Ecstasy

'Bad Ecstasy' Rumors Are B.S.; Even Pure Molly Kills

Four suspected ecstasy overdose deaths on the East Coast in the last week have put the drug, long popular in rave-crazed Los Angeles, back in the headlines. One of the first reactions among ravers and even some medical professionals sympathetic to the substance also known as MDMA or molly is that w ... More >>

Elisa Lam: Why Did She Appear To Be Acting So Strange?

The seemingly strange behavior of once-missing tourist Elisa Lam paired with the discovery of her body Tuesday in a hotel water-storage tank begs questions about her actions before the 21-year-old's untimely death. In an effort to find the Canadian traveler, the LAPD last week revealed security vid ... More >>

Moon Rocks: The Best High on Earth

Moon rocks are all the rage. But can any drug be that good?

Compton Rapper Problem Wrote the Name of His New Mixtape in MDMA

Compton rapper Problem has worked heavily with hip-hop icons Snoop Dogg and E-40 -- his collaboration with the latter, "Function," is one of the catchiest songs of 2012. But he's also just about the only MC in the game who isn't scared to look happy about his success. Hot on the heels of his new mix ... More >>

Emily McCaughan, EDC Vegas Raver Her Fell to Death, Had Ecstasy, GHB in Her System

The Electric Daisy Carnival attendee who fell 20 stories from a Las Vegas hotel room after expressing thoughts of paranoia died accidentally, the Clark County Coroner-Medical Examiner ruled this week. The official cause of 22-year-old Emily McCaughan's death was "multiple blunt-force injuries," the ... More >>

Ecstasy Use Kills Memory; Even 10 Pills in a Year Will Have You Scratching Your Head

Ever talk to a graying raver about that great party in nineteen-ninety ... oh, what year was that again? Yeah. Unfortunately, this is bad news here in the rave capital of America: Yet another study has found that ecstasy can lead to memory loss. Not only that, but it apparently doesn't take much:

10 Raver Deaths in 5 Years: Ecstasy Often Blamed

A Canadian doctor who wants to legalize ecstasy says the drug is safe and that it's only the adulterated version of MDMA you find on the street that can kill you. But doctors at Los Angeles emergency rooms have told us that pure ecstasy can kill, including causing vital oxygen deprivation to organs ... More >>

Ecstasy Is Safe, Dr. Perry Kendall Says: He's An Idiot

A Canadian doctor flew off the deep end this week when he declared that pure ecstasy was essentially safe. While many still debate the safety of MDMA, the jury is still out -- and there's plenty of anecdotal evidence, including deaths in Los Angeles, the rave capital of the nation, to promote cauti ... More >>

Ecstasy, Marijuana, LSD Sold at Online 'Farmers Market:' Feds in L.A. Move In For The Bust

What if we were to tell you there was a place online where you could buy ecstasy, marijuana and LSD, no questions asked? You'd say, Right on! (We know our readers). Federal authorities, unfortunately, weren't as gung-ho about this particular operation, and today they announced that the so-called F ... More >>

Ecstasy Use Can Increase Your Chance of Having a Baby Boy (And Other Bad Things)

Ah, yes, ecstasy: The drug that makes you feel good before you feel really bad. Turns out there's another reason for E users in this rave capital of the nation to consider sticking with marijuana: A recent Case Western Reserve University study found that a pregnant mom's ecstasy use could be bad ... More >>

Jimmy Luong, L.A. Ecstasy Kingpin, Gets 22 Years Behind Bars

And then there was agony. Jimmy Luong, a 30-year-old from Monterey Park, was somewhat of an Ecstasy kingpin in these parts, responsible for the distribution of at least 1 million pills in just a few months' time, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in L.A. Now he'll be living in a cell ...

Rave Drug Ecstasy Causes 'Lasting Changes in Brain' Says New Research

Ceasar SebastianRavers.​The stereotype of the e-tard, the raver who uses so much ecstasy he becomes mentally defective, might have some basis in fact. A Vanderbilt University psychiatry professor concludes in recent research that MDMA, the drug favored at parties here in the rave capital of t ... More >>

Raves Might be Reined in Under Fiona Ma's Bill, Which Just Passed The California Legislature

Fiona.​The same day that the family of a teenager who died of an ecstasy overdose after attending an L.A. rave filed suit against public officials, San Francisco state assemblywoman Fiona Ma saw her raves-safety bill pass the legislature. It just needs Gov. Jerry Brown's signature to go into l ... More >>

Raves Might be Reined in Under Fiona Ma's Bill, Which Just Passed The California Legislature

Fiona.​The same day that the family of a teenager who died of an ecstasy overdose after attending an L.A. rave filed suit against public officials, San Francisco state assemblywoman Fiona Ma saw her raves-safety bill pass the legislature. It just needs Gov. Jerry Brown's signature to go into l ... More >>

Rave Promoter, L.A. Coliseum Being Sued by Parents of Ecstasy Overdose Victim Sasha Rodriguez

Sasha Rodriguez.​Updated with reaction from the promoter, whose attorney calls the suit "completely without merit." First posted at 11:29 a.m. The parents of late teenager Sasha Rodriguez, who died of an ecstasy overdose after attending 2010's Electric Daisy Carnival rave at the publicly run ... More >>

Electric Daisy Carnival Sees Two More Possibly Ecstasy Related Deaths Connected to its Dallas Parties

Kevin TodoraEDC Dallas.​Updated with revised statement from EDC's promoters, at the bottom. Two more deaths have been possibly linked to Electric Daisy Carnival, the L.A.-bred rave that has been under fire following the death of 15-year-old Sasha Rodriguez at the Los Angeles party last year a ... More >>

Ecstasy Trade: 60 Percent More E Comes From Canada Than Mexico; Asian Drug Gangs Getting Smarter

Cuteload from Canada.​Did you know that 1,460 pounds of ecstasy were confiscated by agents at the northern U.S. border between 2005 and 2009? Compare that to 24 measly pounds at the Mexican border -- barely enough for one day at the Electric Daisy Carnival -- despite hundreds of thousands of d ... More >>

Jimmy Chau, San Gabriel Wah Ching Gang Member, Allegedly Had 2,000 Ecstasy Pills on Him During Traffic Stop

YouTubeWah Ching.​Damn, drug dealers have to learn have to learn how to drive. We warned you about this when last we reported about a suspect named Johnny V. Pham, who got popped in Arcadia for allegedly rolling through a stop sign -- with 8,000 ecstasy pills in his car. Now authorities say ... More >>

Ecstasy Use Among Teens Up Two-Thirds in The United States: No Surprise in The Rave Capital, Los Angeles

We're not saying these two are on ecstasy. But maybe they should be.​There's been a huge increase in teen ecstasy use in the United States. Tell us something we don't know. L.A., the rave capital of the nation, probably accounts for most of it. According to the The 22nd annual Partnership ... More >>

Ecstasy-Related Emergency Room Visits Up 75 Percent Nationwide

bossyilooDropping ecstasy appears to be on the rise.​If you think controversial rave parties in L.A. have gotten younger and more ecstasy-crazed, there's new evidence to back up your notion. A study released today by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration says e ... More >>

Raves: Pro-Marijuana Group Drug Policy Alliance Supports Coliseum Raves and L.A. County's How-to-Take-Ecstasy Fliers

Caesar SebastianRavers at Electric Daisy Carnival.​The Drug Policy Alliance, an influential pro-marijuana group that supported the pot legalization initiative in California last year, is backing the L.A. County Department of Public Health's controversial how-to-take ecstasy fliers that were to ... More >>

Raves: L.A. County Leader Mike Antonovich Wants to Pull Plug on How-to-Take-Ecstasy Education Fliers

Raver down at Electric Daisy Carnival.​After LA Weekly brought them to light, an L.A. County leader has asked its Department of Public Heath to stop distributing fliers that essentially teach young people how to trip on ecstasy more safely. The fliers tell ravers to "aim low (dose AND frequen ... More >>

Raves: Electric Daisy Carnival Promoter Bans LED Lights at Upcoming L.A. Area Parties

raveprints.comA raver enjoys a light show at 2007's Electric Daisy Carnival.​L.A.'s embattled mega-rave promoter Insomniac Events has banned bright LED lights from its parties, stating that they present a negative image of the events when "groups of music fans are sitting or lying on the floor ... More >>

Overdose Victims at Next Electric Daisy Carnival Rave Will be Held On-Site and Kept Away From L.A. Emergency Rooms

Does this guy need to visit the emergency room? A scene at Electric Daisy Carvinal 2008, posted at the website Ravelinks.​One of the scarier aspects of public officials' attempts to whitewash some of the seedier facets of raves (young people passed out, overdosing and in need of physicians' ca ... More >>

Francisco Montoya's Alleged Graffiti Tagging Found On Flickr, Ecstasy Found In His Home, LAPD Says

All your yuppie downtown are belong to us.​Here's a cautionary tale for all you aspiring spray-can artistes out there: If you're "throwing up" your beautiful work on someone's property without permission, try not to post photos of your conquests on Flickr. The LAPD on Friday says Francisco Mo ... More >>

Ravers Say 15-Year-Old Overdose Victim Sasha Rodriguez, Parents Are To Blame For Her Death And The Subsequent Controversy Over The Massive Parties In L.A.

Electric Daisy Carnival ravers.​Our story this week about how the family of a 15-year-old girl ecstasy-overdose victim filed a $5 million claim against the city and county of L.A. has drawn a lot of passionate response -- mostly against the teen's parents. Sasha Rodriguez died a few days afte ... More >>

Raving Without Ecstasy: Is It Even Possible?

Caesar SebastianRavers at Together As One.​Following our weekend report about the 62 medical emergencies and 25 arrests at the annual "Together As One" New Year's Eve rave, several commenters weighed in to accuse us of being biased. After all, these megaraves are just good clean fun for the w ... More >>

Megaraves in the News

Death, Money and Megaraves

Why Los Angeles politicians embrace a growing Ecstasy phenom that kills

Raves: What Responsibility Do Parents Have To Keep Underage Teens Away From Parties?

Timothy NorrisRavers at last June's Electric Daisy Carnival.​Raves have been in the news a lot this year, as much for the clusterfuckian conditions created by greedy promoters as for the behavior of weekend warriors. Over the weekend we can all be thankful that a 14-year-old who went missing ... More >>

Mother Of Sasha Rodriguez, Girl Who Died Of Ecstasy Overdose Following A Night At Electric Daisy Carnival Rave, Says Teen Didn't Know She Was Taking E

Facebook.Sasha Rodriguez didn't know she was taking E?​Sasha Rodriguez is the young raver who might have changed everything, but not before losing her life to ecstasy. After attending L.A.'s Electric Daisy Carnival in June the 15-year-old died of an apparent ecstasy overdose. Her mother, Grac ... More >>

Rave Shooting: 26-Year-Old Clara Chun Dies At South El Monte Party

​A 26-year-old woman was killed and three men were wounded, one critically, at a rave in South El Monte early Saturday, according to authorities and the Pasadena Star-News. According to the Star-News the dead woman was identified as Clara Myung Hee Chun, 26, of San Gabriel. Sheriff's official ... More >>

Following Post-Rave Death Of Teen, U.S. Attorney's Office Cracks Down On Alleged Ecstasy Ring; $17 Million In Pills Seized

U.S. Attorney's OfficeTuan Vu, at-large.​Fifteen suspects were indicted this week following a federal investigation in the Los Angeles area that led to the seizure of 1.1 million tablets of ecstasy -- $17 million worth, the U.S. Attorney's Office in L.A. announced Thursday. The U.S. Attorney i ... More >>

Teen Girl Who Died After Attending 'EDC' Rave Likely Took Ecstasy

FacebookSasha Rodriguez.​The 15-year-old girl who died after attending last month's Electric Daisy Carnival rave took one dose of ecstasy, according to people close to the girl or her friends. One friend told LA Weekly that Sasha Rodriguez took one ecstasy pill and then collapsed. Another you ... More >>

FEELIN' . . . WHAT'S THAT WORD?

Brent Shapiro’s Final Hours

Brent Shapiro, 1980–2005

OD may have killed son of O.J.’s lawyer

The Hallucinogenic Way of Dying

Can psilocybin reduce death anxiety in end-stage cancer patients?

Your Brain on Bad Science

Leading Ecstasy researcher retracts critical study

Raves on the Run

Feds jack up sentences, enforcement against Ecstasy

A New Class of Criminal

Ecstasy Without Fear

DanceSafe uses Web site to make rave dosing less risky