Also I’ve just had a look for warnings of contaminated/dangerous pills and there are warnings of pills containing PMMA, however the messages are (deliberately?) unclear about whether these relate to incidents in 2011 or more recent ones. What is clear is that loads of dealers are being busted, if you want to do this stuff and haven’t got friends of your age in NL then there seems to be no alternative other than to go around talking to 20 something lads as they are the main ones now willing to take the risk. it is the same over here in England.
young dealers often just get a proportionate fine and/or community service and/or counselling (to encourage them out of crime) for selling MDMA. But for selling PMMA or anything dangerous they can get 8 years prison if anyone is hurt. Large festivals like Dance Valley are monitored by various covert police units as you would expect so only a complete kutidioot would sell bad pills at such a large event, but unfortunately they do exist especially those what don’t like foreigners and for whom life is so shit 8 years in cell makes no difference. hopefully the security have a shitlist of such kutidioten as they would damage the events reputation and this is a high profile event where they try and distance themselves from drugs (many of the testing points have now gone because the promoters got told they would not get their licenses if they encouraged drug use).
the impression I’ve got from reading most of the Dutch dance sites is that even young ravers still go by their agenda and plan their partying way in advance, sorting out whatever they want at that point. then they can also use the testing services which unearth contaminated pills.
