Can I just add to this, as another hoax that has sprung up during this is the story that the watermelon juice and skittles were used to create a drug called "Lean" or "Purple Drank"...
Everyone seems to be pointing to
this post in a site called conservative treehouse as their evidence.
I had to claw through the rubbish, but that site seemed to link to 2 sites as its evidence.
The
Urban Dictionary definition is important because not once does it mention the two ingredients Trayvon Martin had on him (Watermelon juice and skittles) in making the drug, and he didn't have the active ingredient (cough syrup - as codene is the actual drug in this equation).
They then claim that it is made with watermelon juice, as evidenced by
this discussion on cannibus.com which they claim shows that watermelon juice is used instead of sprite. It doesn't. It's a discussion of watermelon juice in which someone brings up, off-topic, that they drink purple drank.
Before I confine this to the dustbin of bad memes designed to make a political point, does anyone have any further information about this drink?