rugs sang, distinguished must exist, this office was between consumed to tron. that's not to say that everybody who does it takes drugs about the culture in which it happens was made with their influence . the. it's hard for me to even imagine it without drugs. when d for mitchell, we are forced to both own at home. despite the government's move from bond to berlin, only 2 areas in the capital were really humming culture and night. life class, overwrite berlin's mer at the time, confidently declared in 2003. berlin is poor but sexy. the people who could relate to that were changing the city. my masters of i'm on, i'm my name is as i'm under i inches. i am 52 years old and, and i am active in various areas of event management adds to jordan palmer home on to rick bryan's ranges has been engaged in night life for many years. these, the spokesman for the berlin club commission,

and association of cultural creatives within the party scene in berlin. when done. com, d 5, it myself flat off there. and then came the world camp in 2006, and it was a fabulous summer. and the city was all of international tours here in bellevue middle of. and they just couldn't believe how hard we could party here in berlin. apathy that kind of thing didn't exist anywhere else in the world, i think. and so in 2006, this wish berlin really did change its image through this poor bad sick libraries. that override had coined enough we proudly showed up to the world what we could do with nothing and of the plan with empathy theft of what fine of inquiry fietta, hooker, hiden, berlin continued to develop into a party town. those who wanted to stalk up on the requisite trucks had it easy. and crude spoken fredericks hung near many clubs, drugs were openly available. lauren, laura alissa, drugs are being consumed in germany known for the past 9 years. the number of

crimes recorded by the police has risen from that young last year to almost 360000 . 0, la shrimp is the head of the narcotics division of the berlin state police. drug use in the capital has been increasing for years. berlin is currently a 10 year high, cocaine and ecstasy dominate the scene as the drugs of choice for party gold. goods who knew it won't consume go straight to the increasing drug consumption in this city is without a doubt, fueled by its intense and abundant night life. but this is not to suggest that drugs are exclusively being consumed by party. go is you, there is most certainly a segment which is exploiting the situation to acquire drugs with relative ego without you should life denied for ongoing how m o m o n a shrimp is on his way to the forensic institute of the berlin state police. the center for forensic criminal

science at the berlin police department is looking to present with oral whether the symbol in these are the typical narcotics that i encounter here in berlin. here's a hash plate found at the state groups. these are l s. d strips, xena and him out of la various india may, tablets, methamphetamine formed mid on the classic crystal math. russell is less common here in berlin, but it is here. one wasn't been and also very common in berlin as cocaine. so in this white powder cook, i even was wise approver, when he and heroine this base saw it here is abused by iga festival off the cannabis and amphetamines. like speed m d m a is the 3rd most commonly consumed drug among 15 to 34 year olds in germany. 10 years ago, ecstasy tablets look completely different than they do today. they are now made target specific demographics. smitherman, pre, it's your use ones to target age groups. you find these sorts things exciting and

cool up and there's a certain playfulness to it as well. but when it, if you look at the traditional tablet here, they don't look very entertainment for her and go to the list of course is something completely different, isn't digital because i know they remind you of something simple and smart that you wouldn't mind consuming hope. the mattresses come to me, it's within the composition of ecstasy is not always the same. often they contain other psychoactive substances besides m. d a may. in europe is primarily produced in the netherlands or belgium. it costs between $15.20 to produce one ecstasy tablet. the user can expect to pay around $5.00 to $10.00 euros per tablet on the black market. unison hannah metro, partying, and berlin jones has come back to finish high school. and anna works as a teacher both take drugs in their free time when they party,

they often do so with the list drugs, fear in career consequences. they wish not to be identified. their names and voice has been changed from this program with a sister to tighten. i would like to be able to share myself because i would really like to show that there are not only these negative examples. there are people from the little class to didn't even like me. you definitely used drunk come to me. but i know if i showed myself here, it would cause problems for me. it was, that is if i could still even find a job and we do it every weekend, i like to do the honest and i'm not by the drugs that use over the internet. sometimes they're already toner pallets of drugs offered for sale by a messenger services like telegraph. you do it quicker in houses co, kristy hash, the ark, i less d z. my agra is lots and lots of cannabis,

more ecstasy than you can imagine on that. you can actually have anything delivered, no matter where you are in berlin, if at any time of the day light is not said. there is plenty of demand. there are a telegram groups with up to 20000 members. expenses which by handled honestly. it's pretty amazing to me that all this is even possible. as i can see, it doesn't matter if it's illegal to god and isaac, whether the state agrees to it or not makes no difference at all calls. i can call this number and say to 20 minutes or half an hour, a taxi will show up here and deliver as much cocaine as we want to buy. you need the money. of course. most of these groups are accessible to anybody, including to minors. it is almost impossible for the police to take down these drug networks. because you don't need a big coin, wallace. i'm. you're interested in a drug dealer office to sell it to you, and you set up a meet through private chads up on you arrange everything by chat, get the time and place the price. and then you made you couldn't you paying cash?

so there is no money trail to follow and the chairs are deleted automatically, models by curious students, photographers, architects, and designers. many of them take drugs from time to time. that white people want to get home the 1st place with dr. andrea uab and i used to be an emergency physician and experienced a variety of drug related emergencies in the bird. in my life, she and her husband, the found of normalization, dedicated to the scientific research and social utility of psychedelic substance consumption. she operates a psychotherapy practice, and berlin mentioned the needful use psychoactive substances for 2 main reasons. i the 1st is the classic reason i have to escape from an uncomfortable mental or emotional situation. for example,

if someone come same from work stress and has it via, it's difficult to escape from a certain state of being funded crap. the other reason is to move toward a more comfortable date of being done. that is what we find. for example, in this whole party scene mentioned was people who take m t m a, for example, they are looking for a way to feel better would have more emotionally open, more relaxed, more accessible on social media. looked santa scientific evidence shows that people have been consuming psychoactive substances for thousands of years have drawing short people with mushrooms floating over their heads. even animals indulge and intoxication now. and then as soon as even dolphins, for example, gentle fins get themselves high on half efficient helps anything really kind of young dolphin swim a tougher fish snip at them and then float on front in the water. it can't describe bath as anything else, but it hi. hi. if you click through relevance internet for me,

you can find people exchanging tips about which drugs are best suited for a club weekend in berlin. those who want to take a legal trucks can also do so many clubs in the capitol has learned most kind, kind of cooper, tribal design and mostly them by the sting leader in life. a guy old dad mentioned that their bar wouldn't and he just put on a true order. they're just ready group. it's 5, we're going to need our vice. the storm cleanser makes us to yet mankind isn't woman consume knish, stockton condom, the fan admonished yet of unless it's happening openly at the bar or something like that to help it's pretty tough to proactively prevent consumption and i've been, if i then the moth, my mom club, i don't, the only way would be to make the club a totally regulated space. but the idea of a club is not to make it a regulated space. and i basically have to live with the fact that these rooms are

going to be used for activities which are outside the law from visits, mr. dixon, the buying off and possession of drugs or criminal offenses in germany. this applies to the capital city and its clubs as well. there are exceptions for small quantities for personal use, up to 15 grams of cannabis are tolerated in berlin. and all the german states, the amount of cannabis tolerated for personal consumption is significantly less endorsed on in germany in particular, but also in other european and western countries. the discourse is very much characterized by moralistic finger pointing to the question is, who did these limits benefit you benefits from these restriction that it's most definitely not safer for consumers. in fact, it's more dangerous because they're being driven into an in legal market, which is often upper ages families, this poisonous dismissal. some countries are pursuing different policy strategies to those of germany. in portugal without drugs including cannabis, cocaine, and ecstasy, and not legal. they were

d criminalized in 2001. this means that being caught with these trunks in portugal does not automatically results and penalties. the purchase of possession of all trucks for personal use is permitted. along with the netherlands, portugal is focusing on education, support, and control dispensing rather than on punishment. portugal seems to be faring better with his moderate policies from germany. according to the 2019 european drug report, portugal registered for drug deaths per 1000000 inhabitants. in contrast, 21 in germany is asia harden is hosted on us mentioned glutes. it is in societies interest for people to be healthy, custody under men. and it is in societies interests for people to be able to indulge themselves. this is the trade off, and the way we are handling it is indulging, is being banished to the dark corners. oh, and that is

a place that suits indulgence quite nicely. possibly marshal can scoot it in principle, using drugs openly is not permitted in the club. consumers are therefore obliged to seek other high toys and the clubs, often not entirely without complicity. and this is my new lehman quincy mc announcement or letter. nobody really wants to take drugs in the bathroom. it just isn't very nice to waste. and then so obviously if there's a little space somewhere in the club from some kind of little wooden hut or even some beds that i can lie on or couches and sofa where i can be hidden and no one can see me. if i can enjoy some time alone with my friends and take my drugs in peace, that's going to be much nicer of course. and of course the clubs want to make that possible for the people. so not feel forced to get high on a toilet like a junky. thanks. it's muslim john to you not to let disciplines and people who want to take drugs do whether a home or in the club. jennifer didn't take drugs for the 1st time at the con,

either, but occasionally in her native united states to. but should berlin clubs create rooms for drug consumption? since 2018, the berlin police have been coordinating with the berlin club commission. the goal is to have an open dialogue about possible problems. the fact that a police fire of if miss may affect light permit as a drug from relations with the police cannot be compared with the situation 20 years ago. for disregard happened. it is much more relaxed this year. in many ways i would even say it has become more like a partnership where both sides gain a little behind that. a decal club owner on one hand because at the police no longer ride in and shut the place down. i found the notation for and for the police on the other than if the club owner keeps an ear to the ground for and let them know if the situation starts to get out of hand. i thought of hellish. we had the club commission policy. mike is in the police agree on one thing. simply banning

drugs from the clubs will not work. it is to you topic to believe that our society will ever be free of drugs, would be even the police can't claim that we can solve the drug problem. we need strong evidence to justify the charge that drugs are being sold off to you. if i have a clear target, then i am in the position to carry out police raids and similar measures. in 201753000 parties and club events were organized in berlin. according to the berlin club commission, the police say they conducted 79 rights on berlin clubs. in the same year, there were $58.00 each in 20182019 respectively. these were the numbers before the corona pandemic, but when people could still dancing, the fact is, in 2018. berlin drew 3000000 club tourists to the city. the berlin club coach has become a significance economic driver in the past that he is tourist the come to berlin

for the clubs also spend money on accommodations, meals, transportation, and shopping. these factors combined to bring in revenues of around 1.4, right, 1000000000 euros was in 1000000000 and foster sentence over britain. we have to face the fact here that the city of berlin does not have much. and how to use like you are, lynn has the government and it has culture. and that's it. from frankfurt, munich, i'm hamburg shook god doesn't. those are the economically important cities, which dr. germany's prosperity and policy. berlin doesn't have that. that's been what it has is a 50 year tradition, all counterculture and free spaces, route and fire, which along with night life and techno have lent berlin. it's big, his kind of on coolest. and most spectacular expression technol if i know, told through groups to inspect our call yesterday all formal from frederick alondo is an open sociologist club culture was

a major economic factor for the city before the corona pandemic. to what extent does she see a danger of political dependency on the club scene? that is this musician had i and my usa, we cannot afford to under estimate the economic impact on which is vital for been in one day. we meet liquidity and we need people to come here to appreciate the thick long is the show and gauge with that is a shot for she personally, i would be a bit reluctant to call it a dependency. and it's really more of an interdependent as it's even into the clubs, the needs within of glen, all the stuff it's integrated operating as norma. yeah. and so the city of the and then needs the clamp even to help attract visitors to the city, to make these experiences available to people, of whom to stand. laner is 24 and is studying in berlin. she too wants to remain anonymous because she is afraid of being stigmatized. her name and voice have also been changed. she stopped taking synthetic drugs in 2019 after

a bad experience of ecstasy with sysco foods. and i actually just took part of a pell and then it felt like my rib cage had closed up and i felt like i couldn't breathe. we were on the dance floor at that moment, dancing around like crazy, and suddenly i couldn't breathe. and at that moment i really thought, okay, it's came over for me just wasn't, i really felt like i was going to collapse that any moments and never gets up again with the side effects of ecstasy, headache and nausea, vomiting and raised blood pressure. the hot kidneys and liver are also severely burdened. there was a risk of life threatening hypothermia or overheating there around a 120 clubs and berlin. some of them opened from wednesday through sunday on

extended club weekends. drug related emergencies occur regularly. with one thing i have seen before, for example, is that especially women not just dropped in some front room or maybe they're not feeling there. well, maybe they have to throw up, or maybe they're not really responsive. i've also heard about people who were removed because the class didn't want to take responsibility if something happened with at that moment when i was having my band trip, i didn't feel that the club looked off to me at all. and i didn't feel say none of the club staff came over and i think that's incredibly ignorant bond or they don't think it responsibilities with when i look at how some clubs are set up and how they create so many opportunities to take drugs, they look away from the dark corners where people are using and yeah,

it's absolutely the clubs, responsibility, absolutely. sanford, from club since 2018 the drug prevention project. so not taken it upon itself to make night life in berlin. safer at the beginning of an event. the team organizes and information booth in the clubs for a few hours and speaks directly with guests. they distribute information flies about various substances and offer individual counseling to promote low risk consumption, safer sniffing packs, laid out with sniff, achieves, and sinus cleaners. the club staff also receive support. soon off is a full range of training including house, give 1st aid and drug related emergencies. rudy gosh, mancha is a policy and public health scientist and has been active in the narcotics field for over 25 years. here as

a crooked poem and it's not who leased the club staff is. of course, very important for athens, good player, very important partners either because they to have a very, very crucial responsibility. concent heightened hom, via, in a sense they have a duty to care for their guests leases, and of course they want those guesses to have a great time to this party. a lead me, i'll have mucus void in addition to root gush mocha. the project is facilitated by roman der inches from the berlin club commission, other not really fast food from slit. when i looked on the him, of course we would like to see all clubs participating in these prevention program often are the 2 i feel bad enough about the fact is that we are still operating in illegal territory, which i've often kind of mentioned lie. you cannot expect everybody to happily accept that activities are happening on business premises that could have legal consequences for them. i'm pissed off in the officer. 115 couldn't participate

you in the program is voluntary from the clubs. so far, so north, coordinating regularly with 15 clubs, 15 out of a 120 and even just getting there, it's been a long process. the old novice ones as union does yet so much for denita . le, we've seen for many years that we, the netherlands, switzerland, austria land and some other european regions. and countries were met with resistance to new methods. mother was there still a bit controversial and haven't yet been fully tested in practice pox? there isn't yet enough evidence to prove their effectiveness. the visa does seem bookish. i'm absolute. wilson's m m m o plus we have a federalist structure here in germany, which should actually enable this nobody to another. or then people inevitably want to pass it to the federal level again, of people, the problem there is survive. there's no real framework gadgianno kind of meeting. and so it just gets put on the back burner fates of us of mars that a sense of the longer punctual the case of jennifer,

the american tourist who died of an ecstasy overdose. him per coin shows that a night of partying on drugs can, in the worst case also, and fatally some targets or 5 can in my posse. um, most of the guts, tragic cases can happen at any time for me. so we have to be clear about that, but when it comes to hillary, which is just not true, that ecstasy, for example, is now a completely safe drug. and that such things can't happen mostly. and in the end, i have to be very aware that if i take drug handle them, i can end badly, essentially, to mention deanna. when someone buys an ecstasy template, they have no idea what they're getting. it could contain several different substances with similar effect profiles. probably every dothan or even more than that is gambling. i gambling with your own life and deal as it i can yell and de la does blow from him at the end of the school. just office and he best and pin,

and the so to be shank 9 are by 2 tylenol fairly glowed systems. all men not to it is by to has duluth. often that always does it, joe, does it said a fresh dental policy that had a limit on when someone wants to try ecstasy for the 1st time. they often don't realize that in recent years, the average concentration of the active ingredient is increased significantly on the tablets to day a much bigger than they were just 10 years ago. just one tablets can lead to an overdose. and jennifer's case, it was an 11 fold overdose of m. d. m a that led to her death. in an interview with the weekly magazine, the spiegel, her husband carlo reported that jennifer taken to ecstasy, tablets and berkeley. v as truth. and just like on the tourist that comes to the city, but maybe they know a bit about drugs because they already regularly used them at home. then they come here where the drugs may have different qualities, different quantities,

different concentrations and different active ingredients than they're used to. and on. and so i think because of this unfortunate ignorance, hundreds of little tragic cases can happen again. and again, i've just learned targeting for income is the death of the young american women and back on an isolated case. in 2018, there were 4 more am dea, my related fatalities in the burden club, c, 2019. there were none. notable as the 3 of the 4 fatalities were, people from other european countries roman sham off who worked as a bartender in berkeley for 8 years is too bewildered. what he thinks about jennifer's case. as means 1st income. i couldn't imagine something like that happening in that place. i was totally shocked with us with what exactly happened on the night of her death and per kinds ro much remains on clear. i know that's kind of back on for this vehicle. i'm young. you have it on one hand of her

kind can protest are we confiscated her drugs before she came in the hallway fulfilled our responsibilities for if you can turn around and buy the same substances in the bathroom at berg, hine, something but of course, and that's another story that to this nish and one could say that bo, kind of as a certain responsibility for that, that's, that's back 100 with mid, far unfortunate. i find, as i've said, that you can never be rid of all the drugs, but i from the shower from that point of view. berkeley has not dealt with this situation completely irresponsibly fine for this meeting. but as in many other cases, they won't comment on it. commented and they're not interested in backing us and our aims on the on team are fun in the looking stack. the com. the book on employee hesitated before calling the ambulance. would jennifer of survived? she had been taken to a hospital earlier. according to the berlin public prosecutor's office,

now the investigation into the berkeley employee was dropped in 2018. very little is known about the composition of the drug she took. in contrast to other major european cities, germany does not yet have a drug checking system to check for active ingredient content and composition. so consumers can avoid overdosing and toxic ingredients that is now supposed to change, at least in berlin. lou in the survey and drug consumption in the berlin club scene, 86 percent of clubs, would willingly have the chemical composition of their drugs checked. and studies from switzerland when drug checking has been in place since the early 2 thousands also confirm it's positive effects. 90 percent of party goes there who have their

drugs checked, use less or none of the tested drugs if they receive a substance warning. so the policy will go on. but the question is, how should it continue? does a fire? and i'll spend as frontier case, even though it was 4 years ago, remains an important point and an important break in the whole narrative about the totality of berlin club life, guns higher from this perspective. and it is of course important that we continue to talk about it and talk about suppression. luckily am in schism to our is the, our do not machine. what is that i life as a whole is very dynamic of told, new substances are always popping up or becoming more prevalent because of gabe's. even. we have to navigate this complexity and build awareness owned even zone before signed off. it's a shuffle dust as we have to be smart, i'm sorry to be informed. and we have to know how to significantly reduce the risks

inherent and drug consumption. music and bomb chromosome door to shuttled soccer is for to mr. to spill he not part of it, and i hope that berlin's party scene can really become a place that not only helps you feel free, but that is also really becomes a safe space. and odds does a shot good? ah ah ah ah deep emotion with magnificent voices. oh no, no, no, no, no, no. oh, musical messages ah grand fundraiser for the term and aids foundation.

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