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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 familys and friends.
There 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, etc. immediately.
Pass this 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.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,271215,00.html
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 familys and friends.
There 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, etc. immediately.
Pass this 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.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,271215,00.html
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Thanks Marina! Thank you sooooo much for this info! I'll be talking with my 16 year old daughter, and my 22 year old son! And will have them pass the info on to school friends (of my daughter's) and buddies (of my son's).
Just found this on the web also
The unknown author of that alert has it wrong nothing we encountered in our research supports that person's allegations about the drug's "being handed out to kids in school yards" in Arkansas (or anywhere else) or that "kids are ingesting this thinking that it is candy and being rushed off to the E.R. in dire condition." In all our research, we didn't come across a single news story about children who had ingested the substance because they mistook it for candy, whether they were subsequently treated at a hospital or not. Likewise, we have consistently failed to find anything that would support the claim that Strawberry Quick is being handed out in schoolyards. Both those claims appear to be the product of the e-mail writer's imagination.
In October 2007 the "updated" version was once again updated, this time dropping the "Checked this on Snopes and it is true" claim and adding in its place a "Halloween Warning for Parents" and the signature of a Homeland Security officer. But other than that, nothing changed there were still no news stories about actual incidents supporting the updated version's claims of kids' being given the drug in school yards and being rushed to emergency rooms:
Halloween Warning for Parents
There is a type of crystal meth going around that looks like strawberry pop rocks. It smells like strawberry also and it is being handed out to kids in school yards in AR. I'm sure it will make its way around the country. Kids are ingesting this thinking it is candy and being rushed off to the ER in dire condition.
It also comes in chocolate, peanut butter, cola, cherry, grape and orange. It looks just like pop rocks.
Please instruct children to not accept candy that looks like this even from a friend and to take any that they may have to a teacher, principal, etc.
Pass this around it could save some family a lot of heartache!
They call it strawberry meth or strawberry quick.
Special Agent Todd V. Coleman
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement
Direct Office Line (956) 753-4678
Office Fax Line (956) 753-4673
Calls to the number given above are answered by this recorded message:
You're reached Special Agent Todd Coleman, with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. If you're calling regarding crystal meth information, that information is false and inaccurate. It was not distributed or originated with this office. Otherwise, leave a message.
In October 2008 the original version of the e-mail (the unembellished one, that is; the one quoted in the Example section at the top of the page) reappeared, this time with a link to a May 2007 FOX News article appended to its base. While that article was primarily about the use in the Dallas area of "cheese," a heroin and Tylenol combination, it said of colored crystal methamphetamine:
Have you heard of "Strawberry Quick?" Its not a kids drink its a kids methamphetamine. Drug dealers mix meth with Kool-Aid in an attempt to make it look and taste better. And again, theres the snappy name. While Strawberry Quick hasnt made a big splash in Dallas, it is gaining ground in other parts of the country.
The May 2007 FOX News assertion to the contrary, nothing had surfaced then or since that showed colored crystal meth to be a "kids methamphetamine." And, while colored meth was beginning to turn up in more parts of the country back in May 2007, it wasn't then (and still isn't) linked to meth use by children. It's colored. It might be flavored. But people aren't using it to hook unsuspecting kids into a life of drug abuse by tricking them into thinking it's candy.
Additional information:
Methamphetamine Information
(DEA)
InfoFacts: Methamphetamine
(National Institute on Drug Abuse)