'Digital' drugs on your ipod.

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

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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.

 

And officials are taking it seriously.

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-edit- Ah crapulence. I think somebody posted this here a couple days ago. Forgive...

shit, i've been getting high every day for years then.

yeah i saw a few days ago. the hysteria surrounding it is deeply, deeply stupid. only in america... the kids need to stop fucking around with that site and try this

You have to be really careful when dabbling in digital drugs. Unless your buying high quality flac from a chemist your undoubtedly getting drugs cut with impurities prior to distribution. This one time a friend of mine bought some and thought he was getting pure Brazilian loseless, but it ended up being cut with some 8bit crap from Argentina and his ears nearly exploded. True story.

They make i-doser sound way better than it is.

this has been around for years. if i were the type to shout jazz from the rooftops, i would cry, well, jazz. from a rooftop.

that said, this is the lamest thing ever. kids doing drugs is lame. kids using sound files to induce drug-like effects is lamer. adults using sound files to do the same is so lame its uncharted on the lame-omitter.

while it's funny, also imagine what sort of evil legislation they could write for this

yeah, every few months some news station picks this up and goes apeshit over it.

  On 7/16/2010 at 11:02 PM, AcrossCanyons said:

this has been around for years. if i were the type to shout jazz from the rooftops, i would cry, well, jazz. from a rooftop.

 

that said, this is the lamest thing ever. kids doing drugs is lame. kids using sound files to induce drug-like effects is lamer. adults using sound files to do the same is so lame its uncharted on the lame-omitter.

whats so lame about learning about the different ways sound can affect your consciousness? you sound too cynical

psychoacoustics anyone?

  On 7/16/2010 at 10:51 PM, Drahken said:

You have to be really careful when dabbling in digital drugs. Unless your buying high quality flac from a chemist your undoubtedly getting drugs cut with impurities prior to distribution. This one time a friend of mine bought some and thought he was getting pure Brazilian loseless, but it ended up being cut with some 8bit crap from Argentina and his ears nearly exploded. True story.

This is a good point. Also don't forget to idose your 5-htp to induce hella sweet laughing and shaking (please see newscast if you don't know). The lames will tell you 5-htp is only good for getting back to baseline after taking MDxx, but they haven't turned up the volume.

I was actually interested in the article until it said OKLAHOMA..

What highschool kid listens to steve reich... right..

its like something from brass eye

It's my brain and I'll do what I want with it.

there really are no proper words for how I feel about the media response to this... merely: ... and even that fails to capture my feelings on the matter, by a extremely huge margin.

  On 7/17/2010 at 12:24 AM, Kcinsu said:

there really are no proper words for how I feel about the media response to this... merely: ... and even that fails to capture my feelings on the matter, by a extremely huge margin.

When one face palm is simply not enough (edit for fucking shitty non-hotlinking site)

I posted a video of my kid i-Dosing

[youtubehd]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq2igD93zOg[/youtubehd]

I had those headphones

I'm surprised the media has ignored another dangerous drug culture quite similar to these darn digital drugs. I think in some circles its called Ghost Running, or OOBR (Out of Body Running, for the laymen). Basically, you jog on a treadmill till your physically exhausted, then lay down in the dark with some Dave Matthews playing and enjoy this surreal sensation. It feels like your still running, even though your body is completely stationary. I've even heard of an analog of this drug involving a stationary bicycle.

i wonder how the government will try to capture these new 'drugs'

all these years, i was under the impression that a drug was a chemical capable of kickin' it in the brain. the times, they are, uh, becoming quite different.

this reminds me of basilisks: http://www.ansible.co.uk/writing/c-b-faq.html

I bet these don't even work, or if they do, it's on an extreme minority, and even THEN it still may be placebo.

it's mostly placebo, i'm guessing. this is a pretty informative thread on reddit:

  On 7/16/2010 at 10:48 PM, Z_B_Z said:

yeah i saw a few days ago. the hysteria surrounding it is deeply, deeply stupid. only in america... the kids need to stop fucking around with that site and try this

 

This one worked for me back in the day...