As you may have seen on whichever fear-based news program you lull yourself to sleep with each night, four Council Rock sophomores got in a spot of trouble yesterday when they were caught taking/flipping out on/suffering heart palpitations as a result of taking something called Snurf. Snurf! It sounds so cute! And you know how we are with the new drugs. (See also: Philebrity’s long-standing obsession with finding anyone who has, or is on, khat.) Well, we looked into this Snurf stuff, and sadly, it just seems like greasy kid stuff that makes you freak out and puke, and when you wake up, you’re still 15 years old and living in the fucking suburbs. (AHEM.) Anyway, according to this message board (oddly, message boards are often the most reliable resources in finding info on new/undocumented drugs, which is just sad and awful), Snurf is “marketed” (if you could call it that) as an alternative to Ecstacy, but in fact, it’s anything but. Snurf would seem to be, then, mostly unadulterated dextromethorphan, also known as “DXM,” which you and I would recognize as a base ingredient in cough syrup. So essentially, these kids yesterday got caught on a fools-errand version of robotripping, which seems dumb when you consider they had to order this crap in the mail, wait however long, take any number of risks online, only to uke it all up and freak out, which frankly a bottle of ‘Tussin would have done just fine, thank you. Nice logo, though.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 at 10:52 am.