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So I just came across this news story on how you can infuse vodka into Gummy Bears. The story claims that this is a growing trend among teens in America. Well…now it is. All across the country, kids are on the internet, seeing these articles, and going…”THAT IS A GREAT IDEA!” I love how these news stories work. Kids are completely unaware of these fringe ways to get drunk and high until some local news organization posts a story on how one or two kids in their district tried this, then another local station posts the same story in a different state, and it becomes a growing trend. How many people do you think would have looked at Bath Salts and thought…”I’m gonna snort that” if the media hadn’t gone into conniptions about how it’s the “latest drug craze.” Things like Spice and Cloud 9 would have stayed on the back shelf in the head shops if Fox News hadn’t picked up the story about the “Dangerous legal weed!” Granted, every time this happens they list the dangerous side effects, but what high-schooler is going to look past the words “Alcoholic Gummy Bears” or “LEGAL Weed” in that article except to find out how to make it or where to get it. It really doesn’t help that these local news affiliates treat every single drug like they’re all on the same level. So you get warnings on low-grade spice that sound like the articles against snorting bath salts or even compare them to harder drugs. When you compare the high and side-effects of doing some stupid drug of the day to an established drug, all you do is make idiotic kids think they’re the Martha Stewart of narcotics. They consider themselves awesome to be able to get the same high as drugs X, X and X for the price of a trip to bath and body works or the local skate shop.

These stories that we see every month and a half about the “Next Big Teen Craze” are not about preventing unsafe practices. They’re about creating them. 

On the other hand…I AM TOTALLY MAKING ALCOHOLIC GUMMY BEARS NOW

http://mixthatdrink.com/vodka-gummi-bears/