DanceSafe turned 20 this year! And in those twenty years, we’ve enhanced countless lives through peer education and direct outreach. We’ve distributed thousands of pieces of unbiased, fact-based drug and sexual health literature, hundred of thousands of free condoms and ear plugs, and prevented countless medical transports by offering onsite drug checking to festival attendees.
After a hiatus, Bay Area DanceSafe is back in action! Bay Area DanceSafe was the first ever DanceSafe Chapter founded in 1998 so it’s especially fitting that the Chapter is revived as DanceSafe celebrates its 20th birthday this year. Bay Area DanceSafe will provide services at events in the SF Bay Area, Santa Cruz, and the surrounding areas.
A round, white pharmaceutical style tablet with “RP” on one side and “10 325” on the other was sold as Percocet but tested as just Acetaminophen (Tylenol). The tablet was sourced and submitted to EcstasyData.org from Cincinnati, OH.
A yellow bar tablet with three score lines and “R | 0 | 3 | 9” appearing on one side was sold as Xanax but tested as 4-chloro-alpha-PVP (“4C-PVP”) and N-Ethylpentylone, both cathinones. The tablet was sourced and submitted to EcstasyData.org from Houston, TX.
An orange, oval tablet sold as Adderall and submitted to EcstasyData.org from San Jose, CA, tested as Methamphetamine. The pill had imprinted on one side “b” and “974” with break lines, and on the back “-3|0-”, resembling a prescription 30mg Adderall tablet. However, this pill is counterfeit.
A community member has submitted information to DanceSafe regarding a substance sourced by a “friend of a friend” in the San Francisco, CA Bay Area that is being marketed and sold as ketamine, described as a “white powder, fluffy, not dissimilar from cocaine.” Tests from reagents are inconclusive and did not identify the substance as Ketamine.
An off-white, slightly peach-colored Telsa with orange specks and a score line on the back was expected to be MDMA but tested as mostly caffeine (5 active parts) with some methamphetamine (1 active part). The tablet was sourced and submitted to EcstasyData.org from Los Angeles, CA.
A blue Nemo tablet sold as MDMA in Houston, TX tested as equal parts caffeine and methamphetamine. The pressed tablet contains no break line and the same image appears on the front and the back.
We are stoked to announce the official launch of the Twin Cities DanceSafe Chapter! The Chapter will be headed by a stellar leadership team that has a background in harm reduction, drug policy reform, and community organizing.
Today, 9/20, people all of the world are celebrating Psilocybin Awareness Day in honor of a strain of fungus referred to by the late Terence McKenna as “the starborn magic mushroom.”
