Drugs and music have long been tied together. From marijuana and jazz, and amphetamines
and punk, drugs and popular music have been inextricably joined. Today the music is electronic
and ecstasy and party drugs are the drugs of choice. Raves and clubs are often treated by public
health experts as merely conduits for drugs, and youth drug use is presented as an unalloyed
danger. Within cultural studies, raves and dance scenes are often celebrated as liberating or
transgressive, but the issue of drug use within these scenes is often ignored or brushed aside. more