Smarties a Gateway Drug?!?!

[taj]

So Dr Phil is on in the background and it's about "dangerous" teen trends, and he's talking about kids smoking and snorting candy.. So I looked it up and this is what I found.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509932,00.html

I thought there might have been some new high I didn't know about. But alas, they're just crushing up smarties and exhaling the powder. Guess there are a bunch of you-tubes videos about how to do it. Dr. Phil (ha ha I keep typing Dr. Phile by accident) is saying how this is leading kids to real drug use.

Smarties a gateway drug, haha. I guess kids are snorting drink mixes too. Why, I have no idea.


One of the things they're using to try to dissuade kids from these activities is saying they're gonna get a nose full of maggots! Ha ha.

Actually this is all sort of sad. What's next? Drinking water in pre-teen years leads to alcohol use? Oh my god, now on Dr. Phile the parents are talking about sending their kid away to some sort of rehab because of this behavior. wtf? I gotta change the channel.

[PrisonHer]

Dr. PhilE is a rates seeking drama queen. Man things have changed..do they still make those little candy cigarettes? haha I used to light those little badboys on fire trying to puff like my dad. I guess that's whats wrong with me today. Oh and pop rocks..drink them with carbination and you're in for full blown fiZz. stupid.

[StackBundles]

Man, I hate to admit this...I fondly recall the days at the lunch table in the third grade railing Smarties with my boys, circa '87 or so. I also remember people bringing sammich' baggies full of Kool-Aid to school and choppin' els with that shit too.

Oh the memories...:D.

Oh the stupidity.

[ryan]

Everyone, I am starting a new website, www.bansmarties.com with the help of Dr. Phil we will get this abomination of a substance off our streets and out of our children's hands!

[Chemical_Boy]

Man, I hate to admit this...I fondly recall the days at the lunch table in the third grade railing Smarties with my boys, circa '87 or so. I also remember people bringing sammich' baggies full of Kool-Aid to school and choppin' els with that shit too.

Oh the memories...:D.

Oh the stupidity.


I was just thinking the same thing......

It was all down hill from there.

[buc]

Oh Wow.........Maggots feeding off the sugary dust in the nose..........oh........yuck.

That's bad.........Your nose is caked with candy.......sugary snot attracts flys.........your so wasted from the candy.......you dont even shoo them away.

[Junkindatrunk]

At least when you have sugary treats in ur nose the drip tastes nice, maybe the kids can mix it with adderall or ritalin and then they can choose which flavor drip they want instead of that nasty orange aspartame stuff.

Grape on tuesday
Strawberry on Wedsnay

yum.

[poonwhalla]

Funniest shit I have read all week! Reminds me of this old comedian that did a skit about the pixie pusher. Just picture a dude in a trench coat lined with pixie stixx on the corner calling out "Yo what you want I got Grape, lemon-lime, cherry, don't fuck around wif that strawberry thats the real head banger. What up I got what you need, how much you want to spend."

[WhyCatsPaint]

WoW!

So are the teachers now considered drug pushers since they often reward kids with candy? :rolleyes:

And next we will see:
Warning: BlowPops lead to fellatio..... :eyebrow:

[ryan]

http://www.apileofdogbones.com/images/uploads/free_candy_van.jpg

[Indy]

No, I think drugs are a gateway drug to smarties.

[StackBundles]

WoW!

So are the teachers now considered drug pushers since they often reward kids with candy? :rolleyes:

And next we will see:
Warning: BlowPops lead to fellatio..... :eyebrow:

From the shit i've seen lately...

Bananas too.

[Dan Steely]

Everyone, I am starting a new website, www.bansmarties.com (http://www.bansmarties.com) with the help of Dr. Phil we will get this abomination of a substance off our streets and out of our children's hands!

that's f'n funny!

wonder how many rolls of smarties ya gotta plug to od

[candy]

Great and I always hand Smarties out at Halloween.
And come to think of it.....
I found my kid once with a tic tac stuck up his nose....Now I know why! He is an addict!

[losangeleslifer]

From the shit i've seen lately...

Bananas too.

Careful Stack, your like rite on the fucking line with that one....

[StackBundles]

What line???

[clinton]

i think he was talking about the age oF the giRl pictuRed in youR banana photo

i could be way oFF though

[libertine]

i remember some fucking asshat in middle school snorting pixie sticks in the bathroom


ahh why do all my memories suck

[lilred0005]

Smarties should be made illegal. Ban Smarties!!!!! THINK of the children!!! Mothers Against Smarties: take up the crusade against this very real threat! Ban Smarties in '09

[youwonhundred]

I'm totally gonna go make a website. Mothers against Snorted Smarties...

Maybe not, I don't have many better things to do with my time but mothers are against enough already

[SHELLEY]

weird kids
i don't believe i ever snorted candy, though my crazy friend did in grade 2-3
but snorting stuff is just awful, i've always hated it

mothers are against enough already

that is fucking hilarious

[Euphoricgirl]

Jesus, wtf is the world coming to. I can see my daughter and her friends watching Dr. phil and thinking smarties? The kids these days will do anything.

[bronyraur]

Unfuckingbelieveable...

If anyone *seriously* think that a piece of candy could lead to drug use, well, they need some common sense beat into them.

[jacky]

back in the 70-80's we didnt smoke or snort the candy...we would just grab/buy what we could, and pour it all into a pitcher of water.
hidden in one of our many forts/hiding places.
the amount of different candy, fireballs, etc was alot.
alot of sugar for a couple of kids.

we would mix that sugary mass up busting up the candys in different ways...and stirring for a long time.
the result was a concoction that could be slammed almost immediately. that was in combination with the soda's and sugary kool aid we were able to talk my freinds mom into.
then we would go over to the local dairy products wharehouse that was in our small lakeside mountain town, and hang out with the kids whos father managed the wharehouse.
their home was right next to the wharehouse.
we would then sneak into the coolers with keys stolen from the home office, and we would quickly grab a case of nutty buddies or other ice cream confections and take off into a secret hiding place.

it was a hole in the ceiling of the old wharehouse....a long ladder could be pulled up once we were up there.
it was an old historic forgotten hide out during prohibition.
there were card tables, old chairs, and bottles of sour home made wine.
it was as if prohibition ended, and the various members of the secret speak easy just left everything and walked away.
we would eat the tops of the nuttie buddies some times, but then just through the remaining waffle cone ends down the hole we came up.
one day, a big hairy brute named Byron caught us up there, throwing product away that we had stolen in the first place.

the amount of sugar us kids consumed back then was impressively disgusting.
alot of that came out of boredom I think.

back then, I craved free time...but was mostly off fishing or hiking with my Dad and Mom, or working on the houses that we were always seeming to be remodeling.
so free time was spent rummaging and sneaking into places we were not supposed to be. stealing as much ice cream products as we could from the dairy wharehouse.
our time was pretty much unstructured outside of chores and camping. we were left to our own.

it doesnt suprise me that kids are snorting and inhaling sugar.
some kids crave trouble and rebellion....
the media and movies seem to glorify that behaviour.
and back then, health stores and grocery stores were almost diametrically opposed.
the hippies and the freaks were the only ones eating really healthy back then.
besides the forest food that my freinds family brought in, their diet was straight up from the white bread racks, and sugar/salt food fads.
my mom didnt allow that type of food at our house.
she was a limited whole foods, old school trained cook.
so there was only soda at our house...but no sugar cereals..no processed peanut butter, pretty much health food and unprocessed whole foods.
we had a garden...
my freinds family didnt.

so it ended up that either of us craved to eat at the others house.
I was always trying to score the sugar foods at his house, which was always easy, because his parents were never around.
my parents were always around in the summers when we had free time.
so I would hide out at his house..a mecca of atari, picture disc movies, cable TV, and sugar foods. everything that I didnt get at my home.

I dont know how we didnt get into drugs back then. I am suprised that we only had one drinking party, and didnt take to drinking for years after the bad experience.
I dont remember anyone doing drugs except my parents freinds at parties I was usually too tired to notice.
and back then the high schoolers that had the drugs, would beat us down if they saw us anyway.
there was little mixing of different ages it seemed back then.
probably because of the backwards/outdoors nature of the town I live in.
kids that grew past 18 usually left for the valley, flatlander city way of life.

sugar was the rush we lived on back then. soda and candy fueled alot of all day bike rides...fort stashing, and porno raids.
food was harder and more expensive to get than candy. I dont remember ever buying food....it was all sweets, and video games.

my brother in law drinks something like 5-6 sodas a day, has an active absesse as we speak, and is loosing his teeth like a meth addict almost.
all from his lack of good diet and consistent smoking and drinking pepsi.

I cant tolerate the sugar like I used to.
though my heroin days were pretty sugar rich.
especially when I was always throwing up from too much dope.
ice cream for a period of time probably kept me alive, as I was throwing up food that took longer to digest about 80% of the time.
I was almost a bulemic in a way.
so slushy sodas, donuts, ice cream, just seemed to offer so much more sustinance than good foods, as I didnt keep alot of good food down.
I think part of the reason that my kicks were so bad were because of the deteriation of my health because of the bad eating habits that predominate when I was using too much heroin.

if cheerios are a drug now, then certianly smarties could be considered a potent isolate with bioactive properities. sugar, the main component of smarties has been a subject(s) of research that reinforcing effects in lab rats are at least a bit stronger than the reinforcing nature of cocaine.
the taste buds win that challenge!

[Angelwolf13]

i'm still a hardcore sugar addict. now i know why. i think...

oh, everyone shut up and pass me the gobstoppers and no one gets hurt!

[dugwylor]

I'm with jacky on the approach to this... the emulation of the behavior of drug use just points out the age-old fact that rebellion in any form, and even just its imitation, is inherently cool to young people. I used to love the candy cigarettes, and I definitely remember kids bringing bags of powdered sugar to school. (It was always a ridiculous amount ... how'd that kid get so much yay? He's got to be a dealer's dealer.)

I know for a fact that one of my primary motivations for beginning drug use has been because you're not supposed to. When a person grows up, they don't leave behind the authority of their parents ... that authority is just replaced by the social order, a far more ruthless and unforgiving lord. Rebelling against that order and ideology is a great source of pleasure, just as it's always been great fun as a kid to disobey your parents. As long as drugs are not acceptable and especially if they remain illegal, they'll always be a lot more fun. These kids understand this, though not consciously. It's those kids who'll experiment just because they're told it's a bad idea. I'll take on any bad idea, so long as I can then make it mine.


By the way, does anyone remember the Upright Citizens Brigade episode on the drug "Supercool"? I think it was basically pixie stix, but it would drive the kids nuts. I love the name. Think you can watch it here (link deleted -- can't find it ... have to buy it for $1.99. Paying for TV... yuck.).

[Spaazkaz]

I remember kids gathering around to watch kids snort pixie stix in the library in middle school. Only the cool kids did it though. The outcasts just smoked weed and blew coke.

[Papa Verine]

I believe I was addicted to sugar before I discovered real drugs. I craved it, and had to have it when I was a kid.

When I was an inpatient at a local (shitty) psych-ward, there was this substance abuse couselor who always made questionable statements. Such as "Every time a person takes the first hit of crack, there's a 50% chance it will kill them". Things like that...

Well, this counselor, whenever he was talking about drugs, would include "Refined white sugar" to the list of drugs. Like he'd say "Cocaine, amphetamines and refined white sugar" do this or that in the brain.

I would think back on my childhood, and how addicted to sugar I was, and actually half agree with him on that one.

[Angelwolf13]

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I would think back on my childhood, and how addicted to sugar I was, and actually half agree with him on that one.

i don't know about that... truth be told, i always keep a 2 lb. box of sugar cubes by my computer at ALL times. it lasts for almost a week.

a long time ago i passed out (the details are foggy) and i ended up in the hospital with a glucose or dextrose iv, i don't remember which. they probably did some blood work, i don't remember, and saw that my sugar level had apparently dropped too low. they released me right after i got up and was better. maybe i'm hypoglycemic? whatever the case, if i don't get my daily sugar fix i end up feeling terrible. perhaps a health care professional could shed some light on this.

"sugar addiction" or "sugar junkie" just sounds more fun to me that "hypoglycemia".

[sky1983]

Bwahahahaha!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEi9kPvLt5k This shit cracks me up. " You can let it roll out." This kid's a pro.