For years, parents have worried that their kids eat too much candy. And after a holiday such as Easter, when children are flush with sugary treats, parents that once used to worry about tooth decay and hyperactivity related to over consumption of candy have a new concern to keep them up at night.

Their kids might be snorting the stuff.

Long Island ear, nose and throat specialist Mark Shikowitz recently treated a 9-year-old boy who had ground up his stash of Smarties and snorted them. While this type of bugger sugar is better than finding cocaine in your child’s nasal passages, you don’t have to wonder how the parents must feel when they were told that their precious spawn turned into Scarface with what the Easter Bunny left him. To make matters further befuddling, there is no discernable high in smoking or snorting candy; kids do it because they think it is cool. 18-year-old candy smoker Jeremy Froncek says he hotboxes Smarties “around the house, you know, outside of work, the movie theater. Eventually as I got better at it, you know, it was a just cool thing to do.” While some kids actually do smoke or snort candy (which can lead to infections and even result in attracting maggots that feed on the sugary dust wedged inside the nose and throat of the user, according to Mayo Clinic specialist Oren Friedman), in many of the videos that have sparked the whole uproar on YouTube, kids use the wondrous power of the Internet to pretend to be breaking the law in the time-honored tradition of youth to scare their parents and teachers shitless. Well, it worked. In an e-mail to concerned parents echoing sentiments by educators nationwide, Phyllis Faust, Interim Principal at Hewitt-Trussville Middle School in Trussville, Ala., wrote: “Due to the potential danger, I have made it clear to our students that possession of Smarties (or similar candy) will result in a Class II offense (detention).” Concern over candy smoking leading to the real thing has gotten to the point that when 350 students of the Drug Free Youth Group in Great Bend, Kansas wanted to inform their fellow students about the hazards of smoking with literature from the American Lung Association, they taped the pamphlets to rolls of Smarties and placed them in 600 school lockers with the exhortation to “Be a Smartie.”

Back in 2005, Snoop Dogg endorsed Pot Suckers, a hemp-flavored candy that claimed every lick of the product was like, “taking a hit.” Chicago banned the sale and manufacture of Pot Suckers, with lawmakers arguing that the “hideous candy’’ had only one purpose: to groom another generation of drug addicts. While these politicians patted themselves on the back for a job well done, the unintended consequence of this action was that it made Snoop and marijuana use that much more appealing to some of those this legislation was trying to protect. His profitably is contingent on being perceived as a bad boy and they solidified that image. The same was true in the ’80s when Tipper Gore and the PRMC waged their crusade against heavy metal. The fuss they made about labeling offensive music made heavy metal. Having one of their stickers on your record was a badge of honor. It legitimized your claim of being true deviants and it worked to make the once fringe genre of music of limited commercial appeal into a multi-million-dollar industry.

All parents really have to do to turn kids off to something is to take the rebellion out of the things they want to shield their children from by simply not making a fuss over it. The fuss is what makes it appealing. Better yet, if you want your kid to stop thinking hip-hop is cool, start dressing and talking like a rapper yourself. Doing so would immediately crush its appeal.
Parents, for one reason or another, are too stupid to heed this advice. They have forgotten what motivates deviant behavior in the first place: The joy of pissing you off.        

I posted one of these kids on my blog a while back.

http://www.todorrobot.com/?p=280

But i guess Youtube is starting to pull the files down, so go watch it while you can and be shocked and amazed.