Rave Law Passted in US

**k0d0s** · 1st October 2002

The RAVE BILL has passed without any objections on first reading and it's on it's way to becoming LAW on ,2002. Originally thought up as a way to shut down raves it has already been used to shut down night clubs such as Buzz in DC and will soon be used to shut down any business, school, church, home and anything else the government feels like. This law will make the president, owner, manager, parent or any controlling entity of "any place" responsible for the use of "any controlled" substances and drugs by "anyone" (employee, customer, family) caught using or distributing inside your "any place" (business, school, church, home). You will be arrested and fined for the addictions of others.

The language in this bill is not specific and endangers the freedom of all Americans. Due to the fact that "controlled substances" or drugs are everywhere in our society the following is a list of "individuals who knowingly maintain, manage, control, rent, lease and or make available for use places where control substances are being used" and will soon be the objected to arrest, fines, jail time, public humiliation and degredation... School principals, jail guardians, church ministers, police chiefs, all business owners, corporate officials, government officials, parents, mayors, governors, and even the president of the United States are all "individuals who knowingly maintain, manage, control, rent, lease and or make available for use places where control substances are being used." The words "individual" and "places" are extremely generic and can include anyone and anywhere including and not limited to you, your family, friends, president, house, business, city, state and country.

This is not including alcohol and prescription drugs in this category, even though they are "controlled substances" and you could be arrested, put in jail and fined if your employees are caught "using" them in your place of business. Drug use is rampant in our society and this law is just another way for our government or "Big Brother" to use and bend the law as they see fit. Money is at the root of everything once again as our government tacks in yet another way to raise our taxes by being "authorized to appropriate such sums as necessary" (no limit on budget) and spend even more money by clogging our judicial systems and creating more government jobs with the introduction of "Demand Reduction Coordinators" who will be making $5,900,000 and This money should be used for educating children and teens. It's a well known fact that education and not regulation is the best control against illegal drug use.

We need to unite and fight against this bill. Make your voice heard by

Here it is in black, white and red . You be the judge on whether this bill should become law. Read between the lines and pay close attention to areas marked in red and acussations such as the use of glow sticks being a product of drug use. Soon they will be taking away whistles and tamborines and if that doesn't work...they will take away your dancing shoes.

RAVE Act S 2633 RS

Calendar No. 453 107th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 2633107th CONGRESS 2d Session A BILL

To prohibit an individual from knowingly opening, maintaining, managing, controlling, renting, leasing, making available for use , or profiting from any place for the purpose of manufacturing, distributing, or using any controlled substance , and for other purposes.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

June 18, 2002

Mr. BIDEN (for himself, Mr. GRASSLEY, Mr. HATCH, Mr. LEAHY, and Mr. DURBIN) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

June 27, 2002

Reported by Mr. LEAHY, without amendment

A BILL

To prohibit an individual from knowingly opening, maintaining, managing, controlling, renting, leasing, making available for use, or profiting from any place for the purpose of manufacturing, distributing, or using any controlled substance, and for other purposes.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act of 2002' or the `RAVE Act'. SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

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**k0d0s** · 1st October 2002

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Congress finds the following: (1) Each year tens of thousands of young people are initiated into the drug culture at `rave' parties or events ( all-night, alcohol-free dance parties typically featuring loud, pounding dance music ) . (2) Some raves are held in dance clubs with only a handful of people in attendance. Other raves are held at temporary venues such as warehouses, open fields, or empty buildings, with tens of thousands of people present. (3) The trafficking and use of `club drugs', including 3, 4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (Ecstasy or MDMA), Ketamine hydrochloride (Ketamine), Flunitrazepam (Rohypnol), and Gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB), is deeply embedded in the rave culture. (4) Many rave promoters go to great lengths to try to portray their events as alcohol-free parties that are safe places for young adults to go to dance with friends, and some even go so far as to hire off-duty, uniformed police officers to patrol outside of the venue to give parents the impression that the event is safe. (5) Despite such efforts to convince parents that raves are safe, promotional flyers with slang terms for Ecstasy or pictures of Ecstasy pills send the opposite message to teenagers, and in effect promote Ecstasy along with the rave. According to the National Drug Intelligence Center, raves have become little more than a way to exploit American youth . (6) Because rave promoters know that Ecstasy causes the body temperature in a user to rise and as a result causes the user to become very thirsty, many rave promoters facilitate and profit from flagrant drug use at rave parties or events by selling over-priced bottles of water and charging entrance fees to `chill-rooms' where users can cool down. (7) To enhance the effects of the drugs that patrons have ingested, rave promoters sell-- (A) neon glow sticks; (B) massage oils; (C) menthol nasal inhalers; and (D) pacifiers that are used to combat the involuntary teeth clenching associated with Ecstasy. ( Ecstasy is the most popular of the club drugs associated with raves. Thousands of teenagers are treated for overdoses and Ecstasy-related health problems in emergency rooms each year. The Drug Abuse Warning Network reports that Ecstasy mentions in emergency visits grew 1,040 percent between 1994 and 1999. (9) Ecstasy damages neurons in the brain which contain serotonin, the chemical responsible for mood, sleeping and eating habits, thinking processes, aggressive behavior, sexual function, and sensitivity to pain. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, this can lead to long-term brain damage that is still evident 6 to 7 years after Ecstasy use. (10) An Ecstasy overdose is characterized by an increased heart rate, hypertension, renal failure, visual hallucinations, and overheating of the body (some Ecstasy deaths have occurred after the core body temperature of the user goes as high as 110 degrees, causing all major organ systems to shutdown and muscles to breakdown), and may cause heart attacks, strokes, and seizures. SEC. 3. OFFENSES.

(a) IN GENERAL- Section 416(a) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 856(a)) is amended-- (1) in paragraph (1), by striking `open or maintain any place' and inserting `open, lease, rent, use, or maintain any place, whether permanently or temporarily,'; and (2) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following: `(2) manage or control any place, whether permanently or temporarily, either as an owner, lessee, agent, employee, occupant, or mortgagee, and knowingly and intentionally rent, lease, profit from, or make available for use, with or without compensation, the place for the purpose of unlawfully manufacturing, storing, distributing, or using a controlled substance.'. (b) TECHNICAL AMENDMENT- The heading to section 416 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 856) is amended to read as follows: `SEC. 416. MAINTAINING DRUG-INVOLVED PREMISES.'.

(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT- The table of contents to title II of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse and Prevention Act of 1970 is amended by striking the item relating to section 416 and inserting the following: `Sec. 416. Maintaining drug-involved premises.'. SEC. 4. CIVIL PENALTY AND EQUITABLE RELIEF FOR MAINTAINING DRUG-INVOLVED PREMISES.

Section 416 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 856) is amended by adding at the end the following: `(d)(1) Any person who violates subsection (a) shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than the greater of-- ` (A) $250,000 ; or `(B) 2 times the gross receipts, either known or estimated, that were derived from each violation that is attributable to the person. `(2) If a civil penalty is calculated under paragraph (1)(B), and there is more than 1 defendant, the court may apportion the penalty between multiple violators, but each violator shall be jointly and severally liable for the civil penalty under this subsection. `(e) Any person who violates subsection (a) shall be subject to declaratory and injunctive remedies as set forth in section 403(f).'. SEC. 5. DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE REMEDIES.

Section 403(f)(1) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 843(f)(1)) is amended by striking `this section or section 402' and inserting `this section, section 402, or 416'. SEC. 6. SENTENCING COMMISSION GUIDELINES.

The United States Sentencing Commission shall-- (1) review the Federal sentencing guidelines with respect to offenses involving gamma hydroxybutyric acid (GHB); (2) consider amending the Federal sentencing guidelines to provide for increased penalties such that those penalties reflect the seriousness of offenses involving GHB and the need to deter them; and (3) take any other action the Commission considers necessary to carry out this section. SEC. 7. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR A DEMAND REDUCTION COORDINATOR.

There is authorized to be appropriated $5,900,000 to the Drug Enforcement Administration of the Department of Justice for the hiring of a special agent in each State to serve as a Demand Reduction Coordinator. SEC. 8. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR DRUG EDUCATION.

There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as necessary to the Drug Enforcement Administration of the Department of Justice to educate youth, parents, and other interested adults about the drugs associated with raves. Calendar No. 453

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This is a total loss of freedom, if you ask me...

**jmagnum** · 1st October 2002

i totally agree with you man.. deffinetly not this new law... fuck soon there'll be a big war. either illegal dudez (us) versus government and their laws and the isps and shit and game companies or a war of all the ravers everywhere against the government. there will deffinetly be riots and shit and protesting. i don't mean war as in nuclear or some shit but technologicall probably for the hackers warez guys etc vs government etc and physical probably (riots and shit) when it comes to other people ravers etc vs government. causing a revolution without realizing it fucking dumbasses.

**BuBBeN** · 1st October 2002

ok..basic logic..drugs is illegal..warez is illegal..in most countries...none of them is gonna be more legal because of rants like this.

I constantly see this everywhere...and its very boring.

**k0d0s** · 1st October 2002

The government KNOWS that raves are still going to happen, though...hell, even if there isn't any drug use going on in a rave, from now on the cops will bust it anyway. It's bullshit; I think so and I'm not even a raver.

**Itz B Tek** · 1st October 2002

passteted????

jesus christ....

**Tyro** · 1st October 2002

and will soon be used to shut down any business, school, church, home and anything else the government feels like.

Yeah, right. A questionable bill, but don't try to play it as the end of all freedom as we know it, etc.

**oua2ooo** · 1st October 2002

that sux, but true undgeroud raves are still gonna happen, but all the shitty money making half clubs half raves will dissapear, underground ravez are still the best thats where the true love is at

but once i turn 21 im gonna be hitin Exit and SF ... no more raving for me

Some X some sex and a little bit of mnnnnnnnnn....

**k0d0s** · 1st October 2002

WORD UP LIKE A MOTHA' FUCKA'

**azrael69** · 1st October 2002

CHAIN LETTER

**p i m p** · 1st October 2002

who cares raves are gay and i bet its whiny ass democrats behind the law

**Hoopvillia** · 1st October 2002

Is this law even going to come to a vote? I've heard about it before and it really is going to make it 'open season' on any large organized parties. It needs to be voted down.