10 Things I Learned Rawdogging a 4-Day Rave Without Booze or Drugs

10 Things I Learned Rawdogging a 4-Day Rave Without Booze or Drugs

For 15 years, I’d never raved without the aid of a drug like MDMA, 2CB, or ketamine—or, at the very least, a fridge’s worth of booze. Reduce the anxiety, amplify the ecstasy: to me, that was always the whole game. When I first went out ‘dancing’ with school friends, what we engaged in felt like a time-honored rite of passage: take some pills supplied by a friend’s older brother, and listen to upbeat house music while contemplating oblivion. A re…