Emphasis mine:
By his own admission, Daniel Chong planned to spend April 20 like so many other college students: smoking marijuana with friends to celebrate an unofficial holiday devoted to the drug.
But for Mr. Chong, the celebration ended in a Kafkaesque nightmare inside a San Diego Drug Enforcement Administration holding cell, where he said he was forgotten for four days, without food or water.
To survive, Mr. Chong said he drank his own urine, hallucinated and, at one point, considered how to take his own life. By the time agents found him on the fifth day and called paramedics, he said he thought he could be dead within five minutes. [...]
A spokeswoman for the D.E.A. said the case was under investigation, but confirmed that Mr. Chong had been “accidentally left in one of the cells” from April 21 until April 25, and that he had not been charged with a crime.
New York Times: California Man’s ‘Drug Holiday’ Becomes Four-Day Nightmare in Holding Cell
(Thanks Donnie)
Recently: Undercover Cops Seduce High School Students and Entrap Them into Selling Weed
From http://technoccult.net/archives/2012/05/05/dea-deprives-man-in-holding-cell-of-food-or-water-for-four-days/
Above: actual promotional image for iDoser’s affiliate program. What a bunch of scrumbags!
We’ve covered I-Doser before, but the ridiculous fears about it are back:
Kids around the country are getting high on the internet, thanks to MP3s that induce a state of ecstasy. And it could be a gateway drug leading teens to real-world narcotics.
At least, that’s what Oklahoma News 9 is reporting about a phenomenon called “i-dosing,” which involves finding an online dealer who can hook you up with “digital drugs” that get you high through your headphones.
And officials are taking it seriously.
“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.
Threat Level: Report: Teens Using Digital Drugs to Get High
I-Doser could be the worst drug since Jenkem. Be afraid. Very afraid.
Silliness aside, I-Doser does seem to be a pretty scummy company. I-Doser is actually based on the open-source application SbaGen, and it used SbaGen’s code without permission. That’s on top of its shady “per dose” pricing for its bunk “product,” which makes mp3 DRM seem reasonable. There’s a torrent available of I-Doser files ported to SbaGen, so please: don’t let your friends use iDoser.
More:
Wikipedia: Binaural Beats
Gnaural – another open-source binaural-beat generator
From http://technoccult.net/archives/2010/07/15/the-new-jenkem-idoser/
