Philly kids now snorting virtual coke

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Philly kids now snorting virtual coke

POSTED: Friday, March 11, 2011, 12:32 PM

File this under the Dept. of I Honestly Don't Know How to Feel About This: While recently taking the 36 trolley, City Paper spotted a young woman snorting virtual coke on her iPhone. She used a virtual razor to cut up virtual lines, and then used a virtual rolled-up dollar bill to virtually snort them.

The young woman did this over and over for about 10 minutes, as CP watched, a bit in shock. Even more amazingly, she was sitting next to a sweater-donning elderly woman on the trolley all the while.

Apparently, she was using an app called iSnort.

It left CP with many questions: Does this app further normalize cocaine in a city plagued by drug problems, especially among younger people? Or does it make no difference at all? Or could it even help addicts, in a weird way, like drinking non-alcoholic beer does? And most importantly: Am I old?

Oh, also, just in case someone from Oklahoma is reading this, don't worry, you can't actually get high on iSnort! Sigh.

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