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Hasn't this happened in every middle school for the past..twenty years at least?

There's always that one kid who makes side money by selling Pixii Stix or Smarties to that group in the lunch room that snorts them up.

GAT_00: I was so hoping they were smashing them and snorting them like coke.

My friend I tried that once in 6th grade. Do *not* recommend!

Aren't there more important things for school administrators to worry about? When I was in elementary school, a kid deafened another by boxing his ears with cupped hands. The principle punished the entire grade school for a week to show how serious the issue was. We weren't allowed to talk during lunch for a full week and didn't get recess either. He had the cops come to talk to each class about criminal charges for assault.

Seward elementary in Minneapolis FTW!

Old news, they were doing this at our school 5 years ago

The only thing more retarded (^) than the subject of the article is the knee-jerk Obama-bashing in the comment section (^).

CraicBaby: For the non-Americans, Smarties in the US = Rockets.

I'm curious as to how many people without advance knowledge of this thought.. "how the fark do you smoke chocolate?"

Only two things have ever been up my nose, and both on a dare...smarties and Dr. Pepper. I wouldn't recommend either.

ChronicallyCanuk: CraicBaby: For the non-Americans, Smarties in the US = Rockets.

I'm curious as to how many people without advance knowledge of this thought.. "how the fark do you smoke chocolate?"

Anyone not from the US, apparently. Happened to me too. Smarties = chocolate. Rockets = sugar.

A Smartie loaded onto a rubber band makes an excellent weapon in school. My high school actually had a candy counter in the lunchroom - and they sold Smarties. It's where I learned about cherry and vanilla Cokes, having grown up in a soda-free health food house.

TheJoe03: The true idiots are the adults that are actually shocked and concerned by this. When I was a kid the ice cream truck sold candy cigarettes and no one gave a shiat.

This, in spades!
We should expect kids to act stupidly; and it's okay when adults join them in what's truly fun. the real idiots are the "grownups"(?) here over recting; not seeming to know they're actually encouraging what they decry.

/recovering pixie stick addict

English Smarties: Like m&ms, except larger, and with a hint of orange flavoring.

American Smarties: Sugar pills.

Nothing alike.

Smoke Smarties for the Shorties!

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For more great foods from Canada.

Smells like viral marketing to me. Smart move Smarties.

Wait until they figure out that powdered non-dairy creamer is flammable.

/former Pixie Stix snorter
//rehab is for quitters

mikefinch: Do you smoke the red ones last?

I came in here to say this and wonder if anyone would "get" it.

dahmers love zombie: Jody Puryear, whose son Grant attends the school has the IQ of a god damned carrot, says smoking Smarties could be a gateway leading "to smoking cigarettes or pot or anything else like that."

/ftft

Everything is a goddamn gateway drug to these morons.

cameroncrazy1984: GAT_00: I was so hoping they were smashing them and snorting them like coke.

There were kids in my middle school that would snort packets of kool aid. Gave you a sugar rush like you wouldn't believe.

Try vitamin C tablets. The ones with rose hips. Dude was dumb as hell.

Welcome to Colorado.
California of the Rockies!

"Let's overreact about everything"

Stupid Columbine-itus

When I was in middle school we would snort pixie sticks (just pure flavored sugar) like cocaine during sports trips. then we would rocket it out of our nose onto the bus windows. For some reason the bus drivers hated the little bastards that we were.

It's not like they where actually "smoking" it. Oh nos they are blowing out the sugar like it's smoke. Normal kids do this in the winter when it's cold out, are they going to try to ban kids from being out in the cold because they can fake smoke.

They should worry more about real problems like kids taking real drugs.

It's not like they where snorting pixy-stix.

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Up here they are called rockets, and smarties are like M&Ms.

CraicBaby: For the non-Americans, Smarties in the US = Rockets.

Thank you! I was imagining little chocolately candy covered things, and it made no sense in the article at all.

It could be worse, they could be 'doing toad' or 'cheesing'.

A friend of mine's thirteen year old daughter told him all about what goes on in her middle school, all the while claiming to not participate in any of these things.

On the list:
Sex, with 12 being the average age
Group masturbation
Smoking/snorting smarties

and the oldies but goodies:
Sniffing sharpies
Pot

ottosmom: When I was a kid, we even had candy cigarettes. I remember two kinds, one was a hard candy that was a white stick with a red tip, the other was bubble gum with some kind of powder on it, wrapped in paper, and when you put one end in your mouth and blew, the powdery stuff would fly out the end like smoke. Big whoop.

/hot like the tip of a cigarette

That's what I thought this article was about the whole time...as for the 18 year old that does this, what the fark?! Shouldn't you grow out of the fake smoking phase by like 14?

Ahh, now I understand why my son prefers smarties over all other candies, especially chocolate. He's a druggie! Better get him into rehab pronto.
/seem to remember hearing about snorting pixie sticks in the 70s
/knew kids that smoked wild grape vines, which would purportedly numb your lips

When I was in 7th grade we had home ec right before lunch period. We used to make our own lemonade, and we'd load it with so much sugar that it'd reach 100% saturation and have about 1/2" of sugar in the bottom of the glass. We'd pound a glass or two of it, then go out and play "two hand touch"* football with one hell of a sugar rush. Then we'd all crash for next period's history class.

Point is, sugar was our gateway drug. We all went on to drink & smoke & take drugs like you would expect from any red blooded American teenager. In fact, you can trace my marihuana and caffeine addiction* directly to 7th period home ec class.

I think it's high time we placed strict limitations on the availability of cane sugar*. It's time we started thinking of the children.

*not really

Jen: I didn't even know they *made* Smarties Cereal!
Moss: They don't. It's just Smarties in a bowl with milk.
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This is so dumb. Kids are so stupid. :o

Smarties are my favorite candy, but I prefer them whole rather than powdered.

There were some kids in my MS who snorted those sour straws--you know the kind filled with powdered sour patch kid crystals.
/white hot pain without equal before or since

They've been doing this for years. Hell, the kids did this when I was in middle school, some ten odd years ago. It's not new, people.

When I was a kid we used to buy these. They were gum or candy wrapped in paper but the inside was coated with powdered sugar so you could blow through it to look like smoke. We all thought it was great.

Meh. Better than poppin Mini Thins like we used to do in 9th grade.

I think it bears repeating that the threat here involves NOSE MAGGOTS.

"I was wondering how you smoked chocolate candies. Oh, they're what we call Rockets."
"I used to buy real candy cigarettes back in the day."
"Smarties taste awful; no wonder they're snorting them."
"My school lunch counter sold these and we stuck them up our butts!"

This thread is like Groundhog Day. It's the same three or four posts over and over.

Lumi: "I was wondering how you smoked chocolate candies. Oh, they're what we call Rockets."
"I used to buy real candy cigarettes back in the day."
"Smarties taste awful; no wonder they're snorting them."
"My school lunch counter sold these and we stuck them up our butts!"

This thread is like Groundhog Day. It's the same three or four posts over and over.

Welcome to fark! You must be new here.

/Look dog, I'm smoking!

Let me tell you a story.

Sixth grade, Cardinal Forest Elementary School, Springfield VA 22152.

I'm bored at lunch with my classmates, and the current drug in the news is cocaine. I am enjoying a pixy stix and spill some. The appearance of the fine crystals prompt my friends to dare me - as it is rare for me to resist a good dare - to snort the remainder of the pixy stix.

Full of bravado, I one-up and say I'll snort the full purple one I have left.

The next 30 seconds went like this:

Rip - tilt - SnRRKNRNNRNNNRNKKKKKK.....

Then the next four years went like this:

Aa. Ah. Aaaah? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
RRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! as I tried everying, including bashing my head against the table, to remove the offending substance from my nasal cavity.

With blood and sugar dripping from my face, I race for the water fountains and proceed to pollute them beyond human use.

Fast forward about a decade.

I'm at a bar. I'm drunk. After relating this tale to MY GOOD FRIEND RON... he challenges its veracity. "I don't believe it. You never snorted a pixy stix." or something to that effect.

"OH YEAH!?!" I cried, incredulous. "I'll SHOW you!"

The next 30 seconds went like this:

Rip - tilt - SnRRKNRNNRNNNRNKKKKKK.....

Then the next four years went like this:

Aa. Ah. Aaaah? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
RRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! as I tried everying, including bashing my head against the table, to remove the offending substance from my nasal cavity.

The moral of the story?

Ron's a real bastard when I'm drunk.

This kid seems like a great example of teenage intelligence.

/hope he feels like an utter retard when he gets older.

Jeremy Froncek, 18, says smoking Smarties is a 'cultural phenomenon amongst twatbags with bad haircuts' and he likes it because 'it not only looks like you're smoking a total douche something but you're not you totally are one.'