The title is misleading. He was in trouble not for bringing sugar, but for bringing a product and claiming it was a drug. The "just kidding" comment does not erase the claims he made.
OMG. A voice of sanity and reason. Be still my heart.
"This falls under the statute of "look-alike" drugs because that is how he presented it to his friends. Had he showed the sugar to his friends and said "this is sugar for a Science experiment" there would have been no punishment.
The title is misleading. He was in trouble not for bringing sugar, but for bringing a product and claiming it was a drug."
But the handbook bans "look-alike drugs", not verbal statements about sugar being coke.