Sound As the New Illegal Narcotic?

ehrichweiss writes "The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics is warning parents and teachers of a new threat to our children: sounds. Apparently kids are now discovering binaural beats and using them to get 'physiological effects.' The report goes on with everyone suggesting that such aural experiences will act as a gateway to drug usage and even has one student claiming there are 'demons' involved. Anyone who has used one of those light/sound machines knows all about the effects that these sounds will give and to state that they will lead kids to do drugs is nonsense at best. It seems the trend in scaring the citizens with a made-up problem has gone to the next level."

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because drug addiction destroys freedom

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the worst jail in the most orwellian government authoritarian nightmare you can imagine, doesn't begin to compare to the bars drug addiction places in the mind. unless of course, that government destroyed people's freedom by force addicting them to heroin

where before a mind might contemplate philosophy, literature, art, now you have an interrupt cycle which turns this person into a drug seeking zombie

in the entire history of mankind, no entity has destroyed more freedom than drug use. governments are a far second place also ran

i argue with people about drug policy all the time, and it just absolutely floors me how all of the harm is from governmental policy, and no one ever admits to the harm the actual drug does on human lives. its amazing. the arguments against drug policy, are, in a way, the classic rationalization of the average addict: "its the world's fault, not mine"