I remember as a kid getting into loads of trouble when chewing gum in school. Back then big wads of Bubble gum was all the rage. From Bazooka, Bubblicious, Bubble Yum and even Hubba Bubba the gum that didn't stick to your face and hair if you happened to blow a bubble as big as the Hindenburg.
I've done the detention thing, the wear the gum on your nose thing and the write a 100 times "I will not chew gum in class ever again" thing. Today they have a Gumball that will land you in jail!
These gumballs however are not your typical candy-coated chewing gum but instead are packed with as much as 1 gram of high-grade marijuana. The recent discovery and seizure was made by Maryland police after finding two weed-packed yellow gumballs imprinted with a happy face at a High School in Howard County, MD.
According to the DEA and the Maryland State Police-Forensic Sciences Division Laboratory, each gumball is bright yellow with a happy face on one side and a " bored hole filled with greenish-brown vegetable matter" on the opposite side.
Eeew, talk about a gross tasting Gumball! I'd prefer my Greens tossed in Duncan Hines Walnut Brownie mix thank you very much. Give me a foil wrapped, chocolate covered and filled then rolled in crushed hazelnuts THC Truffle.
But seriously, doing drugs to get high is bad - pushing drugs with yellow smiley faced gumballs to kids is super bad. What bugs me the most is knowing that an adult is behind this entire thing and it is twisted.
I am so glad I am not teaching now there is so much you have to be aware of.