Using your iPhone to replace your drug dealer? App developers are now using high frequency sounds to trick your brain into making your body feel out of this world, and although it hasn’t been proven to deliver results, distributors haven’t had trouble making these MP3’s pay off. All you need is the internet to point, click and download your way into digital ecstacy.
In 2008, Binaural Beats were introduced online as illusory “beats,” created when tones of different frequencies are separated and then presented to each ear simultaneously. These MP3 files promise to temporarily alter brain waves that correspond with different feelings, like euphoria and deep relaxation, and ultimately changing your mental state. Many MP3s represent different drugs for different effects and all a person needs is a pair of high quality headphones to “get high”.
Because there are no restrictions currently in place for those downloading drugs, many teenagers and young adults are paying to get high online. Nationwide, protesters aim to shatter the use and promotion of i-dosing, a newly found term used to describe getting high on digital drugs, to teenagers surfing the net, ““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.
Sites like downloaddigitaldrugs.com prompt online users to download mp3s, “lie down, relax, shut your eyes and play the mp3 file to achieve same effects caused by real drugs!” This site offers unlimited hits of cocaine, heroin, LSD, marijuana, ecstasy, opium, nicotine, alcohol, absinthe, and nitro at a packaged cost of $17 per download, a price it says is less than half of what most sites are charging to customers.
GetHighNow.com offers users free Audio and Visual High trials as teasers for its remedy book, Get High Now (without drugs)—an illustrated, mind-blowing magic carpet ride of more than 175 ways to alter human perception and consciousness (without drugs or alcohol).” Although the site doesn’t seem to be promising effects of illegal drugs, its popular downloads do include tracks called, “Deep Meditation, Super Focus, Roomate Annihilator, and Hangover Helper.”
How do you feel about digital drugs? Is it an abomination to the app industry or just another way to make millions online?
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