Moms have the tendancy of being paranoid and careful when it comes to their children. My mom and a group of friends always email each other about interesting news articles they have read/heard about on the news. This is the most recent one:
“New drug in Schools…
Please pass this on even if you do not have kids in school. Parents should know about this killer drug. Grandparents, send it to your family and friends.
This is a new drug known as ‘strawberry quick ‘.
There is a very scary thing going on in the schools right now that we all need to be aware of.
There is a type of crystal meth going around that looks like strawberry pop rocks (the candy that sizzles and ‘pops’ in your mouth). It also smells like strawberry and it is being handed out to kids in school yards. They are calling it strawberry meth or strawberry quick.
Kids are ingesting this thinking that it is candy and being rushed off to the hospital in dire condition. It also comes in chocolate, peanut butter, cola, cherry, grape and orange.
Please instruct your children not to accept candy from strangers and even not to accept candy that looks like this from a friend (who may have been given it and believed it is candy) and to take any that they may have to a teacher, principal, police etc.immediately.
Pass this email on to as many people as you can (even if they don’t have kids) so that we can raise awareness and hopefully prevent any tragedies from occurring.
Click on the link below, it is very informative!! All Parents need to know this!! “
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,271215,00.html
So we have all grown up hearing from our parents that we should never take candy from a stranger. Personally, i never took it seriously because as a child you are always too naive to think that anything bad could really happen to you from something like a candy bar. In this case, there have been instances in the area where kids have died of a drug overdose from eating what they thought was a candy bar. It is from times like this that worry our parents and make them paranoid. Drug dealers are trying to seduce young kids into drug use .
