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The excitement of partying at a rave has recently become the ultimate trend for young adults and teens to come together as one in a small or very large venue. With loud trance and techno music blasting through the sound systems, display of  “trippy” art, professional dancers, performers and extreme visual light shows, are set up to attract hundreds, even thousands of people to attend. These types of raves are made for a once in a lifetime experience.

With all of the enticing facts on how much a rave can be an adventure,  a lot of parents and guardians are ignorant of the disturbing consequences towards the experience that their young teen will have at a rave.  A rave is a party that is meant to last from the day to the next morning, which is more of a reason for the attendees to use drugs in order to have the increased energy to have fun the entire time. Even if the rave is advertised as a “drug-free” environment, that is never the case when many people who are at the tip of having a great time, find themselves in the emergency room, getting hospitalized for a drug overdose.

Raves have been the hype of the underground scene since the 1980′s until the recent years of the new generation of “party kids” started to rant about how the scene is the “new trend“. Since the years of massive raves started to breakthrough, such as Together As One, Monster Massive, Nocturnal Festival, and especially Electric Daisy Carnival. The music of electronic, techno, and progressive house are not only heard from someone’s play list or party, but simply can be heard on the radio. This is making  more people interested in the party scene and gives them the desire to go to a rave.

For this year’s 2010 massive rave, Electric Daisy Carnival, which is the largest music festival for the United States, has had a long run of being hosted at the Los Angeles Coliseum, Sports Arena and Exposition Park for the past 14 years. With public promotion online and billboards by Insomniac events, EDC ventured into everyone’s mind to attend the most popular rave of the year. With the trend of raves being apart of somehow in every young person’s life, EDC was the place where you had to be at. With the age limit set 16 and over, you would find young teens at the rave under the influence of some drug, mostly ecstasy.

The Electric Daisy Carnival was held for two days June 25th and 26th, where there was an account of over 200,000 people that attended this year’s rave. With the expense of so many people accompanied at EDC, there was a report of carnival go-ers that  had to be raced to the emergency room for cases of injuries from rushing gates and drug overdoses. On one special account, a 15-year-old girl who attended EDC was reported deceased after an overdose of ecstasy.

The media was all over the story of the 15-year-old overdosing at a rave mainly because it was supposed to be 16 and over age limit. With all of the beginning negative protest against raves, there is now a discretion of 18 and over with a valid ID. For the young teens its very disappointing news, but according to 24-year-old aspiring artist, Patricia Romine, who went to this year’s EDC,” Its something that they should have done a long time ago, raves aren’t meant for young kids who don’t know what to expect.” Patricia said. With all of the negative press on how raves are dangerous for teens, the aspect of a rave is something that a mature adult can fully enjoy for themselves, by forgetting all worries and stress in their lives for one night of endless fun. However, raves are considered to be dangerous on many different levels and shouldn’t be meant for the young.