My sources in the High School underground inform me that the illicit candy market is booming.
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What seems to have happened is that the anti-obesity campaign has succeeded in removing junk food (e.g. candy, soda) from school vending machines. However, the students still want candy, and they still have money--so some enterprising students have brought candy to school with the intention of selling it to other students. This is apparently prohibited, though I don't know what the rationale is--whether the problem is candy specifically, or commerce in general.
If I didn't know better, I would have assumed that these policies were put in place as part of a training program in "extralegal entrepreneurship": there is enough of a threat of punishment that the student will contemplate how to avoid detection (and develop the mentality of a habitual rule-breaker), yet the severity of punishment is not sufficient to stop students from participating in this activity.
I suspect that our schools are unwittingly training the next generation of high-school pot-dealers.