Festival Harm Reduction

Harm Reduction at Secret Dreams: Bunk Police 2025 Recap

Bringing Harm Reduction to Secret Dreams Music Festival This past July, our team traveled to the rolling hills of Legend Valley, Ohio, for Secret Dreams Festival 2025 to help bring harm reduction tools and education directly to the community. Secret Dreams Music & Arts Festival is an immersive, multi‑genre weekend event. Founded in 2022, it blends electronic,...

Testing for Ketamine? Avoid These Common Mistakes

Ketamine, the dissociative anesthetic used in medical, therapeutic, and recreational spaces, is only growing in popularity. With the rising prevalence of its use, and the frequency of its presence, the importance of accurately testing ketamine and flagging potential adulterants is greater than ever. Ketamine Drug Test When testing for ketamine, we recommend a package of multiple reagents,...

Electric Forest 2025: Bunk Police Recap

The Bunk Police has had a long, and at times rocky, history with Electric Forest. In many ways, we consider it the birthplace of The Bunk Police. Our founder, Adam, first attended in 2011, carrying a single backpack of test kits, and the intention to test as many substances as possible for anyone who might...

What Happened at EDC Las Vegas 2025?

We kicked off the 2025 festival season a little differently this year. Time zones away from our home bases—our team traveled to EDC Las Vegas 2025, the largest electronic dance music festival in North America—to bring drug testing kits to one of the events that needs them most. The EDC Las Vegas Experience   EDC Las Vegas...

All about Gel Tabs, Blotter, & Liquid LSD: What to Know Before You Drop

We all know about LSD—the head-spinning, creativity-boosting, hallucinogenic whirlwind of a psychedelic staple, synthesized in 1938 by Albert Hofmann. This drug has inspired political movements, invoked groundbreaking artistic moments, and led to massive cultural shifts. But despite its popularity, there is a surprising amount of variation in something as simple as how it looks and...

EDM Festivals 2024: What Standards Should Every Festival Maintain?

After visiting some of the biggest music festivals in the U.S., we’ve discovered what’s led to success, and what’s seriously lacking. Accessible Hydration Stations Clean, plentiful, accessible, free-of-charge water. It seems obvious that water should be readily available at events charging hundreds of dollars per ticket, yet some festivals still seem to struggle with getting the formula...

Before You Nexus Flip, Here’s What to Know

Nexus flipping—the synergistic love child of 2C-B and MDMA—is growing in popularity once again, and bringing 2C-B to the main stage. Many credit this pairing to Alexander Shulgin, the famed “Godfather of Ecstasy,” who wrote about his experience synthesizing and taking 2C-B for the first time in 1974, before it became a popular party drug...

Exploring the Impact of Seasonal Changes on Drug Use

As temperatures drop day by day, holiday music begins drifting down grocery store aisles, and decorations suddenly appear on every house down the street…an undeniable shift in social and cultural patterns start unfolding all around us. But what about within us? How do our behaviors change? What connotations come along with “the most wonderful time...