i-dosing on iPod with trippy tunes and digital drugs for a freakin’ high

'If music be the food of love, play on,’ seems to have been stretched to all its literal sense by a chunk of internet users. Reports have it; teens around US have found a new high on the internet - MP3s that induce a state of ecstasy, purportedly bringing about the same effects of marijuana, cocaine, opium and peyote. Now, before you laugh it out, I’ll tell you “officials are taking it seriously,” Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs is warning parents of the same.

i dosing on digital drugs

What is it?

This growing phenomenon is being termed as i-dosing, and is sensed to be a digital drug leading teens to real-world narcotics. i-dosing “involves finding an online dealer who can hook you up with “digital drugs” that get you high through your headphones.” The person wears headphones and listens to the supplied music, which is basically a droning noise, that peddling sites say would get the users high.

The MP3 drugs are provided with 40-page guide so that the drug addicts can learn how to properly get high on MP3s. Before cyber laws have worked out a way to curtail this ‘get high on music phenomenon’, just have your taste of the digital drug listening to tracks as “Gates of Hades.”

Video of one wholesome kid getting high - startlingly so - on an MP3:

Via: Wired/Gizmodo