drugs I

Burning Man is synonymous with drugs. You go to BM to go do drugs with a bunch of other people doing drugs for the sake of doing drugs, being high, and being more open. Okay, sounds fun. But-

1. Not everyone is high. Booze is far easier to obtain, its used as currency, in a sense. As I am reading, the best gifts are practical ones. What is more practical at a 8 day art/music/party/love/festival/celebration than booze?

2. Lots of Law Enforcement. They smell weed, they search you. You smoke a jay on the playa, you get searched, ticketed (arrested?) fined.

3. Dehydration
This is already an issue for partiers in the relative comfort of a club, much less 100+ degree temps, in bone dry conditions. Under the influence of something that makes it difficult for you to remember to breath? I'm guessing staying hydrated isn't high up on the priority list.

4. The Come down
Coming down off of hallucinogens or E is bad enough when you get to do it at home, in your own bed, with your own food, with your own bathroom and shower, etc. Trying to handle the down: sleep deprived, thirsty, hot, sun-burned, dirty, malnourished, wind-crazed and cranky seems like something that would be on Fear Factor.

With that said, here is a hierarchy of drugs used (as far as I've read)*
1 Booze
2 Pot
3 E
4 Shrooms
5 Acid
6 Opium
7 DMT
...
100 Ayahuasca

Then again, that's true of just about any party/rave/all-night dance/music festival anytime, anywhere.

*(but I don't know yet, haven't been.)