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The Bunk Police
The Bunk Police is a non-profit organization that travels across North American music festivals, expanding the knowledge of the harm reduction movement to youth. The Bunk Police was founded in May of 2011 by Adam Auctor whose real name remains anonymous as with other contributing founding members.

The success of the Bunk Police is built upon its volunteers who set up at American EDM music festivals to distribute non-biased or judgmental education of the harmful effects of drug use. When approached The Bunk Police will give youth’s further insight of the effects and risks affiliated with various drugs as well as giving the option to test the content of any numerous drug held by the user themselves.

The Bunk Police’s founder Adam Auctor as well as many other community’s associated with music festivals claim that his organization has saved thousands of young lives by educating them and preventing youths from taking harmful narcotics.

Test Kits
The Bunk Police’s founder Auctor came across the inspiration of drug testing kits from similar organization DanceSafe, which were only made for ecstasy pill testing kits. So Auctor went beyond that and with the help of leftover student loans and donations he purchased testing kits from a forensic supply company. The original testing kits were formed from the idea of police supply kits that could test about anything from PCP (Phencyclidine) to LSD(Lysergic Acid Diethylamide) By January 2012 the Bunk Police were selling Marquis test kits online.

What's In My Baggie?
The Documentary What’s In My Baggie? Brought a lot of attention to The Bunk Police and their goal to bring awareness of harmful drug use. Created by Kyle Peters, Jeffrey Chambers, Jordan Fisher, and Rachel Benbrook the goal with this film was to expose the truth about the rise of dangerously misrepresented substances while simultaneously providing a well-rounded critique of ineffective drug policy. The film is taken place at American music festival where majority of harmful drug use takes place. Most commonly seen in the documentary is the unawareness of youth in the dangers of the invasion of new drugs. Today in the United States there are so many different psychoactive substances floating through the United States that people don’t even realize how complicated things have become.

Government Complications
The greatest issue that the Bunk police run into is under certain US legislation law they are not allowed to sell self-testing drug kits on festival grounds. Under the RAVE Act, formally known as the Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act, similar to the Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act “by allowing test kits to be sold they’re acknowledging that there’s drug use and not taking preventable measure, but a harm-reduction measure”, which goes against the legislations purpose “… to prohibit an individual from knowingly opening, maintaining, managing, controlling, renting, leasing, making available for use, or profiting from any place for the purpose of manufacturing, distributing, or using any controlled substance, and for other purpose”. The Bunk Police continue to spread their message by educating adolescence and approaching them with social media as well as their website.