The students, often middle schoolers, crush candies such as Smarties or use already powdered candies such as Pixy Stix or powder drink packets such as KoolAid and snort them into their noses, Williams said. In some cases the students will crush a pack of candy and put the packet in their mouth and inhale and blow the fine granules out as if they were smoking, she said.
"They think it's funny," Williams said. But Williams, drug educators, and at least one candy company, aren't laughing. The students who do it are inhaling sugary powdery dust into the nasal cavities, which can lead to infections in the sinuses or upper respiratory system, Williams said.
The biggest concern among drug educators, however, is what mimicking smoking or snorting drugs could portend for the future, Williams said. "It shows that willingness to experiment and try different things," she said. "Later it may not be Smarties. It may be alcohol. It may be cigarettes. It may be marijuana."
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what about coke? i think if they'er already SNORTING candies then they will probably be more willing to snort other things right? none of this "it may be marijuana" bs, marijuana is a medicinal plant that should be tried by everybody (without a respiratory problem) at some point in their lives. now if these little tots were rolling up grass and leaves in the school yard id say otherwise but i don't see how you could possibly link marijuana to snorting candy. i DO know of people that do/have done cocaine without ever trying marijuana. and i do know of people that snorted candy in their younger years and yes some of them did move on to other things but do not relate smoking a harmless plant to kids snorting frigging pixie sticks, its completely irrelevant.
Yes, Matt. But neo-Prohibitionists feel it's more important for them overlook the obvious and instead impugn two legal drugs and one that should be legal -- and may be shortly in the U.S., as public sentiment to legalize marijuana increases. I wouldn't go so far as to say marijuana is "harmless," but it's certainly no more harmful than an addiction to hard liquor -- and it's a LOT easier to get addicted to alcohol than marijuana.
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