Alf says:

Cake doughnuts AKA fry cakes are a source of nutmeg and cinnamon. Add cup of coffee and you have a dangerous problem.

JPD says:

Next thing you know they’ll be telling us that kids like to spin around in circles to make themselves dizzy. Shocking!!!!

Cursor_ says:

Duh!

This has been around since the 60s. Every year the news “rediscovers” things like huffing, spices, plant concoctions, etc.

I remember as a kid the hash oil toothpicks and the elusive 20 year old morning glory seeds. Foxglove and angels’ trumpet. There is more myristicin in parsley seeds than nutmeg. And making an essential oil from nutmeg or parsley seed is even stronger.

Why you can even make sangria from fruit, sugar and rendered hand sanitiser if you buy the kind with ethyl alcohol.

Face it almost anything can get you high or dead if you want it to.

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chuck says:

OMG! There’s a store just down the street from me (actually there are about 30 of them) which sell hot drinks with caffeine in them, and they actually give you free sugar too!

There are some other stores which sell liquids with alcohol in them! And alcohol has been proven to be highly addictive. In fact, if you drink too much alcohol you could die!

Won’t somebody, please, think of the children!

mentor972 says:

This has been around forever. Further back than my high school days 15 years ago for sure. They’re just now hearing about this? What a crock!

clancys_daddy says:

Lemon-pepper will mess you up.

Steve says:

When I was a boy we took little tabs of Orange Sunshine to spice up the afternoon.

RSweeney says:

Certainly the Budweisser crisis intervention center could arrange to get these needy kids a few emergency cases of beer to save them.

Gary, the dangerous infidel says:

Pure nutmeg seems to be fairly harmless, but it can become quite dangerous when it’s “cut” with ingredients like flour, sugar, and eggs, to name a few of the more common ones. That’s when it becomes especially addictive. I’ve seen a few people who were apparently unable to kick their unhealthy habit, taking increasingly higher doses until they had a heart attack.

NelsonOH says:

Certainly some stimulus money could be earmarked for saving our youth from this bane to society. Perhaps our officials could produce an eighteen million dollar website to heighten awareness and encourage teens to “Just say no” to nutmeg. And holiday eggnog. It’s laced with the stuff.