Summer concerts amp up drug screening after ‘Molly’ deaths

“Drugs have always been a big part of the scene and always will be,” said Amy Raves, a Los Angeles-based rave advocate who has attended dozens of electronic music shows.
“The idea is how to promote safer raving, to educate kids that abstinence is the best policy, but to realize that’s not always practical,” she said.

Organizers are taking no chances this year at events from Tennessee’s Bonnaroo, a four-day music and arts festival that wraps up on Sunday, to Mysteryland held each Memorial Day in Bethel Woods, New York, the site of Woodstock in 1969, to Electric Zoo, a popular New York City electronic festival.

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