Posted by: BathroomCoffee February 24, 2012
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Indian Ravers ‘High on Snake Bites’
Dehli police seized a half litre of cobra venom and four live snakes last week, after animal rights activists alerted them that revellers were planning to experiment with the poison at parties in the city.
"We had information that some cobra snakes and their venom were to be smuggled to Delhi from Rajasthan so we laid a trap to catch the smuggled snakes,” animal activist Gaurav Gupta told India today.
"Cobras are killed in large numbers and their venom is smuggled to Delhi and NCR to be used in rave parties for doping purposes,” he added. http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/valentines-day-delhi-police-recovers-cobras-venom/1/173400.html#comment
The discovery prompted local newspaper the Daily Pioneer to talk of a ‘neo-rich middle class flirting with death for fun’ in India, suggesting up to 5,000 revellers who would have sampled the venom. The Pioneer was unimpressed, suggesting the sensation seekers were ‘discarding morals in search of the great high’.
“While still esoteric, the use of snake venom as a drug has been documented,” the Pioneer pointed out, “And it reportedly causes feelings of ‘happiness and grandiosity’ for which the drug users remain firmly fixated on the present and do not bother about the future.”
http://www.dailypioneer.com/home/online-channel/394-letters-to-editor/44344-discarding-morals-in-search-of-the-great-high.html
The moral ambiguities of electronic dance music fans were further challenged in India this week, by Congress leader Pramod Madhwaraj following an outdoor party which attracted 500 to the idyllic location of St Mary’s Island in Udupi district.
Carrying out a ‘cleansing’ ritual on the island, Madhwaraj appeared less than impressed with the behaviour of the mainly Western revellers who partied to music provided by DJs and iconic psy-trance legends Juno Reactor.
“The obscene dances held here have desecrated the soil,” Madhwaraj told reporters who witnessed his impromptu quasi religious ceremony. (http://www.indianexpress.com/news/rant-after-the-rave/913812/0 )
tp://m1e.net/c?79654374-O5s4yzyGn8C7g%407262339-Dv9CVWbCejEjI (Spitting cobras)
Dehli police seized a half litre of cobra venom and four live snakes last week, after animal rights activists alerted them that revellers were planning to experiment with the poison at parties in the city.
"We had information that some cobra snakes and their venom were to be smuggled to Delhi from Rajasthan so we laid a trap to catch the smuggled snakes,” animal activist Gaurav Gupta told India today.
"Cobras are killed in large numbers and their venom is smuggled to Delhi and NCR to be used in rave parties for doping purposes,” he added. http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/valentines-day-delhi-police-recovers-cobras-venom/1/173400.html#comment
The discovery prompted local newspaper the Daily Pioneer to talk of a ‘neo-rich middle class flirting with death for fun’ in India, suggesting up to 5,000 revellers who would have sampled the venom. The Pioneer was unimpressed, suggesting the sensation seekers were ‘discarding morals in search of the great high’.
“While still esoteric, the use of snake venom as a drug has been documented,” the Pioneer pointed out, “And it reportedly causes feelings of ‘happiness and grandiosity’ for which the drug users remain firmly fixated on the present and do not bother about the future.”
http://www.dailypioneer.com/home/online-channel/394-letters-to-editor/44344-discarding-morals-in-search-of-the-great-high.html
The moral ambiguities of electronic dance music fans were further challenged in India this week, by Congress leader Pramod Madhwaraj following an outdoor party which attracted 500 to the idyllic location of St Mary’s Island in Udupi district.
Carrying out a ‘cleansing’ ritual on the island, Madhwaraj appeared less than impressed with the behaviour of the mainly Western revellers who partied to music provided by DJs and iconic psy-trance legends Juno Reactor.
“The obscene dances held here have desecrated the soil,” Madhwaraj told reporters who witnessed his impromptu quasi religious ceremony. (http://www.indianexpress.com/news/rant-after-the-rave/913812/0 )
tp://m1e.net/c?79654374-O5s4yzyGn8C7g%407262339-Dv9CVWbCejEjI (Spitting cobras)