Ever wanted to gurn your way to the top? Well MTV’s calling out to mouth-munchers everywhere – your munty mishaps might be a bit more intriguing than you first thought. Introducing ‘True Life: I’m Addicted to Molly’, a casting call with a difference.

Attempting to accurately capture the life and loves of the full-time gurner, MTV intends to get to the bottom of those powder-snorting-meddlin’-kids. As stated on the MTV official website;

“Do you take Molly — the powdered form of MDMA — so often that it feels like you can’t have a good time without it?  Is it affecting your ability to function during the day? Is your Molly use no longer confined to the occasional party and starting to become more serious?”

This isn’t the first time that MTV has wanted to publicly broadcast themes in the drug user/criminal/victim sphere. Throwback to 2000 and the release of ‘True Life: I’m Addicted to Ecstasy’…

At the time the narrator of the show pronounced the party-drug as having never ‘been more popular’. Pretty awks considering the amount of poppin’ going on now. Even so – MTV have to keep up with the EDM times, right? It’s a fun way to collate the music you’re trying to sell with a dangerous and riskly lifestyle, right?

Methinks someone might need to check out Business Models 101.

The reality of the situation is that yep, MDMA or ‘molly’ use is relatively high, maybe it’s increasing none can really be sure (and lest we forget that for years civilizations have been getting high for a multitude of reasons – eg. cocaine was the Elizabethan pain reliever of choice – ragin’). But most users use sporadically, those special occasion raves and parties, with dealing going on in the share house living rooms of the country. Only a small majority are getting on it several times a week and realistically posing as much risk as any other substance (eg. alcohol) would incur – a point you wouldn’t generally hear from the ‘MDMA REFORMS YOUR BRAIN’ preachers that tend to feature on these types of reality shows.

Do you think that shows like these do more damage than they’re worth?

[via edm.com]