Security guard drugged with LSD, GHB at Shambhala Music Festival

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If it was for sexual assault purposes why put LSD in it?? Wonder if it was a mistake? Do people mix GHB and LSD? Doesn't sound like a good combo to me. This festival is the one time a year certain harder to get drugs are available to me, I send people off with money every year, I hope stupid shit doesn't get it cancelled. It actually has free on site drug testing, I assume that's how they knew what it was right away.

Security guard drugged with LSD, GHB at Shambhala Music Festival



By Dan Fumano, The Province August 16, 2013 11:15 AM

A security guard at the Shambhala Music Festival was dosed with a dangerous drug cocktail Monday, requiring emergency medical care that “saved her life.”

The incident occurred after the guard was given a sealed bottle of water containing a high concentration of GHB and LSD, according to an open letter from Shambhala’s director of public safety, posted Wednesday to the festival’s Facebook page.

“The guard was rushed to our medical facility where she received acute medical care,” wrote festival director Barry R. Wilding. “If not for our medical team, we are not certain what the outcome might have been. Suffice to say, they saved her life.”

Festival management was not immediately available for comment Friday, but confirmed by email that the guard had recovered and was doing all right.

RCMP confirmed that the incident is the subject of an active investigation, and that they have the water bottle in question and will be performing tests on it.

Billed as “Canada’s premier Electronic Music Festival,” Shambhala has been an annual fixture in Salmo, B.C. in the West Kootenays since 1998, attracting an estimated 10,000 guests.

Every year, a level of recreational drug use is evident at the festival, said RCMP Insp. Nick Romanchuk, said officer in charge of the Kootenay Boundary Regional Detachment.

“It’s certainly the largest festival that we have in the area, and likely the one that generates the most issues for us,” said Romanchuk.

Romanchuk said that local RCMP has had a “cooperative, professional” relationship with Shambhala festival management.

According to an RCMP statement, “Police made over 200 drug seizures consisting Cannabis (marihuana), Hash, Cocaine, MDMA (Ecstasy), Ketamine, Methadone and other drugs ... There are several drug charges being recommended for Possession For the Purpose of Trafficking.”

In his open letter on Facebook, Shambhala director Wilding called for anyone with information about the incident to come forward. He praised the efforts of Shambhala’s security staff and wrote that in the past, they have dealt with “weapons, drug traffickers, gangsters, being assaulted, being verbally abused and so much more that goes unnoticed.”

http://www.theprovince.com/news/Sec...h+Shambhala+Music+Festival/8798387/story.html
 
Incidents such as this are why we can't have nice things. Anybody that doses someone against their will is a grade A cunt and deserves a major fucking kicking. I'm not normally so sweary in DiTM, but this really boils my piss.
 
Might be a small chance it is propagandist b.s. but I agree with ^^ you on principle.
 
According to an RCMP statement, “Police made over 200 drug seizures consisting Cannabis (marihuana), Hash, Cocaine, MDMA (Ecstasy), Ketamine, Methadone and other drugs ... There are several drug charges being recommended for Possession For the Purpose of Trafficking.”
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My friend attended this year and said the vehicle searches at the gate that turned up small amounts of drugs were just destroyed and only large amounts had the police involved. I guess clogging a small towns court system is something they want to avoid. I haven't seen the annual RCMP press release with the table of drugs they had the last two years. People improve their drug hiding abilities it might have been a bad year for the cops.
And I also think now this was likely just revenge on security, not a mistake or attempted sex assault. I am passing the link on to everyone I knew who went, no one can get away in the internet age.
 
Ms. Security guard took the drugs herself. Anyone who has tasted ghb even diluted into a bottle of water notices the violent flavour. She didnt want to lose her job so she said she was dosed.
I could be wrong... But come on!
 
^ bullshit

what kind of person chooses to take acid and juice WHILE working as a security guard at a festival.... 8)
 
It's possible she knowingly took it herself I suppose, though it does seem like an unlikely combo to take while you're working.

I don't understand what the motivation to unwittingly drug people could be. If the bottles were sealed, it looks as if someone has made a real effort to trick people. But what's the pay off? These sort of claims do smell of media hype, so perhaps this bottle was part of someone's personal stash, and just got into the wrong hands. I've resealed bottles to take into festivals before simply because bottles are checked at the door and any unsealed ones thrown out.

I do think lsd and g is an amazing combo, but taking it unknowingly would be the stuff of nightmares.
 
footscrazy said:
I don't understand what the motivation to unwittingly drug people could be. If the bottles were sealed, it looks as if someone has made a real effort to trick people. But what's the pay off? .
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They have piles of confiscated drugs and alcohol, there are a few people who hate them. Drug dealers who may have had business disrupted by them might want revenge. The guards there have been assaulted in the past, this is much sneakier than an actual physical attack.
 
Either way the guards gotta be pretty dumb IMO, GHB in plain water has a pretty strong taste even at lower level concentrations and a security officer working at a fest well known for drugs should really know better than to swallow funky tasting water from a random bottle. Also life in danger? Bullshit, she would have had to take a huge dose of GHB to be in danger and since it doesn't even mention unconsciousness I doubt she even dosed to high, but who knows. Lastly who gets revenge by wasting more of their own drugs, nonsensical.... Plus giving someone GHB is not revenge, its a gift!;););) Of course I jest but I have a feeling this story probably isn't as written and if it is...well its pretty god damn stupid.
 
I've been there 3 times and the security guards there aren't really concerned with "small" quantities of drugs people bring in. They are more looking for people that are there to sell. I've been searched before with a small amount and they let me in and same with other friends but if they find booze they will confiscate it.

I don't see the reason to mix LSD and GHB in the same bottle. What if you just wanted LSD?

Also I must give props to their medical team, the one year I freaked out on a RC (5-meo-dipt) and weed they helped me out big time. Very professional.
 
^ bullshit

what kind of person chooses to take acid and juice WHILE working as a security guard at a festival....
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I would do this. I've done mxe and 2c-c whilst directing traffic at a music festival..... amazing experience.
 
I once read that the sodium salt of GHB has a terrible taste but that the free acid is flavorless. Is this true?

edit: and by "free acid" I mean the GHB molecule, not the LSD that this person received for no charge.
 
We heard on site that it was GHB, but I didn't know there was also LSD in it. Even if there was, I doubt she was experiencing it. When she got to first aid she was barely breathing.

It's sad how much this article focuses on the bad. There were 14,000 people there this year and only a dozen or less people were kicked out. Nobody died from a drug related incident.

With a proper harm reduction system in place, society could become close to a paradise. But instead the article just wants to focus on the busts, all the shit that went wrong in previous years, etc. It's a real discredit to the hard work and positive outcomes we are seeing at Shambhala's HR department.
 
Mysterie said:
^ bullshit

what kind of person chooses to take acid and juice WHILE working as a security guard at a festival.... 8)
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Almost all the people I know working as security, or event staff take drugs whilst they are ON shift. I dont know, but in the UK if you agree to work at the festival you gain free entry....
 
Mendo_K said:
Almost all the people I know working as security, or event staff take drugs whilst they are ON shift. I dont know, but in the UK if you agree to work at the festival you gain free entry....
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At Shambhala if you are caught being high on shift you will be blacklisted from ever volunteering again. If you are dealing drugs you'll be banned from the festival itself.

The only exception is smoking a bit of weed. It takes the edge off of those 12 hour stints. It's technically not allowed but the Kootenays are the pot capital of Canada so it's pretty status quo in that regard.
 
Doctor_Ew420 said:
Ms. Security guard took the drugs herself. Anyone who has tasted ghb even diluted into a bottle of water notices the violent flavour. She didnt want to lose her job so she said she was dosed.
I could be wrong... But come on!
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I was thinking the same thing. Festival goers are notoriously stingy and I couldn't imagine one of those wallabies giving up "valuable LSD and GHB" to dose some random security guard against there will. I guess it 'could' happen but i think she probably took the drugs herself not realizing what she was taking and/or the dose she was taking them at.. that's more plausible then her being randomly dosed by a dumb electro-head festival goer lol
 
Either way the guards gotta be pretty dumb IMO, GHB in plain water has a pretty strong taste even at lower level concentrations and a security officer working at a fest well known for drugs should really know better than to swallow funky tasting water from a random bottle.
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Yeah i've never had ghb, but i've heard it's really foul tasting, surely in a bottle of water you would really notice that kind of unusual taste?
 
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