.Will a Rave Ban at the Cow Palace Make Things Worse?

After one person died from a drug overdose and nine others were hospitalized following Pop 2010: The Dream on Saturday at the Cow Palace, a police official and San Mateo county supervisor are calling for a ban on raves at the venue, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. But it’s questionable whether a ban on such events would prevent such deaths from happening in the future; in fact, it could make the problem worse.

The Chronicle initially reported that the victim, twenty-year-old Anthony Mata of Santa Clara, was likely given a “tainted” drug. “Obviously someone was either giving away or selling drugs that were laced with something that caused a number of kids to be taken to the hospital,” said Eileen Shields, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Doctors and police backed that up, saying that all the patients exhibited “life-threatening symptoms such as internal bleeding and kidney failure” that was inconsistent with an ecstasy overdose. According to the article, more than 800 ecstasy tabs were confiscated during the event, along with LSD and methamphetamine.

Skills DJ Workshop founder Jason Sperling, aka Dyloot.

  • Skills DJ Workshop founder Jason Sperling, aka Dyloot.

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