Drug Raid Linked to WA Dance Parties

So-called 'bush doof parties' are in the spotlight after West Australian police executed a major raid in suburban Perth that yielded about $210,000 worth of cannabis and hallucinogenics, believed to be directly related to the emerging culture of regional underground shindigs.

As originally reported by West Australian paper The Sunday Times, the raid was carried out by police at a Thornlie home on Wednesday last week, with officers seizing 100 litres of what is believed to be the hallucinogen DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine) from the property.

In completing the raid, organised crime squad officers also allegedly found hydroponically cultivated cannabis and a lab used in the manufacture of DMT — the first such supposed set-up found in the state in two years, The Sunday Times says. In addition, police will allege they located 88 cannabis plants, 'magic' mushrooms, ketamine and 11 kilograms of cannabis material in the Greenway Avenue home.

A range of charges, including attempting to manufacture a prohibited drug and possessing a prohibited drug with intent to sell or supply, have been laid against a 20-year-old and 30-year-old man in the wake of the raid.

According to reports, WA Police detective-inspector Chris Adams has confirmed that the state's authorities are now investigating links between the confiscated goods and the days-long bush 'doofs', which according to The Sunday Times have been operating outside the law in remote parts of the state for a handful of years. "Those who attend are known to take hallucinogenics, cocaine and cannabis," the paper explained.

The arrested men are slated to appear in Armadale Magistrates Court on November 21.