Prohibition - of candy

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Banning candy in high school has a predictable results - black market, higher prices, etc.

When Austin High School administrators removed candy from campus vending machines last year, the move was hailed as a step toward fighting obesity. What happened next shows how hard it can be for schools to control what students eat on campus.
The candy removal plan, according to students at Austin High, was thwarted by classmates who created an underground candy market, turning the hallways of the high school into Willy-Wonka-meets-Casablanca...

Soon after candy was removed from vending machines, enterprising students armed with gym bags full of M&M's, Skittles, Snickers and Twix became roving vendors, serving classmates in need of an in-school sugar fix. Regular-size candy bars like the ones sold in vending machines routinely sold in the halls for $1.50.

The Austin High administration, which won't elaborate on how much or little it knew about the candy black market, has since replenished the vending machines with some types of candy.
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Quoted via Reason.com
http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/

CBL
 
I'd give those kids an "A" in business class. Also in psychology -- I wouldn't really want candy until someone told me I couldn't have it.
 
They sound like future GOP'ers. I hope they're "lobbying" the principal to keep the prohibition going ...

Charlie (entrepreneurs, the French don't even have a word for them) Monoxide

PS to deflect anyone correcting me, this quote was not made by GW, but I still think it's funny
 
Boy, flashbacks to John Fitzgerald's The Great Brain at the Academy... anyone ever read that series?

Clone of Tom Sawyer if I recall... (the title character, not the story)
 
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Boy, flashbacks to John Fitzgerald's The Great Brain at the Academy... anyone ever read that series?
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Yes! I loved those books as a kid, and to my delight, I found them all this summer when clearing out my parents' attic.

And you're right, that's what happened in the book. Candy was prohibited, so he opened a black market candy store. Only being smart, he required all customers to leave the wrappers with him, thus removing the evidence.

Being a cynic in these modern times, I suggest that the kids should have offered a cut of the profits to the principal, and thus remained in business. Isn't bribery of officials standard procedure in running any sort of black market operation?
 
Eh. I did that in 7th grade. A lot of us did, in fact, until the administration made a rule against selling candy.
 
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