The New Grateful Dead Coming To Las Vegas This Week

Something called the Electric Daisy Carnival is coming to Las Vegas and more specifically the Las Vegas Motor Speedway and it is expected to draw around 200,000 people during the weekend.
From the LVRJ: Event promoter Insomniac is now bringing the carnival to Las Vegas and taking a "zero tolerance" stance on drug use. The event will arrive Friday for three days of sundown-to-sunup dancing at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. About 80,000 ravers -- most in their 20s -- are expected to fill the field and stadium each night.
But can the drug defining the dance culture be pulled from it, or are the two too tightly tied?
The main event of the traveling rave has always been in Los Angeles, bringing carnival rides, multiple stages, DJs, artists and elaborate light shows. But, under pressure, it was forced to leave L.A. because of the girl's death and about 230 people who needed emergency medical treatment last year.
"You'd see a person being wheeled out on a stretcher every 20 minutes or so," Brian said.
It was a scene repeated Saturday in Dallas where one teenager died and more than two dozen other Electric Daisy Carnival participants were taken to hospitals for drug, alcohol and heat-related issues, according to The Associated Press.
For those reasons, promoters and Las Vegas police know the world's watching this weekend. And they're taking pains to prevent history from repeating itself.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/electric-daisy-carnival-invading-las-vegas-after-recent-problems-124175554.html
Basically, what is coming to Las Vegas is the 2011 version of the Grateful Dead and their Deadheads.
The Grateful Dead dealt with pot, booze, LSD and other drugs and the Daisy Electric Carnival deals with ecstasy, booze and other drugs.
The big difference will probably be the lack of tied dye shirts, long hair, hippie glasses and strange smells coming the pot smokers and the audience in general. That's of course are the Dead Heads, who I have seen but never got close enough to feed them. Many Dead Heads are still in existence.
Instead, you will find drug use by swallowing, dance clothes and people in their 20's.
So, it will be interesting to see what will happen. AMR ambulance will see a big increase in business, the partiers will probably spend some money in Vegas and this will not be the weekend where you rob a store or beat your wife or husband because there will be a big increase of business in CCDC, our local jail, unless they open up the new jail by Nellis AFB for the weekend.
So, welcome to Las Vegas, Electric Daisy Carnival, you probably will be an improvement over Jerry Garcia, the Dead and the Dead Heads.