Pot-flavored candy takes a licking


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ATLANTA - Marijuana-flavored lollipops with names such as Purple Haze, Acapulco Gold and Rasta are showing up on the shelves of convenience stores around the country, angering anti-drug advocates.

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?It?s nothing but dope candy, and that?s nothing we need to be training our children to do,? said Georgia state Sen. Vincent Fort, who has persuaded some convenience stores to stop selling the treats.

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Um. I'm pretty big on not smoking marijuana (i think it's stupid unless you've got a medical condition), so i don't think i'm really biassed on this, and i have to wonder: Why would you complain about this? THERE ARE NO DRUGS IN IT. What the hell.

Sounds disgusting, anyway. Marijuana is gross.

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Why would you complain about this?

As per the post:

(...)and that?s nothing we need to be training our children to do

They are affraid that children would later on to try 'the real deal'.

I would be affraid, as a parent.

However, a good analogy would be the one of 'buying a water gun/rubber grenade to your boy'... Wouldn't he later on be tempted to try 'the real deal'? Probably not, since a gun is far more difficult to get (depending) and harder to conceal, plus, Mr. Common Sense should have something to do with it...

It's not the same with drugs.

They're easier to get and you don't need a degree to conceal them, plus, Mr. Try-out and Mrs. Addictiveness could join the party with no trouble...

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I don't know, that's sorta like saying that letting kids use aspirin or Sudafed gets them ready to abuse prescription drugs in the future.

And anyway, if it was me, and i was going to base whether or not i tried real marijuana on a sucker, i bet i'd be more likely not to try the real thing. Because hemp-flavoured suckers are sick. :/

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As per the post:

They are affraid that children would later on to try 'the real deal'.

I would be affraid, as a parent.

However, a good analogy would be the one of 'buying a water gun/rubber grenade to your boy'... Wouldn't he later on be tempted to try 'the real deal'? Probably not, since a gun is far more difficult to get (depending) and harder to conceal, plus, Mr. Common Sense should have something to do with it...

It's not the same with drugs.

They're easier to get and you don't need a degree to conceal them, plus, Mr. Try-out and Mrs. Addictiveness could join the party with no trouble...

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I agree. Drugs are easier to get than guns. And its more acceptable i think, for someone to smoke pot than to shoot off (couldnt help my self)

PS. love the MR and MRS - like your talking to kiddies. (No offence)

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I don't know, that's sorta like saying that letting kids use aspirin or Sudafed gets them ready to abuse prescription drugs in the future.

Kids use Aspirin and Actifed (Sudafed)? Not in here. And if they really need to take something like that, they don't need to know what we give to them. I just say: "this is something that will make you feel better". They don't need do know/care what it is.

Personally, Mr Common Sense tells me to not start using marijuana :)

Usually, a candy is an item that you can always relate to good.

lav-chan said that hemp-flavoured suckers are sick, which I would translate as bitter/bad-tasting. Well, there are bitter/bad-tasting candies, and children like it because it tastes funny...

If my god-daughther behaves good I may give her a candy.

She associates the fruits flavours in the candies as something good, thus, she eats fruits when I ask her to do it.

That's Mr. Common Sense acting to a 3/4/5 year old children: A candy tastes good/funny and it's a sweet treat and usually a reward. So, what makes the candy is also a good treat.

Using the hemp sucker example:

Later on, you would tell them that hemp/marijuana is a bad thing, it's a drug, and that they shouldn't take use/take it. That would create a conflict, because of their background, and now, the child is in the pre-teen/teen rush years when they usually go against all that you recommend...

A child's background is something dangerous, people...

Don't mess around with it.

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Yes, kids use aspirin and Sudafed all the time here. Not much harm comes of it at all.

Anyway, i'm sort of reminded of this thing called Coca-Cola, which you may be familiar with. It's made using a similar concept to the suckers here. They take the cocaine leaves, but then they remove the actual drug, and they use the rest of it in the soda. But i've never heard anyone accusing Coca-Cola of being a gateway to rock.

Of course, the marketing's a little different, but i'm sure everybody has heard the story about Coca-Cola at one time or another.

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Yes, kids use aspirin and Sudafed all the time here. Not much harm comes of it at all.

Anyway, i'm sort of reminded of this thing called Coca-Cola, which you may be familiar with. It's made using a similar concept to the suckers here. They take the cocaine leaves, but then they remove the actual drug, and they use the rest of it in the soda. But i've never heard anyone accusing Coca-Cola of being a gateway to rock.

Of course, the marketing's a little different, but i'm sure everybody has heard the story about Coca-Cola at one time or another.

Not a good example, because of one thing: Time.

We (the europeans) used to sniff/eat/drink/smoke tobacco when it arived from 'The New World'.

It was a pretty nifty thing and habbit back then, so that's why it is still accepted in our society. It grew up so much that the governments don't shut them down but instead charge them with high taxes.

That's why alcoholic beverages and tocabbo are still legal.

Because of cultural acceptance, sanitary needs and the passage of time over them...

So, yes, at one time there was cocaine in Coca-Cola. But before you're tempted to run off claiming Coca-Cola turned generations of drinkers into dope addicts, consider the following: back in 1885 it was far from uncommon to use cocaine in patent medicines (which is what Coca-Cola was originally marketed as) and other medical potions. When it first became general knowledge that cocaine could be harmful, the backroom chemists who comprised Coca-Cola at the time (long before it became the huge company we now know) did everything they could with the technology they had available at the time to remove every trace of cocaine from the beverage. What was left behind (until the technology improved enough for it all to be removed) wasn't enough to give a fly a buzz.

This is what happened.

Back in those days, cocaine, heroine, etc were pretty cool.

But not for long, so they removed it from the formula.

Because of their marketing, people nowadays don't associate Coca-Cola to rock as in drugs, but to rock as in, youth, fun, movement, music, etc. and also because of the passage of time, they don't remember that Coca-Cola was/is associated with coke (leafs).

What changes, changes.

What stays, stays.

The point is: people didn't know about the dangers of alcohol, tobacco and cocaine back then. But, they do now.

They also know the damage of marijuana too.

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Not a good example, because of one thing: Time.

We (the europeans) used to sniff/eat/drink/smoke tobacco when it arived from 'The New World'.

It was a pretty nifty thing and habbit back then, so that's why it is still accepted in our society. It grew up so much that the governments don't shut them down but instead charge them with high taxes.

That's why alcoholic beverages and tocabbo are still legal.

Because of cultural acceptance, sanitary needs and the passage of time over them...

This is what happened.

Back in those days, cocaine, heroine, etc were pretty cool.

But not for long, so they removed it from the formula.

Because of their marketing, people nowadays don't associate Coca-Cola to rock as in drugs, but to rock as in, youth, fun, movement, music, etc. and also because of the passage of time, they don't remember that Coca-Cola was/is associated with coke (leafs).

What changes, changes.

What stays, stays.

The point is: people didn't know about the dangers of alcohol, tobacco and cocaine back then. But, they do now.

They also know the damage of marijuana too.

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What are you talking about? Cocaine has been around just as long as tobacco. The Spaniards got it from the South-Americans in the 1600s. Even the Pope used cocaine in the 19th century.

And as far as the dangers of tobacco, James I (that's the early 1600s) hated it so much, arguing it was was harmful to the body and offensive to the nose, that the British put a huge tax on tobacco under his rule. People didn't start to consider cocaine dangerous until the 1900s.

Anyway i don't see what any of that has to do at all with the difference between Coca-Cola using harmless cocaine derivatives and 'marijuana suckers' using harmless hemp derivatives. They both work the same way. The only difference is that the marijuana suckers make a big deal out of it being more or less imitation marijuana, whereas Coca-Cola doesn't really go around telling everybody that drinking Coke is just like taking a hit of crack. But it doesn't really matter, because everybody and their mom knows the story about Coke.

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Marijuana tastes like ****.  Why would anyone want to replicate the taste with nothing (good) at the end of it?

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You do know there is more than one type of Marijuana right?

If they had a Purple Cusche flavor i'll try it :D

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You do know there is more than one type of Marijuana right?

If they had a Purple Cusche flavor i'll try it :D

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Rest assured, i'm quite aware of that. It all tastes like ****. There's no candy flavoured Marijuana produced anywhere in this world.

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What are you talking about?

Fat buddah, read my post again.

It's pretty clear and it basicly agrees with everything you said, and adds that some drugs accepted in our society due to cultural acceptance, sanitary needs and the passage of time over them...

This is the truth and I/we really can't do much about it (yet).

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Marijuana tastes like ****.  Why would anyone want to replicate the taste with nothing (good) at the end of it?

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MJ tastes like ****, but hydro doesnt :D

they infer that they have multiple versions of the candy, if they have a dro tasting candy, i would buy it, i love the taste of dro

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