Ugh.  I was hoping I didn’t have to do the drug talk already.  Well, maybe I wasn’t dreading it so much, but still, this kind of story just gets me angry.

This has been verified to be true on snopes http://www.snopes.com/horrors/drugs/candymeth.asp

This is the version I received in email 

TO ALL IT MAY CONCERN,
 
There is a very scary thing going on in the schools right now that all need to be aware of. 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 if it hasn’t already. Kids are ingesting this thinking that it is candy and being rushed off to the E.R. in dire condition. Please instruct your 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. Please pass this around it could save some family a lot of heartache! That is what they are calling strawberry meth or strawberry quick.

Visit snopes.com (where you can go to check the validity of just about any hoax or urban legend) for more info on this problem, including reports from different states.  Texas is on the list.

Half of me wants to go stalking the streets for drug pushers around our schools and knock the living bejeesus out of them. 

The other half of me wants to go out and buy some Pop Rocks.  Those were so cool!