Late on Tuesday, April 8, a Senate and House Conference Committee, without a hearing, public notice or a debate in Congress, attached the Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act (formerly known as the RAVE Act) to the Amber Alert Bill (a child abduction bill).

It is not too late to stop the bill - Fax your senators. The main floor fight is likely to take place in the Senate in the next 12-24 hours so do it NOW.

http://actioncenter.drugpolicy.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=1578

Representatives John Conyers (D-MI) and Bobby Scott (D-VA) valiantly opposed this sneaky effort to pass controversial legislation. Unfortunately they were outvoted and RAVE Act provisions did become part of the bill. These provisions make it clear that "crackhouse laws" apply to temporary events, such as concerts, dances or festivals, and add civil penalties of up to $250,000 to the statute. If passed, property owners can be punished for any drug offense that their customers commit - even if they work hard to stop such offenses. This is likely to deter nightclub and stadium owners from holding events.

With your help we will continue to fight to remove the RAVE Act provisions from the AMBER Alert legislation, even if the Senate and House act and the President signs the bill into law. We urge you to take immediate action.

Basically in essence this bill will fine any manager promoter property owner etc hundreds of thousands of dollars and a possible 20 years in jail just for people using drugs at events even though they have taken every precaution to stop drug users at events. Its like saying that the people at music fest at least one person will probably smoke marijuana so because of that one person the fest will be shut down and they will get heavily fined. How is that fair? Im not saying that I want to promote drug use but it is inevitable that at every event someone is bound to do it. This law will infringe on the rights of us all. It was first set out to stop raves but now it will stop much more than that. This is our way of life and they have to be stopped we need to spread the word. With all of the war stuff going on people aren't noticing everything else the government is trying to do. We must all be united for this cause because it not only affects ravers is affects everyone. Please consider letting your users know what is going on we don't have much time the bill is almost a law. The bill is going to the floor within 12-24 hours. United we Stand and Divided we Fall!!