Kids getting 'high' off music?!? BE AFRAID! BE VERY AFRAID!!!

[Lance_Boyle]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/digital-drugs/

"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 Oklahoma 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...

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."

Gotta love it. And I want some of that peyote music, man...

[meegbear]

1. I *knew* Hanna Montana was gateway music ...

then you switch to Selena Gomez and in no time you're on the streets turning tricks for the latest Lady Gaga track.

[T Wolf]

2. Forget "what's the matter with Kansas." What the fuck are they are they smoking -

or listening to - in Oklahoma?

Where can I get some of that?

[Electric Monk]

3. there's a big thread on this already, fwiw

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8743114

[1monster]

4. We didn't have MP3s, Ipods, or even Internet when I was a kid. But a version of this

argument was around then, too. There were those who prached burning rock 'n' roll records and books and mini-skirts, etc., because they all were gateway activities that led to not only drug use, but illicit sex too.

Those boogy men will stil be around in our great-great-grandchildren's times no matter if the technology is STAR TREK's 29th century or if it is of the BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON stone age type technology.

[malaise]

5. Won't be long before they declare

a war on music

[Lochloosa]

6. And I wasted all that time going to Dead shows....

Damn:evilgrin:

[backscatter712]

7. I should get into that racket.

Take some mp3s out of my collection, hack them up with audacity, charge $20 a hit, laugh all the way to the bank!

[Kitty Herder]

8. Who hasn't gotten high on music?

"State of ecstasy?" Yeah, good music can do that.

[Egnever]

9. Oklahoma News 9

Thats really all you need to know. Guess the satan angle isnt working as well as it used to out there any more.