In his recent segment, John Oliver joked about Pixy Stix training kids to do cocaine and it reminded me that I used to do just that. Although I never used the straw, I just leaned in, closed one nostril, and went for it. I was in 5th grade, it made my friends laugh.

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    23 hours ago

    Here’s my pixy stix story from my youth. Went on a backpacking trip with the boy scouts. As I’m sure many of you know, when a group of boys comes together in the wilderness, their IQ drops a good 20-30 points.

    Anyway, I was dared to lick some horse manure for a huge pile of pixy stix. Huge. I was about to do it when a scout leader came and blew a gasket on me. He was pissed. Went into a tirade about e. coli and everything. I’m sure he punished us somehow but I can’t remember how.

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      3 days ago

      A mixture like that plus crushed up smarties or something got all powdered candy banned at my elementary school because kids were carrying around big bags of it and snorting it at recess. Can’t be a coincidence that we were doing DARE at the same time

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        2 days ago

        We just used to crush up smartees(US) in the wrapper, and pretend it was a joint. The puff of dust was always a nice touch.

        -“Kids, don’t huff paint!” -“Holy shit, you can huff paint?” -my DARE experience in a nutshell

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    2 days ago

    good way to get aspirated lungs, and pneumonia. you only snort cocaine. even cinnamon is dangerous if snorted, nutmeg too.

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      Thankfully, I already had weak lungs as a kid, so it was like a double jeopardy situation. They can’t get you with the same illness twice!

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      3 days ago

      Yeah, it burned a lot. I don’t know where I picked it up, but I remember knowing enough to say, “Smooooooth” to make people laugh.

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    3 days ago

    Saw a kid do a rail of pixie on the bus one time. They said it burned. I’d believe it, with all that citric acid in there for tartness.

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    2 days ago

    Nope. But my friend snorted sour skittles powder on a dare. The aftermath was like he had been pepper sprayed.

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      2 days ago

      I’ve done that too. Not sure if my friend forced it in my nose or if I did it intentionally but I remember it was absolute hell.