Teenagers Using “Digital Drugs” To Get High?!?

Posted by ralph on July 14, 2010

Headphones I’m finding this, strange. Maybe I am old-fashioned about so-called drug use … but where there is a perceived threat to young people, your local TV news folks will be on the story. Ryan Singel writes on WIRED’s Threat Level:

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).

Those who want to get addicted to the “drugs” can purchase tracks that will purportedly bring about the same effects of marijuana, cocaine, opium and peyote. While street drugs rarely come with instruction manuals, potential digital drug users are advised to buy a 40-page guide so that they learn how to properly get high on MP3s.

Kansas’ Mustang Public School district isn’t taking the threat lightly, and sent out a letter to parents warning them of the new craze. The educators have gone so far as to ban iPods at school, in hopes of preventing honor students from becoming cyber-drug fiends, News 9 reports.

Read More: WIRED’s Threat Level

Posted in: Bizarre, Drugs, Emerging Issues, Futurism, Internet, Media, Music, Technology, WTF, Youth

http://www.facebook.com/victor.r.franca Victor

I'm 25 that happened a long time ago :-p.
Greenfindemon

Gives me more of a headache than get me high! What a let down!
Gern

Jeebus 3rd site today with the alarmist uninformed bull excrement. Move along, nothing to see here. The net is getting to be a pile of derivative crap.
justagirl

you're gifted victor!! reply to my comments as often as you like (as if you need permission). i will be quite bored until september and then busy for about 15 weeks. maybe i “blossom” while i'm gone. i hope i don't dissappoint ;
Rogan2134

but oxygen bars are rad
DrFurry

lol just go listen to orthodox or agalloch, same shit but without crappy sounds
http://www.thecarnivalnoir.com Haystack

I was being ironic.*g*
http://www.facebook.com/victor.r.franca Victor

thanx!!!! i sure will follow what you say and comment and help stop the occasional flaming comment troll here and there. im bored now too cant even type fast, just got a bout of carpal tunnel so i can only type with the right forced time off!!! so 6 weeks of rest, no typing, no drumming, no goaltending . Make sure you keep the right typing angle on the wrist and take breaks this stuff is serious. im all about freedom so when you see someone commenting against freedom you can be sure ill be around. But one thing on “blossoming” just be safe, its about quality not quantity, quantity without quality is quite dangerous. And its all about love make sure you love the person and that the person is loving and nice from the first meeting. Don't try to win someones love or have someone try to win yours, that just does not work. but im sure you know all this, this is just my protective instincts talking. best posts ever TTYL. Im sure you wont disappoint plus this is not a place to filter yourself say what you want and expect the same from others. inhibition is the only thing thats disappointing
fluffy

lol
GirlinDaytona

It must be ratings week in Kansas.
Lila_men

How stupid…
Lenore Woodward

Try having to grow up with Barry Manilow; Isn't that worse than any drug?
wowthisisstupid

This is perhaps the most idiotic thing I have ever seen…

Really; seriously? This doesn't even work, the company iDoser pretty much rips people off. Binural audio can help you meditate but to say it reproduces the effects of drugs is asinine. If I ever meet any of these parents or school officials, hell if I meet the news anchor that decided this was newsworthy: I will squat down and shit in front of them. I will then pick up the shit and throw it at their face.

Only then will I feel they have paid for their crimes of stupidity.
http://flickr.com/photos/eddi3 Edddie

This is hilarious. You can get “high” off things like strobe lights too. The news will take anything seriously, honestly. Kids, stick to real drugs.
Shane

Oi there, I'm a Kansan myself (born and bred) and I take great offense to that comment. We are not all backwoods rednecks. While that does seem to run rampant, I'd thank you kindly to stop perpetuating the stereotype. We've had The Google and The Internets around here for years!!!
yuroga

the only thing this did was after i stopped listening to it, it made far away sounds, have a bubbly effect, only lasted like 30 seconds. thats it.
Geez

Have you tried it? It's certainly a gimmik to sell this as a “Drug” that imitates the effects of MDMA or whatever, but it DOES cause (subtle) altered states of consciousness.

I also agree with your comment on UFOs. did you know that recently a “UFO” shut down a chinese airport? And it was all just an illusion! they must have been seeing venus or swampgas or something. those silly, highly trained pilots! you and I know better tho! :F cause we so smurt.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/ufo-china-c...
Carol Channing

Try having to keep a black baby away from the eyes of the public!
Zaphodbblx

when I was a kid I used to do the same thing with my moms old Simon and Garfunkel records I'd play them over and over staring at the ceiling untill i hallucinated..does that mean they were a drug…COOL!
fultez

but how do I know you're not just using a pseudo scientific sounding explanation as to why this doesn't work?
Laur

listened to it and it did nothing
good effort at a waste of time news story
Ethan Allen's Ghost

Getting sick of this hoax, all it's gonna do is cause politicians to make MORE LAWS!!!!
Slimy Slug

This is old news.
Dubz

holy fukin shit this fukin world is fuking doomed unless the new generation finnaly take over and i cant fukin wait, if this could get me high then im a being from the 11th dimension here to destroy the fuking planet by geting everybody high on this sound ” booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooobies”.
Gibson21

I get higher off Led Zeppelin
DrFurry

jesus i can't make out what you're saying, so i took my time and translated it into simple english. This has stimulated my senses beyond compare. the world as we know it is in a down hill cascade until the new generation have taken control. i cannot wait for this, because if the videos claims are truth, then i could emulate this sound and destroy the world by getting everyone high from it. mammary glands.
Dubz

LOL. My bad i'm baked and pissed at the same time. I apologize for my broken english, lol thank you for translating though, much appreciated.
http://twitter.com/TylerBass Tyler Bass

Most Kansas shit ever.
Optofonik

This is the kind of gateway experience that could lead to kids going out and buying……….. synthesizers!!! OMG! I'll bet there is something more insidious to this, I'll bet I know who is behind this… Guitar Center!!! I've always suspected Guitar Center was evil. When I was a kid going in there to look at keyboards I noticed all the other kids were in the guitar department their eyes glazed over playing, as if in a hypnotic trance, “Stairway to Heaven” over and over and over…. They have to be stopped before another generation of souls is lost, in the keyboard department this time, hunched over synthesizers and computer screens swaying back and forth as they play Sigur Ros for hours on end every weekend completely lost to the outside would. We must stop this before we have an entire generation of electronic musicians!
Folabeatz923

lol “The Google” and “The Internets”
http://confettivomit.tumblr.com/ confettivomit

Went to the site and they're just trying to get publicity so people will buy the products on the website- the legal bud. Affiliate marketing. Thats alllll it is.
your name

lol my apologizes … ah yes yes didn't Judy Garland say theres no place like home?? and Return to OZ (awsome movie) could only be manifested in the mind of a backwood, sheltered girl with a dog name toto. So thank you Kansas. (Watch out for them ternaders)
SE7EN_STAR

Your brain is a controlled substance. this is literally true when you consider all the “illegal” chemicals it naturally produces. these domesticated primates we call authority figures don't seem to realize the music is only releasing what's already being created by the body itself.

what we need is a religion (therefore protected by the 1st amendment) that teaches you how to release DMT your pineal gland produces through utilizing tantric exercises. then we'll have some fun.
Shakey Coyote

This is stupid. Digital drugs. Nah TV doesn't put kids into a trance and all these brainwave mp3s do is put ya to sleep of give a bad headache. How about HAARP, digital TV, Ritalin, Lady Goo Goo videos, all designed to make us more stupid and put us into trances. Let them trance out maybe they will learn what mind control is about and develop a resistance. Learn about hypnosis and NLP Richard Bandler, Milton Erickson so you can use it as a tool for good so they can't you use on you as a weapon for evil. Stay away from brainwave generator don't download their bs viruses and rootkits. Check out warpmymind great hypnosis site free downloads but is for adults or hypno-files.com. They are obviously afraid these mp3s will cut in on their heroine profits from Afghanistan. If you can learn how to put yourself into trance then when someone else tries you can recognize and resist. If you want to get high that bad use weed. Yeah you got a better chance of getting high with Led Zep or Bob Marley than this dumbass garbage. There is even a tone to induce one to crap their pants. This is more like wishful thinking sugar pill idiot suggestion stuff. Oprah hypnotized me and led to worse stuff -I voted for Barry. Just kidding I voted McCain not that it would have mattered. The only diff is McCain would be in your face where Barry would just lie. So sure if you can find a tone a brainwave sound file it can work( i mean works to get you relaxed and trancey not high) but also each brain is different so it probably will not work on everyone. and do you really think you will trip out or get drunk from a tone or something you need suggestions at least till you have something to anchor and even then you may unconsciously resist. Just because you think you want to get high doesn't mean your unconscious will want the same. Maybe if you force yourself to listen for hours and hours sleep deprived hungry you may hallucinate something. And once you start will you be able to stop, have a good trip ya mp3 addicts.Cocaine is a hell of a drug – Rick James BITCH
Wikiwild

Its true I sided with many psychopathic women in my time. 1/3 of the time I didnt even realize how psycho they were.
Pebear

our puratian government will surly make this illegle and give them an excuse to lock up more of the American population for no good reason. They need these sensational sounding crappy stories like this to perpetuate the police state they have created.
Speasley

Hey guys I get a high after working out, I guess its bad for us to workout too, hahahahaha
McCoy

I know some songs to get high off (JK LOL) Crazy Train, Paranoid, and—> *Rick Roll shows up* (Never Gonna’ Give You Up)
McCoy

I know some songs to get high off (JK LOL) Crazy Train, Paranoid, and—> *Rick Roll shows up* (Never Gonna' Give You Up)
lackadasical parent #1

Even if it worked, which it obviously doesn’t, what would be wrong with it. Face it old ppl, the kids are takin the pi55…
CochaPuercos

Oh, like, wow. They did this in Kansas too? Channel 5 Pueblo/Colorado Springs had like the same nauseating bar-rar-rar coming from the lips of some spokesfreak from the Pueblo Co Sheriff dept.
Now, THEIR mental manipulation techniques are extremely effective. I first had an urge to clean out my ears with a power drill.
Then I considered cleaning out the Sheriff Narcotics Division freak’s ears with a power drill.
Then I realized that In the blood-boiling 3 minute message I had missed the officers name entirely, that there would probably be no way I could find him even if I managed to smuggle the power drill into the Sheriffs Department, (They ALL look alike, really)
Then I got really depressed and slept for three days, woke up crying, then went back to sleep.

Amen to the notion that the News station was shilling for the i-doser site. The Pueblo station (also Colorado Springs) is owned by a “conservative” corporation called Freedom Communications. I didn’t check the provenance of the Kansas station, but “Freedom” owns radio-teevee-newspooper properties in Kansas, and I’d bet a donut they’re affiliated. Getting a narc to justify increasing his discretionary budget is the easiest thing in the world, just tell him that if he plays the Sensationalism card he can get an extra digit on his budget. And they do know how to play that card, anybody who has ever gone to a church or school sponsored lecture on The Drug Epidemic by the local Sgt Stedanko or Norbert the Notorious Nark knows what I’m saying. (Back when I was getting high I’d smoke a bowl or three and go to the lecture… or a PTA event.)
Which leads to another observation, the Mellow Yellow connection was discussed, aka Banana Skins.
I looked that up, at a time when there was a (dope) famine in the land. And nutmeg. Both of them things people do to get high in jail. Like smoking psych-pills.
The Bananananana skin deal supposedly works, but it takes two days to prepare the “goodies” and THREE JOINTS of it to get off. No Thanks.

For further reference, there’s an issue of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, by Gil Shelton, where Fat Freddy gets a federal grant that snowballs into a major operation fighting an imaginary drug called Squeak.
It’s painfully accurate. There was a gag where some officer asked how they knew the Squeak Interdiction program was working and the answer was “How much Squeak have you seen on the street lately?”
My sig is “Cocha Puercos” and you’d have to learn a little Spanish for that.
http://www.learn4good.com/schools/specialty_boarding_school.htm Nathan @ Turning Winds

I won’t be surprised if this is indeed true. There are already a lot of things that some teenagers do to themselves just to experience the high that they wanted. Some even use prescription drugs at home even without their parent’s knowledge. It’s best that the possibility of anything dangerous occurring nowadays will be put in the open for parents to be aware of. They should make an effort to supervise and guide their kids while they do their daily activities. It may also help to see if there might be signs that their kids may be experiencing some problems. Besides it’s any parent’s responsibility to make sure their kids are okay and provide help and support when they do have problems in school or at home. Thanks for the info, by the way!

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