Music influence people to take drug?

I just realised that above the article about the schoolgirl with ketamine was the news about "Night fever at the council- Techno music played at meeting to plug for more disco licences..." where MPK enforcement, business and health department director Zulkifli Majid, proposing tge increase in disco licences.

Rubbish Rubbish Rubbish!!!

Do they see what will happened if more license to be given out? It will only encourage more young people to hang around places in pub and disco, where more drugs, more AIDS, more crime, bringing destruction to our country. Oh I see, i bet he was thinking that techno music can make youths a healthier person!! (rolling eyes)

Whether we would admit it or not? that techno music will have influence upon us, our thoughts, our behaviors, our values!

ARTICLE: RECREATION DRUG USE AND RISK ESTIMATION
BY: Johanne Korsdal Sørensen

Techno events sometimes take place at legal music venues, such as discotheques
and other licensed premises, but they may also take the form of illegal,
underground parties at unlicensed locations such as abandoned factory buildings.
Some of these events are large-scale parties involving up to one thousand
participants; others are smaller private gatherings. During my research I
participated in both kinds of events. So-called “after-parties” are either relaxing
intermezzos between two parties, or represent the termination of a techno party.
On these occasions “blunting” drugs (cannabis, benzodiazepines and others) are
often taken in order to counteract the intoxicating effect of the “uppers” taken
during the main event.3 In other words, recreational drug users tend to use
“uppers” to speed up the tempo and stay awake during the techno events
themselves, but finish off the party by taking tranquillisers and blunting drugs in
order to calm down and get back to the ordinary rhythm of day and night. These
phenomena appear to be characteristic of techno culture globally (Carrington &
Wilson 2002, 85).

The international diffusion of these various techno genres has been accompanied
by a similar exchange and development of dancing techniques and ways of
partying, including the use of drugs. Thus techno fans globally are now well
informed about the particular use of drugs in relation to techno music. My
informants told me about travelling to the “Ministry of Sound” in England, to the
“Love Parade” in Germany, and to locations in Ibiza, Goa and elsewhere to
participate in major techno events. They and others like them are among the
couriers who have brought techno and a new kind of recreational drug use to
Denmark, and in turn spread knowledge of the scene in Denmark to other venues
elsewhere in the world.

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Noted that this articles was 16 pages long and I was only quoted two paragraph, please read through the whole context and find more information about it.

http://www.nad.fi/pdf/46/6%20Korsdal%20Sorensen.pdf

Personally, in my own view. Techno music does influenced young people to do drug.

Mr Zulkilfi, please be wise in your decision.