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These Are The World’s Top 20 Drugs
At the end of last year, Dr Adam Winstock conducted the 2014 Global Drug Survey. It is the largest ever global medical survey of drug use. Government drug policy should not be caught up in a polarized...
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60% Veterans [Updates]
This is going to be one of those long posts with words and graphs and maths and stuff. Ain’t no place for haters here. You might want to keep browsing if you’re looking for happy frou frou stories. If...
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More Math(s)
Our post 60% Veterans has generated some further discussion and analysis. Hunter from the Official BRC Census (2012 variant) came to comment: Hi there, here’s Hunter from the Census Lab. I’m one of the...
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Official BLM Arrest Statistics 2010-2013
This data is from governmentattic.org, in response to a FOIA request. 433 citations last year (71% for drugs) and 6 arrests, out of 69,613 people. That a 0.6% (1 in 160) chance of getting busted at...
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And The Most Popular Camp Is…
Burnerlove is a site linked to Burner Map, which lets your Facebook friends see where you are camped. The folks who brought you BurnerMap love Burners and Burning Man so much we just had to do more!...
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Economic Costs of Burning Man in SF
Fortune magazine has shared some data from local San Francisco merchants who use Square. It looks like Burning Man had a substantial negative impact on businesses in SOMA, the Mission, the Marina, Noe...
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2014 Census Results
The preliminary results are in from the 2014 BlackRock City census. Some key highlights: 62.41% Virgins or Noobz 37.59% Veterans – up from 29%, reflecting the population surge of the last couple of...
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28% Veterans: Virgin Import Continues [Update]
Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: “There are three kinds of...
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Traffic Man 2015: Entry Pain For Thousands
Traffic this year appears to have been among the worst ever. From Voices of Burning Man: We are experiencing significant traffic delays due to slow vehicles on Highway 447. Estimated delays are up to 8...
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Arrests, Citations Up
The new Pershing County Sheriff promised to get the arrest count up from last year, and he’s already delivered – 12 arrests and an unknown number of citations. At least one Burner has been reported...
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2015 Crime Scorecard: Arrests Increased 600% [Update]
Cops at Burning Man, 2012. Image: Simon Pearce | Flickr (Creative Commons) New Sheriff Jerry Allen was reportedly going to crack down on crime at Burning Man this year. When the story hit the media, he...
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Burning Man 2015 By The Numbers Part 2 – Census Highlights
Along with the 2015 Afterburn report, BMOrg released the results of their 2015 Census. I’ve had a chance now to go through this in a bit more detail. Some highlights: There are a lot of dudes (60%)...
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2017 Crime Scorecard
Crime Statistics for previous years: 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 Thanks to Anonymous Burner who sent this in on January 1st – not a day I am usually reading much email, so it slipped through the...
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BURNILEAKS: Sexual Assaults, Missing Kids and Violent Crime
Something that BMorg are always attempting to hush up are the details of the annual arrests. It used to be reported every year in the Reno Gazette-Journal, but since they appointed dedicated Burning...
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2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Burning Man Project IRS Form 990 The Burning Man juggernaut smashes on. Since they declared the business a “non-profit”, it sure has become profitable....
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