Digital highs are a "made up" drug

Remember Chris Morris and Cake? "One kiddy on Cake cried all the water out of his body. Just imagine how his mother felt. It's a fucking disgrace".

Now imagine if Bernard Manning had got hold of this Daily Mail story, which reports on something called i-dosing:

"the new craze sweeping the internet in which teenagers used so-called ‘digital drugs’ to change their brains in the same way as real-life narcotics."

The report goes on - in what surely must be a deliberate attempt to wind us all up:

"They believe the repetitive drone-like music will give them a ‘high’ that takes them out of reality, only legally available and downloadable on the Internet.

The craze has so far been popular among teenagers in the U.S. but given how easily available the videos are, it is just a matter of time before it catches on in Britain.

Those who come up with the ‘doses’ claim different tracks mimic different sensations you can feel by taking drugs such as Ecstasy or smoking cannabis."

The commenters underneath mostly agree that Chris Morris is now in control and that this pictured teenager is making it up ...

Licking the daily mail logo on your PC screen gets you high too! 

Try listening to a Guardian podcast it has far worse effects. They should start a service called i-ranting

Government needs to step in and get these MP3 tracks banned. A friend on mine got hooked at university. Typically they start on the freely available 'gateway' sounds, but pretty quickly they gain tolerance and are handing over large amounts of cash for the stronger stuff, with nicknames like Manilow, O'BlueEyes and the synthetic designer tracks like NSync

Apparently Paedophiles can make your keyboard emit a gas that makes children more susceptible to their online conditioning. They've been getting into the boxes of keyboards (and possibly mice) in shops that sell them, and modifying them to let them do this. I can't remember the name of it, but I saw a documentary about it on the TV a while back.

I tried this after seeing a report about it on another site. A guess what happened? Absolutely nothing. When I was at college we tricked a friend into believing some rolled up tobacco had something a 'bit more potent' in it. He smoked it whilst claiming how high he was and how good he felt. Of course, he thought he was high because he believed he was. I suspect the same thing is going on here.

I'd rather the kids did this than something much worse, like reading the Daily Mail. I read the Mail and now I've only got 45 years to live.

I can see potential problems with this. For example we KNOW how subliminal mesages can affect the minds of most people already, so if somebody EXPECTS to get an effect from "I-Dosin then they probably WILL...are we going to be hearing storys in the papers etc on how somebody who was "high" on I-Dosing comitted a murder ? Dont scoff people...wierder things have happened

the ones freaking out, you sure they aren't listening to katie prices single?

I, for one, will be avoiding the internet in case I puke up my own pelvic bone.

Comments

[Peter Demain]

I remember watching Brass Eye back in the 1990s which took this rabidity and put it to several personalities. The fictional drug...'cake'! A bright yellow disc-shaped substance about the size of a vinyl record took in a few personalities and even got a Conservative MP David Amess asking a question in Parliament. Chris Morris's creations were one of those great and rare bits of TV that expose just how it is with drugs. The politicians are cavalier, ignorant and wrongheaded - and many of them know it.

That we can't approach it differently isn't a mere pigheadedness...the reasons why drugs aren't treated in a harm-reducing sense rather than punitive measures is down to vested interests, ignorance of people (the Frank ads never helped all that much), together with the Mail whose shrill comments on drugs keep any actual discussion very low on the list of debate in Westminister.

Prison and police services rely on prohibition for jobs and money, the street drugs cause more harm due to impurities/pollutants than they would have were they available in a safe place in a pure form. The government is not able to divorce itself from preaching against drugs to mount a purely informative, factual campaign without the use of stark imagery for shock value (ie. brain surgery Frank ads were scaremongering over cannabis and not informing youth) . The campaign and the millions of taxpayer cash expended are wasted and are ignored by the young, who find out more info from a half hour online these days if wanting to evaluate risks or gain knowledge overall.

It's just a mess as drugs are everywhere now; use is between stable and a slow rise for most substances...and the (oft-stated) fact is that the legal drugs of alcohol and tobacco (as many journos find out the hard way) cause a boatload more harm and addiction than a lot of the classed, illegal drugs. But despite common sense, despite the Lib Dems having a policy of decriminalizing cannabis just 5 or 6 years ago complete with permitting personal home cultivation you're on another planet if you think that idea is going to be even glanced at by this lot.

Drugs are practically as easy to get as were they on sale in a licensed premise; prohibition isn't working, and is just another gravy train for vested interests to the detriment of the public health thanks to criminality/subpar product. That we have not moved on for 80 years from this is pretty amazing considering all the scientific, technological and social advancement since the 1920s/1930s.

Hilarious how the Daily Mail laps up some fake Youtube clip of some prankster 'tripping' after listening to a bunch of funny sounds - hilarious and sad.

- Pete @ dirtygarnet.com