Report: Teens Using Digital Drugs to Get High

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By Ryan Singel July 14, 2010 | 4:14 pm |
Categories: The Ridiculous, Threats

Kids around the country are getting high on the internet, thanks to MP3s that induce a state of ecstasy. And it could be a gateway drug leading teens to real-world narcotics.

At least, that’s what Kansas News 9 is reporting about a phenomenon called “i-dosing,” which involves finding an online dealer who can hook you up with “digital drugs” that get you high through your headphones.

And officials are taking it seriously.

“Kids are going to flock to these sites just to see what it is about and it can lead them to other places,” Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs spokesman Mark Woodward told News 9.

I-dosing involves donning headphones and listening to “music” — largely a droning noise — which the sites peddling the sounds promise will get you high. Teens are listening to such tracks as “Gates of Hades,” which is available on YouTube gratis (yes, the first one is always free).

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[bif]

1. Is this from The Onion?

[Electric Monk]

2. dupe thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8753637#8753832

[BakedAtAMileHigh]

3. "Digital Drugs".....ahhh, evolution.

Who knows where this could lead? I love it.

[Egnever]

4. officials are taking it seriously

What a joke we have become

[BakedAtAMileHigh]

5. "electric banana" hoax redux?

Awesome!

[Warpy]

6. This was debunked years and years ago

but it's a big thing among highly suggestible people out there.

It sounds like muffled techno to me.

Officials who are taking it seriously need useful work to do because they're wasting the people's money on this crap.

[T Wolf]

7. Bad story from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century television series. Laughable as a

"dramatic" plot - downright scary as a "serious???" concern in the 21st century.

[FiveGoodMen]

8. Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs

Which kind of drugs are THEY using?