@process 392915 wrote:
my mate told me the also had an amnesty bin so once you got caught you could have the option of ditching your drugs in thier rather than having to make the cops go through the process off having to take you to court or fill out paper work..
common practice at legal events nowadays – especially as it would be much less of a loss to surrender a small amount of drugs for personal use than lose the price of the ticket and get instead a weekend in jug!
it thus reduces the amount of reported “crimes” but can unfortunately still be interpreted by non-drug users as a sign that the real level of drug use associated with these events is infact being masked (even if its not being tolerated as such).
That said these bins do act as a harm reduction strategy in the long term as their contents are often turned in to the CSI scientists rather than just being destroyed, and provide an independent source of street substances for testing, which is also how the cops, Home Office and ACMD get an idea of what sort of drugs are being consumed at festivals.
most licensing authorities also insist the security is independent from the organisers (and have ways of checking on this) to try and discourage collusion between event organisers and dealing groups to replace the confiscated drugs. Of course this must still happen to some extent, which is where SOCA’s forensic accountants start delving into where the money comes from for each festival! (as a festival is usually run as a limited company it needs to submit annual accounts, these can be subjected to scrutiny by public and govt authorities alike).
bear in mind also that some todays government are my age, some used to be party heads in their hooray henry days (particularly these more “posh” festivals) and thus they “know all the tricks”.
