriot Act | Colombian Leader Meets with Bush, Paramilitary Leader to Surrender Following US Indictment | Newsbrief: Putin to Create Russian DEA | Newsbrief: RAVE Act Sheds Another Cosponsor | Newsbrief: Buzzkill -- Venerable DC Weekly Rave Party Dies from Overdose of Ecstasy Enforcement | Newsbrief: UN Drug Control Chief Warns Canada Not to Legalize Marijuana | Newsbrief: French Cannabis Growers Create Facts on Ground | Newsbrief: German Health Ministry Says Safe Drug Centers Save Lives | Do You Read The Week Online? | Action Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision | The Reformer's Calendar
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