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LEAKED DOCUMENTS SHOW HOW THE DEA DESCRIBES CLUB CULTURE

“Glow sticks are sold at gas stations”...

A leaked document entitled The Rave and Club Culture/Designer Drugs that was issued by the Drug Enforcement Agency in 2001 has leaked online, offering a hilarious insight into a retired detectives decade of attending raves.

The document includes a number of enlightening descriptions of ravers and club culture, including how to spot trance music (“gentle, but fast”) and how “ravers drink Red Bull...because there is caffeine in it”. New officers are also given a potted lesson of “rave culture and history”:

In fact, even a new DEA officer attending a rave for the first time would have no trouble knowing what kind of music they were listening to with this handy genre guide:

The report also attempts to classify some subsets of “ravers”, including an insight into why old ravers aren’t seen as suspicious:

Before ending on “PLUR”, the buzzword on nobody’s lips: