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Lawlessness Ruins Jazzfest
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n678/a04.html
Newshawk: chip
Pubdate: Wed, 05 May 2004
Source: Times-Picayune, The (LA)
Copyright: 2004 The Times-Picayune
Contact: letters@timespicayune.com
Website: http://www.nola.com/t-p/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/848
Author: Nick Simonette
LAWLESSNESS RUINS JAZZFEST
I took my family to Jazzfest Saturday and was shocked at the rampant use
of drugs throughout the event.
It has been years since I attended a Jazzfest. I decided to attend
this year when my son visited us from Texas. I was there Sunday
with my wife, son and two daughters, and we witnessed people openly
smoking marijuana all around us. We also saw a group who appeared
to be snorting cocaine.
The crowd got fairly rough, and I was forced to take my family out of
there before something happened. Is this really the impression we
want visitors to have of the Jazzfest?
It appeared to me that the police were more concerned with traffic
outside than lawlessness on the grounds. As a native New Orleanian,
I am embarrassed and disappointed, to say the least.
Nick Simonette
Baton Rouge
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