Fight For Your Right to Party

Staff Drug Policy Action Center

The party is officially over if two guilt-by-association drug acts are passed. Portions of the CLEAN-UP Act and the RAVE Act, which are currently being considered by Congress, would make it easier for the federal government to punish promoters and property owners for drug offenses committed at their events?even if they have no knowledge of them. Critics fear club owners and promoters will be scared off by the idea of doing time for crimes they didn?t commit and that soon there will be nowhere to go and see live music. There is talk that investigators would be able to discriminate against certain venues under these new laws and crack down on events that don?t fit their good-old-boy tastes in music. With so much of Congress? attention being devoted to the war on terror and the invastion of Iraq, organizers at the Drug Policy Action Center worry that the misguided bills will breezed through with little deliberation. They invite you to contact your congressperson and speak out against these bills before it?s too late.
-Nick Garafola

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