Neatorama: "
The McDonald's Cocaine Spoon Fiasco"
If you were around in the 1970s, you might remember the McDonalds coffee
spoon, which was nicknamed the McSpoon. It was small, well-designed,
perfect for stirring coffee, with a scoop about size of a nostril, and
could hold exactly 100 milligrams of cocaine. Of course, most people
used the disposable spoon to stir sugar in their coffee, but it was the
Model Drug Paraphernalia Act that brought the minority use of the spoon
to the general public. Under the act, which was only enacted at the
state level, innocuous items such as baggies and straws could be labeled
a "drug paraphernalia."
Hence, these are now collectors items! (
Related story.)
