{"id":6472,"date":"2006-05-26T15:48:24","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T19:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6472"},"modified":"2006-05-26T15:48:24","modified_gmt":"2006-05-26T19:48:24","slug":"caffeine-cocaine-whats-the-diff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6472","title":{"rendered":"CAFFEINE, COCAINE&#8211; WHAT&#8217;S THE DIFF?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to quote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/education\/9273029\/detail.html?rss=burg&#038;psp=news\">this article<\/a> in its full glory.  Y&#8217;all can just shake your heads in wonder at the utter stupidity of the folks who made this decision:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LOWER BURRELL, Pa. &#8212; A Lower Burrell school student is facing a three-day suspension for sharing gum with a classmate.<\/p>\n<p>Jolt chewing gum has caffeine and ginseng.<\/p>\n<p>The Lower Burrell school superintendent said consuming and passing out the gum violates the school&#8217;s drug awareness policy. That&#8217;s because caffeine is considered a stimulant.<\/p>\n<p>Parents told Channel 11 they did not understand the suspension.<\/p>\n<p>Resident Elizabeth Grombacher said, &#8220;I think it&#8217;s stupid. Everything&#8217;s getting too politically correct it&#8217;s so wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s probably just like Mountain Dew or something like that. If it&#8217;s got a lot of caffeine in it and they probably sell the pop at school,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d parent Nita Serene said.<\/p>\n<p>Jolt chewing gum is sold over the counter at drug stores and vitamin distributors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if there&#8217;s coffee or Coke in the teacher&#8217;s lounge.  Surely, they must be subject to the &#8220;drug awareness program,&#8221; too.  (Tip credit: Ulrike)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to quote this article in its full glory. Y&#8217;all can just shake your heads in wonder at the utter stupidity of the folks who made this decision: LOWER BURRELL, Pa. &#8212; A Lower Burrell school student is facing a three-day suspension for sharing gum with a classmate. Jolt chewing gum has caffeine and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}