Michael Holden
As the Bay Area turns into a vacant desert and a patch of Nevada desert turns into a massive Bay Area party, those heading to Burning Man today and over the next week probably aren’t thinking much about law enforcement. But if past burns are any indication, maybe they should be. According to the Associated Press, about 300 people got cited at Burning Man last year, about 65 percent for possession of some sort of drug. And some 1,900 burners have been cited since 2001. (Those figures apply only to citations made by the Bureau of Land Management at the event–there are no totals for burners getting searched or stopped on the way from California to Nevada, where, incidentally, marijuana possession can be a felony.)