Defqon.1 – 18,000 people attended and they are all those terrible drug addicts you hear about…apparently

Well you’ve probably heard that a bloke died at the Defqon 1 party allegedly from a cocktail of drugs and 84 people got themselves arrested.

All the same grumblers are now grumbling in the same way they have been since the old days of Warehouse Raves in that time-tested “We told you so” way. Of course no one is bothering to mention that the extent of police attention to the event was likely to produce these sort of arrest numbers. No one is mentioning that Alchohol kills more people and causes more havoc than recreational drugs ever do week in week out…tut tut

I am sure if on the same night the police were out in force at any event where young people were letting off steam and having fun they would have averaged about the same numbers of bodies in vehicles. Why if they just visited the average suburban party, proportionally they’d find just the same number of young people taking drugs.

I Popped a pill, danced a lot, snuggled in the corner with a hot guy..what a night..Little did I know that was it: the demon was on my back. I needed more and more and more. A week later I was mainlining heroin and prostituting myself to not hot guys and listening to Death Metal..

There were even 20 overdoses apparently! Little wonder that people gulped all their pills down quickly and unsafely at the sight of barking dogs and mobs of snarling policemen. If there were more than the happy level of overdoses one could perchance blame that on an over the top police presence?? If they really “care” as they suggest, then possibly not turning up ala Gestapo might be more helpful…

Out of 18,000 people enjoying the music the police arrested 84 for possessing or taking drugs. That means around 0.004% were being slightly naughty…lets have a bit of perspective here!

Ok I’m not exactly a big fan of drugs, but I do like Dance Parties and this exact same stigma has been dumped on people enjoying music outside the norm since..oh I don’t know…the late eighties when warehouse parties were the thing (yes kiddies once we could just take over a Warehouse and enjoy the music, no insurance, no police, no barking dogs…).

People took pills then, maybe the same percentage that do now. But it only makes sense that if there’s all us old Ravers still creeping around waxing lyrically about the “good old days” that nothing too harmful was going on. Of course every generation believes it parties harder than those previous, but lets face it we had just as much fun and we’re all still alive and not a generation turned into Zombies by a few recreational party lollies.