Strawberry or Chocolate

When you say kids get into everything you usually don’t mean everything but mostly they just end up making a mess out of whatever they can find. Well you might be right when it comes to getting into everything. In the United States a drug has been going around to kids called Strawberry Quick, now it sounds like Nesquik but it is far from it. Strawberry Quick is methamphetamine, it’s a mix of meth and Kool-aid. The mix with Kool-aid was an attempt by drug dealers to make strawberry quick look and taste better. The name Strawberry Quick is a great way to appeal to kids with it sounding like Nesquik and it is less suspicious.

                Selling drugs to kids is becoming a new trend in the United States and dealers know just how to market to them. Strawberry Quick was the solution to get more money off of kids who were recently addicted to cheese, most cheese users when trying to get away from drugs move onto needles if they do survive. Most meth addicts know how much a con Strawberry Quick is, it’s just a way to get money off of addicts, rotting teeth and scabbed skin, they know it’s bad but the withdraw is worse. When trying to get off of cheese the mental and physical pain from withdraw is so unbearable that most go back to using some sort of drug.

The only solution to the situation is to talk about the drugs and raise awareness because otherwise drugs will continue to circulate around the younger generations and lives will be lost. Some parents have taken action to raise as much awareness as they can because they already lost something that meant so much to them, their kids.

What can you do? Fernando Cortez is getting involved. He lost his 15-year-old son to cheese earlier this year. Cortez swears his son wasn’t a user and is haunted by what-ifs. What if he had done this versus that? Would his son still be alive? In the end, Cortez has had to put away those thoughts and channel his grief into something that could save lives. He goes to Dallas schools, speaking out about his painful experience and giving out his cell phone number to anyone who needs to talk. He urges parents to do the same — talk to their kids. (FOX News)

The drug market is always working to find something new. They market to everyone they can and continue to profit without thought about anything. It’s a dealer’s job to market to everyone and everybody and get the best they can from it. With this happening though people’s lives are at stake even people who haven’t gotten to have much of a life so far, it’s just being cut short to make a profit.

(http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/05/10/marketing-drugs-to-kids-from-cheese-to-strawberry-quick/)