
“Jason McMichael, the father of one of the students, told the Journal Star that his 17-year-old son Eric was suspended for two days from Pekin Community High School and not allowed to attend the school’s homecoming festivities after staffers found four students eating energy mint tablets that are marketed like caffeine energy drinks. Michael’s father said school officials later admitted they did not know if the chewable, unmarked mints were, in fact, illegal drugs but upheld the suspensions anyway, saying the teens displayed ‘gross misconduct for taking an unknown product.'”
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/mint-suspended-school-161637649.html
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