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RE: Riots, Raves, Human Rights & Criminal Justice Bills (On the frontline of the UK's Free Festival & Illegal rave culture)

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Great memories for some not so much for others, I travelled with a girl during the early 90's who had been a friend of Leah Betts. The tragedy had her look at the life she and her fiends were leading at that that time and she had decided she needed out so she left the country and it probably saved her from a similar fate. The whole scene was one that really passed me by as I had already left on my travels but the stories she recounted made me glad I had taken no part. Doesn't take much to ruin a good thing. Great post dude. I'm glad your here to tell your tales buddy.

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Hey my friend thanks for the great comment. Yes I can see what you mean but in all honesty 95% of the people I knew at this time have gone on to live very successful lives. I do remember Leah Betts, but I also remember that she was 15 at the time and celebrating a party at her home, the people that supplied those drugs to her should have been strung up :( Personally this was never really about consuming vast quantities of drugs and that's why (apart from the note of caution at the end) I didn't really dwell upon that aspect. This was more about capturing a moment in time for one day those with the memories will be gone. As I wrote in my cancer post I've always been a health freak, hell I've never even smoked cigarettes :D so I kept myself in check. There are always going to be people that become messed up in every avenue of life and indeed some of the people I used to drink at the pub with are now alcoholics.

It's difficult but much like the Teddy Boys, Mods & Rockers and the Punks this was a pivotal moment in the historical culture of British youth rebellion. The rebellion of youth has always scared the authorities, but now many seem to have been funneled off into faux mainstream rebellions and identity politics. And I feel that's far more dangerous to the future of our society :( .. Thanks for the great comment and perspective my friend, and yes I can certainly see where you're coming from.

as far as i am aware, leah betts died due to her being filled with too much water while unconscious - causing her brain to swell.

Hey @ura-soul yes that's correct, I think it was one of the first times she's taken ecstasy and she'd read that you needed to drink lots of water and so ended up drinking about five litres of it. It was a tragic case for sure.

The version I recall is that her family forced water down into her while she was unconscious - which I think is part of why they pushed so hard to demonise ecstacy.. avoiding responsibility for their own actions.

You may very well be right as that was from memory and you know what Chinese whispers can be like in such events. It was certainly a sad waste of a young life :(

Yes, definitely - ultimately I obviously wasn't there, so don't know for sure and I don't remember exactly where I heard that version, but it makes sense to me.