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' '''Strawberry Quik meth''' was a drug scare which continues in 2017. Drug dealers were allegedly using coloring and flavoring to disguise [[methamphetamine]] as Strawberry [[Nesquik|Quik]], thus making them more appealing to children. The story was widely reported in the media, but no cases of children using flavored meth have been verified and is just a prank and/or a media scare.🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 ==Drug scare== [[Emails]] reported that drug dealers were using [[pop rocks]] to disguise the taste of meth and market it to children.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,269532,00.html |title=Arkansas Police Say Dealers Using Strawberry Quick-Flavored Methamphetamine to Hook New Users |publisher=FOXNews.com |date=May 1, 2007 |accessdate=2013-08-13 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110424150003/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,269532,00.html |archivedate=April 24, 2011}}</ref> Emails began to circulate, claiming that meth was being disguised as candy and given to unsuspecting children. [[Snopes]] has reported that while colored crystal meth exists, and flavored meth may exist, there is no evidence of it being given to children.<ref name="Snopes">[http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/candymeth.asp Snopes report]</ref> It is notable to point out that drug dealers seek clients with a regular source of income, which precludes many children.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clermontsheriff.org/MethLab1.aspx |title=How To Recognize the Signs of a Meth Lab |publisher=Clermont County Sheriff's Office |date= |accessdate=2013-08-13}}</ref> Strawberry Quik has also been widely reported in Southern Africa, but it has not yet been verified or proven. Newspapers often state that the drug is being handed to children through school fences in candy wrappers or packets. ==Existence of colored or flavored meth== Sometimes meth labs will try to brand their crystal meth product by coloring it in order to make it seem unique and to give it more market appeal.<ref>{{cite news|last=Leinwand |first=Donna |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-03-25-flavored-meth_N.htm |title=DEA: Flavored meth use on the rise |publisher=Usatoday.Com |date=2007-03-26 |accessdate=2013-08-13}}</ref> Police and drug enforcement officials have conjectured that the idea for "strawberry meth" may have come from such a process.{{CN|date=September 2014}} Law enforcement and treatment providers in [[Nevada]] and [[California]] have reported the distribution and/or use of flavored methamphetamine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.justice.gov/archive/ndic/pubs26/26594/strat.htm |title=Strategic Findings - National Methamphetamine Threat Assessment 2008 (UNCLASSIFIED) |publisher=Justice.gov |date=2012-06-15 |accessdate=2013-08-13}}</ref><ref>[http://www.justice.gov/archive/ndic/pubs23/23934/drgovr.htm DEA Web Site]</ref> Strawberry-flavored meth was seized in an apartment in [[Carson City, Nevada]] in January 2007.<ref>{{cite news|author=F.T. Norton |url=http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20070129/NEWS/101290107 |title=Strawberry meth seized in search |publisher=Nevada Appeal |date=January 28, 2007 |accessdate=2013-08-13}}</ref> It is also possible for poorly synthesized batches of methamphetamine to have a pink or very light reddish color. This is most likely caused by the colored dyes present in over the counter drugs used in the production meth, such as cold medicine containing ephedrine. This coloration would most likely be the result of improper or poorly executed synthesis of meth. While coloration is rare, it is often marketed as having more desirable qualities such as greater potency or less incidence of negative side effects, though there is no consistent evidence to back up such claims. This kind of tactic (marketing unique looking drugs as being better in some respect) is very common among dealers and drug users. The presence of added flavoring and of added color are independent. Crystal methamphetamine-based preparations may be colorless but flavored, may contain coloring but no flavoring, and may be both colored and flavored.{{Citation needed|date=August 2013}} ==See also== * [[List of misconceptions about illegal drugs]] * [[Blue star tattoo legend]] ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928051340/http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/collin/mckinney/stories/050707dnmetquick.45b89d94.html News report from WFAA-TV channel 8 in Dallas, Texas] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080611234336/http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/localnews/news8/stories/wfaa070506_mo_poprocksmeth.43d63c26.html Another news report from channel 8] * [http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_strawberry_meth.htm Strawberry Meth/Lander County Schools in KS/DEA Update] * [http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-204_162-2752266.html Candy-Flavored Meth Targets New Users] CBS, February 11, 2009 * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120320142651/http://www.justice.gov/dea/programs/forensicsci/microgram/mg0109/mg0109.html “FLAVORED METHAMPHETAMINE” IN EVERETT, WASHINGTON] Microgram Bulletin, DEA [[Category:Drug culture]] [[Category:Methamphetamine]] [[Category:Urban legends]]'