According to various reports, middle school kids in Maine and Rhode Island are resurrecting a fad that emerged in 2009 by crushing the sugary little candies, using their credit cards to divide the powder into lines and snorting the stuff, cocaine-style.
“The ‘benefit’ for students engaging in this practice is unknown,” a school official in Portsmouth, R.I., told parents. Why a school official would expect an adolescent to do anything because it had benefits is just one thing that puzzles me. Another thing that puzzles me is why junior high kids have credit cards.
In any event, among the non-benefits of Smarties-snorting, nose experts say, are cuts inside the nose that could lead to infection and sugar deposits that could lead to maggots growing in their nasal cavities.
But Smarties aren’t the only thing you might want to cross off your shopping list. Kids reportedly also are abusing catnip (they smoke it), nutmeg (they snort it) and tampons (they … you don’t want to know. ) But if your adolescent shows a sudden interest in tampons, be very suspicious.
Especially if your adolescent’s name is Jacob.
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