Author Topic: Kids snorting candy? (Read 6653 times)

Monkeyleg · « **on:** December 28, 2011, 10:49:09 AM »

I read this in last night's paper. I wonder where kids ever got the idea to try grinding up candy and snorting it? Where would they see someone snorting something? Movies? MTV? TV?

I have to laugh at the last paragraph, though. It's the drug-story equivalent of a news anchor reporting on a stabbing with a graphic of an AK47 on the screen behind him.

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BIRMINGHAM — Alabama drug educators say they're concerned about a new trend among some children that involves crushing certain types of candy and then snorting or inhaling it.

The Birmingham News reports the trend is known as "smoking Smarties."

Carol Williams, project coordinator of the Shelby County Drug Free Coalition Project Safe Place Programs of Family Connection Inc., says children are literally inhaling sugar into their bodies.

Williams said children either crush candies or using already powdered candies such as Pixy Stix or powder drink packets such as KoolAid and snort them into their noses.

She said inhaling dust into the nasal cavities can lead to infections in the sinuses or upper respiratory system.

She adds that some children do it to mimic the act of smoking a cigarette.

wmenorr67 · « **Reply #1 on:** December 28, 2011, 11:00:04 AM »

Had a guy in my unit at my first duty station that would snort sugar.

Fitz · « **Reply #2 on:** December 28, 2011, 11:07:58 AM »

My response in the other thread is appropriate here too...

I doubt it's a "trend" like the article says. Probably more like an isolated group of dipshits

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #3 on:** December 28, 2011, 11:22:31 AM »

Well, I don't know about you, but even though I was a heavy smoker, I never tried snorting cigarettes.

Tallpine · « **Reply #4 on:** December 28, 2011, 11:50:27 AM »

Quote from: Monkeyleg on December 28, 2011, 11:22:31 AM

Well, I don't know about you, but even though I was a heavy smoker, I never tried snorting cigarettes.

Did you ever try to smoke candy

MicroBalrog · « **Reply #5 on:** December 28, 2011, 11:58:13 AM »

Quote from: wmenorr67 on December 28, 2011, 11:00:04 AM

Had a guy in my unit at my first duty station that would snort sugar.

Does it do anything?

wmenorr67 · « **Reply #6 on:** December 28, 2011, 12:13:02 PM »

Quote from: MicroBalrog on December 28, 2011, 11:58:13 AM

Does it do anything?

I wouldn't know. He was our only black member of our unit and felt he had to do crazy *expletive deleted*it to try and fit in at times. Really blew his mind one day shortly after I got there when I brought back to the room 2 x 40's of Old E. Pissed him off when he realized they weren't for him.

RevDisk · « **Reply #7 on:** December 28, 2011, 12:16:46 PM »

Quote from: wmenorr67 on December 28, 2011, 11:00:04 AM

Had a guy in my unit at my first duty station that would snort sugar.

Keeps you awake when caffeine has lost its efficiency.

41magsnub · « **Reply #8 on:** December 28, 2011, 12:39:35 PM »

I've never tried it, but heard a pixie stick burns like hell if you snort it.

MicroBalrog · « **Reply #9 on:** December 28, 2011, 01:37:08 PM »

Quote from: RevDisk on December 28, 2011, 12:16:46 PM

Keeps you awake when caffeine has lost its efficiency.

Details?

BlueStarLizzard · « **Reply #10 on:** December 28, 2011, 02:00:47 PM »

*snort*

As long as there have been pixie stix, there have been kids snorting pixie stixs.

a bunch of kids in my middle school got suspended for it (on the drug no tolerance policy. Mimicing drug use is part of it)

Tallpine · « **Reply #11 on:** December 28, 2011, 02:04:46 PM »

So ... what if you stick your pixie stix - oh, never mind

MicroBalrog · « **Reply #12 on:** December 28, 2011, 02:41:31 PM »

Quote from: bluestarlizzard on December 28, 2011, 02:00:47 PM

a bunch of kids in my middle school got suspended for it (on the drug no tolerance policy. Mimicing drug use is part of it)

Okay. I think some of my brain cells just committed suicide.

Jamie B · « **Reply #13 on:** December 28, 2011, 02:42:12 PM »

Quote from: Tallpine on December 28, 2011, 02:04:46 PM

So ... what if you stick your pixie stix - oh, never mind

Your horse would not be happy........

LadySmith · « **Reply #14 on:** December 28, 2011, 07:30:35 PM »

Quote from: wmenorr67 on December 28, 2011, 12:13:02 PM

Really blew his mind one day shortly after I got there when I brought back to the room 2 x 40's of Old E. Pissed him off when he realized they weren't for him.

Aw, that was wrong, Dawg.

Jamie B · « **Reply #15 on:** December 28, 2011, 07:49:57 PM »

I have a bottle of Old Ezra that I have had for 30 years.

I'm just waiting for the right time to crack the seal..........

RevDisk · « **Reply #16 on:** December 28, 2011, 09:44:51 PM »

Quote from: MicroBalrog on December 28, 2011, 01:37:08 PM

Details?

After two days, caffeine had little to no effect of keeping you awake and alert.

Snorting a line of sugar will however work quite well. Not sure if it's from the adsorption of the sugar, or more likely the horrific burning and pain. Feels like smashing a rusty nail through your head, coated with lime juice.

Perks ya right up.

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #17 on:** December 28, 2011, 10:54:17 PM »

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Snorting a line of sugar will however work quite well. Not sure if it's from the adsorption of the sugar, or more likely the horrific burning and pain. Feels like smashing a rusty nail through your head, coated with lime juice.

Perks ya right up.

Man, that's almost as dumb as taking arsenic to get high (hangs head in shame).

Twycross · « **Reply #18 on:** December 28, 2011, 10:59:12 PM »

Quote from: RevDisk on December 28, 2011, 09:44:51 PM

Snorting a line of sugar will however work quite well. Not sure if it's from the adsorption of the sugar, or more likely the horrific burning and pain. Feels like smashing a rusty nail through your head, coated with lime juice.

Never tried sugar. I did, however, do a line of table salt once, with similar results.

gunsmith · « **Reply #19 on:** December 28, 2011, 11:02:44 PM »

I seem to remember having candy cigarettes as a kid

Nick1911 · « **Reply #20 on:** December 28, 2011, 11:15:46 PM »

guys use to do this at my highschool.

not the sharpest tool in the shed

BlueStarLizzard · « **Reply #21 on:** December 29, 2011, 12:50:27 PM »

Quote from: gunsmith on December 28, 2011, 11:02:44 PM

I seem to remember having candy cigarettes as a kid

My mom was pretty pissed when those stopped being readily avalible. They were one of the four traditional candy items in my easter baskets. You can still get them sometimes as novilties, but they can be kinda hard to find.
I still have the box from the last pack she bought me.

The other one pissed her off even more, I thought she was gonna go all irrate when the stopped making the chopper chocolete bunny (there was a weird family wide tradition on that based on something my aunt said when she was a kid)

AZRedhawk44 · « **Reply #22 on:** December 29, 2011, 10:34:42 PM »

This ain't new.

I remember doing this in elementary school, in the late 80's. Mostly just to frustrate the teachers. We knew we wouldn't get high off it, and that it burned like all heck. But when your teacher is being a jerk to someone else, or running a really boring class, it's just the ticket to change the direction of things in the classroom.

We'd grind up Smarties and snort 'em like coke.

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #23 on:** December 29, 2011, 11:01:40 PM »

AZRedhaw44, somewhere along the line, someone must have gotten the idea to snort candy from seeing people snort drugs. It doesn't seem like the sort of behavior that develops naturally.

It's like toad-licking in Colorado a few years back. There's some species of toad that has a substance in its skin that can make a human being get high. As Rush Limbaugh asked, who was the first person to wonder what would happen if he licked a toad?

Regolith · « **Reply #24 on:** December 29, 2011, 11:06:00 PM »

Quote from: Monkeyleg on December 29, 2011, 11:01:40 PM

It's like toad-licking in Colorado a few years back. There's some species of toad that has a substance in its skin that can make a human being get high. As Rush Limbaugh asked, who was the first person to wonder what would happen if he licked a toad?

My guess, someone was really hungry and couldn't get a fire going, so he ate it raw, got high and told his friends. Then they "experimented" until they found it wasn't necessary to eat it, just lick it.

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