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Online world offers virtual drugs
01.15.07|itweek.co.uk|Clement James

Virtual world Red Light Center has started selling virtual drugs in its online nightclubs, hotels, bars, cinemas and shops.

Red Light Center, which claims to be world's second most populated virtual space, has introduced a feature that allows members and guests to visit an Amsterdam-style smoking room, toke on a hookah and get a "virtual high".

The online virtual world is modelled on Amsterdam's notorious red light district and is limited to players aged 18 and over.

"In a move sure to draw fire from the anti-drug establishment, any user who enters Merlin's Café will find an assortment of hookahs, or Oriental water pipes," the company said.

"The pipes can be freely smoked, and doing so will cause the user to experience the sensation of getting high. Smoking more virtual pot increases the effects, which range from 'mellow' to 'wasted'."

Red Light Center went on to claim that users have reported the visual and digital high as being "surprisingly realistic" at mimicking the effects of smoking marijuana.

The company even quoted psychologist Dr David Walsh, a spokesman for the National Institute on Family and the Media, who slammed the move and said that drug use in games creates curiosity and allure for players.

"Games are interactive and psychologically powerful. Now we have a game that glorifies drug use. Where do we draw the line?" he said.

 

TehUberGeeK

You can buy alcohol in games. In World of Warcraft it'll slur your speech and cause you to wobble back and forth.

newgrowerNY

Other games as well. In Everquest, you could get drunk to the point of not being able to see anything on the screen ... funny no one is complaining about that ..

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Buzzby

He has a point. Games are supposed to teach children about killing, maiming, beating, stealing, crashing vehicles, and blowing things up, not about getting high and having fun with their friends.

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mrpoop

Are you serious? People really get their panties in a bunch because people can not-really-get-high in not-really-life? Sad, sad...

 

Darque Pervert

This site is very clearly labelled as "adults only". If you're a parent and your kids are surfing to this site to play these adult games, then you obviously aren't paying close enough attention to your children's surfing habits.

Regarding other games with content that is wholly inappropriate for kids (namely the GTA series), is it not the parents' responsibility to monitor the games their kids are playing and disallow them to play games you deem inappropriate?