Posted on 05/05/2005 10:48:52 AM PDT by MisterRepublican
ORLANDO, Fla. -- There's a new lollipop in town and its flavor is controversial to say the least. It's called 'Chronic Candy' and it's made to taste like marijuana. Critics of the product say it's one more way to make illegal drugs seem cool.
The little lollipops really are made to taste like marijuana, but there is no THC in them, which is the active ingredient in pot that gets you high. But that fact hasn't stopped critics of this crazy candy.
Beyond the plastic wrapper, buried in the colorful candy is the flavor of marijuana.
"It's not good at all, it's sweet," said Florence Marr after tasting the candy. "It tastes like crap."
Not everyone shares Marr's opinion and drug prevention experts say the sweet stuff will be very tempting to a vulnerable crowd.
"I mean, I'm thinking middle school kids as being really intrigued with this. They're so much at that pivotal point, rebel a little bit. 'It's just candy, mom, how can it hurt me,'" commented Jody Scott, Center for Drug Free Living.
The ad campaign for the pot-flavored pops is almost more shocking than the candy itself, using pictures of marijuana and slogans that make parents cringe, such as "tell a friend, not a cop," and "every lick is like taking a hit."
"Every lick is like taking a hit, that's nice. And then of course, the packaging is called nickel bag. I mean, that's uncalled for," said parent Wade Marr.
"I feel sorry for anybody who needs this to make a living," said Brian Foster.
The man making that living expects it to be quite a living.
"Actually, to be honest with you, you'll hear it first. I'm gonna make a billion dollars out of this," said Tony Van Pelt, the creator of Chronic Candy.
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If you have a rug you want to get rid of, it's good for that. Errr, so I've heard...
Honestly, I can't see this thing taking off. Anyone that has smoked marijuana will tell you that there is a purpose to smoking it - and it's NOT for the flavour. So it's not going to be a hit with pot smokers. Who knows *putting on optimist cap*, perhaps this product will be a deterrent in disguise.
After all, the potheads won't go for it (aside from the novelty value) and kids will try it and think "eww", and associate that horrid flavour with the real thing, and thus never try the real thing. Hopeful much? lol
So after eating the candy, do you get the munchies and crave more candy? lol Yeah, a neverending cycle might make the guy a billion dollars!
These people would have a heart attack if they saw the vending machines in Holland.
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No he's not. He has made a legal product that contains no substances and it is his right as a citizen of his respective state to do so. There are no laws against this. Should we now ban all forms of candy that 'taste' like alcohol? Should we call for beatings of those that work for those manufacturers? To call for him to 'be taken out back and beaten' only to follow up with labeling him 'an amoral POS' is beyond belief and offers nothing.
And no I do not favor the legalization of drugs. However, any 'wars' on illegal substances should be fought at the state level only
That's because we don't think it is OK to put glass in baby food as long as you put a warning sticker on the jar.
Some people want the government to raise their kids because they suck as parents. It's just basic laziness when you get down to it.
Hey, "It Takes A Village".
Not sure what that has to do with totally legal and safe candy, but ok.....
Don't worry, the government will take care of your child for you.
I don't see how it's going to go anywhere.
This should have come from "WTF-TV".
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I don't see it that way - but if that is what he is doing then his lollipops should be outlawed the ways candy cigarettes and buble gum cigars have been.
It seems that many of them are posting on FR.
The difference between this and gum cigarettes and rum raisin ice cream is that this guy is glorifying drug use in his marketing. What a low-life.
He has a right to corrupt minors? God gave him the right to do evil?
How is he corrupting minors?
Now it's evil? How exactly is it a corruption of minors? How about those little bubble gum cigars and cigarettes you used to get as a kid at Halloween? How about daiquiri flavored candy? Is that considered corruption as well? It is a legal product with no contents that are illegal. Also no contents that provide any intoxicating effects? How is that corruption of minors and doing evil?
By that argument, the same could be said of cigarettes, all alcoholic beverages, etc. Except in those instances they actually can cause harmful effects
Romans 14: 2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. 3 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
Matthew 15:11
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
GOD MADE HERB
GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD
GOD GAVE IT TO MAN
Genesis 1:11
Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth"; and it was so.
Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:29
And God said, "See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.
Galatians 6
6 Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
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