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A local dance music enthusiast is today being urged to have a good long think about the dangers that can come from putting recreational drugs in her system.

Christina Maley (18) from Betoota Heights has today been forced to consider the off-chance that the drugs she has bought for this weekend might cause her critical harm. Which is not what recreational drugs traditionally do to the hundreds of thousands of young Australians who experiment with them every weekend.

This means that her real concern is that the drugs she has bought are not actually the drugs she thought she was buying, because those type of drugs make her feel good and dance. Which, at 18-years-old, is her idea of fun – after a lifetime of watching her dad drink 10 cans of Tooheys Old on a Saturday and yell at an NRL referee on the television.

After waiting up with just one other friend until two in the morning for the MDMA tablets to arrive in the glovebox of a Subaru WRX STI 5 door, driven by a friend of a friend who has tattoos on his face and a pretty obvious affiliation with local motorcycling enthusiasts, Christina is now torn between whether she risks her own safety by taking part in the well-documented Australian drug scene.

As she arrives at the grounds of a local music festival with friends, her decision is made even harder after several fifty-something politicians who don’t appear to have ever had any fun in their lives warned her against the possible dangers of taking some of those magic beans.

“If only there was a way to know if these were safe” she said, while looking around.

After literally no one around her is able to offer a proper answer, Christina says oh well and dumps two of them.

At time of press she was seen having fun and keeping hydrated, which is a good result but also one that could have been assured through the help of a non-for-profit Christian volunteer with a swab.