It's a type of salad green. My younger son made a comment about it the other day, and thats how I found out. He had a friend over and they had been studying in his room for a few hours after school. Now, my son and his friends can really put away the food! They had been eating up all the leftovers from the fridge and when they went outside to call my son's friend's Youth Pastor (for some reason his friend can't get good reception on the phone inside our house) I had decided to straighten up the mess they had made in his room.
Well, boys will be boys, and there were drink cans and chip bags all over the place! They had even cut one 2 litre (I still like to call them 64 oz size - the metric system is so unAmerican) drink bottle in half to get the last of the soda out of there, he's certainly learning thrift from his mother! But I had dusted off the dresser and threw away some wiltey looking spinach that he had on a plate. He doesn't like spinach salad, so I thought he must have brought it in there by mistake.
Well, I was wrong. His friend yelled at him after they went back in "Your Mom did something with my kush!" Thats what it must have been! His friend doesn't do much more physical activity than my son does, but he's skinny and he eats just as much. He must have a healthier diet. I'm so glad that my son is hanging around with him. He's been going to his friends Youth Group activities almost every night now at his friends church. I wish ours had such an active Youth Group. I knew he was a good influence on my son because of that, but with the health consciousness that he's obviously showing, even nice enough to bring over his own healthy snacks so he doesn't put us out by eating our food, I'm going to really encourage the friendship.
So, kush is a salad green. It's not eaten by those pinko hippie vegetarian types, and it must not lead to anything like that, because his friend is as nice as he can be. I think you should get your son the shirt. In fact, you should encourage his better eating habits. Give him some money and tell him to spend it on kush though, not burgers. My husband did that with our son and you would have thought he had given him an extra 10 minutes of television he was so happy! He literally ran out the door on his way to the grocery store! If you want to make sure that he doesn't turn vegetarian, give him an extra $10 and tell him to make sure he spends it on burgers.
One drawback about it is that kush is pretty expensive. It must be fairly new on the market because I haven't seen it at my grocery store in town, but I don't go to the one in the city, and my son must have gone there to get his. When my husband asked him how much he needed for it, he told him $20! That's an awful lot for a snack or light meal! But, if it helps him learn better habits, it's worth it. I also think the price will come down as more kids find out about it and start eating it.
After reading about what it might be, I'm sure you are relieved to find out what it really is! I'm glad I had heard about it before I read the thread though, it would have scared the dickens out of me!