Daikun
05-16-2007, 11:23 PM
There's a CD out on the market that apparently gives the listener the feeling of getting high -- high like on drugs.
Different sounds apparently trigger highs from different drugs. And young kids know about this.
Eyewitness News reporter Jeff Rossen has the story.
Euphoria in a box -- a CD delivered right to your home. The makers say, just listen.and you'll get high.
One track is supposed to make you feel like you're on peyote. Another one is supposed to give you the feeling of smoking marijuana.
It sounds like a mish-mosh of bizarre sounds with a beat behind it. It's catching on with suburban high school kids. In Wanaque, New Jersey, they swear it works.
The CD goes for about $20 dollars online from a company with no address or contact number. On the CD case, the makers explain how it works: binaural sound waves that synchronize your brain giving you the sensation of a drug high.
Dr. Darius Kohan is an autologist neurologist at NYU -- basically an expert on how the ear affects the brain. So, we asked him, is this medically possible?
"Music will never make you ... hallucinate," Dr. Kohan said.
I listened in silence to the entire 15 minute track. Doctors say the CD itself cannot hurt you. But drug experts are worried, worried for the kids who take it to the next level.
Could it be the new gateway drug? A legal CD available to anyone with access to the Internet? Whatever the case, it's an alert for all parents.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=5312070
Different sounds apparently trigger highs from different drugs. And young kids know about this.
Eyewitness News reporter Jeff Rossen has the story.
Euphoria in a box -- a CD delivered right to your home. The makers say, just listen.and you'll get high.
One track is supposed to make you feel like you're on peyote. Another one is supposed to give you the feeling of smoking marijuana.
It sounds like a mish-mosh of bizarre sounds with a beat behind it. It's catching on with suburban high school kids. In Wanaque, New Jersey, they swear it works.
The CD goes for about $20 dollars online from a company with no address or contact number. On the CD case, the makers explain how it works: binaural sound waves that synchronize your brain giving you the sensation of a drug high.
Dr. Darius Kohan is an autologist neurologist at NYU -- basically an expert on how the ear affects the brain. So, we asked him, is this medically possible?
"Music will never make you ... hallucinate," Dr. Kohan said.
I listened in silence to the entire 15 minute track. Doctors say the CD itself cannot hurt you. But drug experts are worried, worried for the kids who take it to the next level.
Could it be the new gateway drug? A legal CD available to anyone with access to the Internet? Whatever the case, it's an alert for all parents.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=5312070