Summary: The annual three-day Electric Zoo festival, held on Randall’s Island in New York City, is a major event within the electronic dance music community. But this past weekend, the third and final day of the festival was cancelled following the deaths of two festival attendees. Although their causes of death haven’t yet been officially confirmed, the New York City’s Mayor’s Office stated that “both appear to have involved the drug MDMA (ecstasy, or molly).” Joining us to discuss the proliferation of the drug in popular culture is Kia Makarechi, entertainment editor for the Huffington Post, and Irina Aleksander, who wrote a piece for the New York Times about the drug MDMA earlier this year.
