Still, some reporters have attended commercial raves held after-hours at private night clubs and staffed only by off duty police officers who look the other way after kids walk through the door. Users go to extreme measures to get the best high. You see people with the little dust masks on, says seventeen year old Tracy. They put Vicks mentholatum inside and the vapors like kick in the drug a little bit. In the atmosphere of love and unity, kids also pass drugs between strangers, often popping into their mouth whatever is offered.
Avid ravers say the drug scene is overplayed and that a few bad kids give raves a bad name.
Still, most admit that during a Rave drugs are very available and use is highly prominent. Raves use to be held in out of the way locations at nightclubs past midnight and were promoted only by word of mouth. But the rave scene is now mainstream with large companies handling sales and promotion. Promoters often offer special prices and prizes to bring kids to the door. Kids say it s like a family where everybody accepts each others.