Carlos Paulos

4motion asbl . PIPAPO – Sex, Drugs & Rock’n Roll | Luxembourg (LU)

Lecture:
Just can’t get enough. Depicting recreational drug use with drug checking service.

People are People. Everybody knows when you are going to a rock concert that everybody is drinking beer, when you are going to a rave that everybody is taking pills and when you are attending a reggae venue that everybody is smoking marihuana.

Nowadays, these stereotyped and conservative consumption patterns changed for some of the party population encountered at the PIPAPO booth. Simultaneously, our interventions in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg are covering three days festivals lining up a large Broadbent of different artists and a huge variety in the music styles and ambience offered. During these events, our drug checking service is collecting samples of cannabis, pills, amphetamine, cocaine and different hallucinogens.

While the samples are prepared for analyze using a semi directed interview data has been collected about the presumed substance (i.e. price, purchase market, country) and also his experiences and motivations. The consumption patterns observed at different kind of events during the season 2016 and 2017 are presented and discussed.