Energetic Tykes

Nobody knows how or why it happened, but school children in the north-central Mexican city of San Luis Potosi were reportedly receiving cocaine instead of salt with potato chips sold outside a downtown school. The small packets of white powder wrapped in plastic appeared to be salt, but after a few complaints Health Ministry officials checked out the substance and found it to be cocaine, the Televisa network reported in its nightly newscast Thursday.

Nobody knows how or why it happened, but school children in the north-central Mexican city of San Luis Potosi were reportedly receiving cocaine instead of salt with potato chips sold outside a downtown school. The small packets of white powder wrapped in plastic appeared to be salt, but after a few complaints Health Ministry officials checked out the substance and found it to be cocaine, the Televisa network reported in its nightly newscast Thursday.