But some people out there think that the Girl Scouts organization was developed to distribute drugs across the United States. One blogger stated that, "in the late 1930s they decided to really get in the game and form an underground drug cartel as a big, "eff you," to the men who had been running the show prior," (Girl Scouts USA = Major Drug Cartel). To me this just seems ridiculous. The blogger later on in the post wrote that the Girl Scouts were a black-market company looking to profit off of vulnerability; "sell cookies, but put DRUGS in them," (Girl Scouts USA = Major Drug Cartel). .
After I saw the meme, I decided to see if it was true or not. Since I found the meme on snopes.com, it already told you if the meme was true or not, but I wanted to make sure. At the time I saw this meme, I had a box of Thin Mint cookies with me. I checked the label of the nutrition facts and saw that in the ingredients section that their was no crack cocaine baked into the cookies. The word that was photoshopped over was sugar, a similar looking substance to cocaine. To make sure that I was correct I also went online to the Girl Scouts website where they give you the nutrition facts of each different type of cookie. .
Finding out that this meme was false and that it was just a humorous picture that someone decided to post, I went out and asked people if they thought that the Girl Scout cookie Thin Mints could be laced with crack cocaine. The 3 people I asked had roughly the same opinion. All 3 thought that it was a hoax. One person said that they couldn't see the organization doing something like that; putting drugs into their products. I asked that person if they could see a different company putting illegal drugs into their products to make them sell. That person said quote "I wouldn't put it past a company today to try and put drugs into a product to make it sell but since there are so many regulations regarding the selling of products, I don't think a company could get away with it.