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FDA moves to end snortable chocolate, calling it 'street drug alternative'
Washington Examiner ^
| Dec. 13, 2017
Posted on 12/13/2017 9:39:24 AM PST by deplorableindc
The Food and Drug Administration is warning a pair of Florida companies to stop distributing a snortable chocolate powder, claiming it's being sold as an unapproved new drug and as a street drug alternative.
The regulatory action against Coco Loko comes six months after the product's debut, and after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called it cocaine on training wheels.
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a statement that [a]s a physician and a parent, Im deeply troubled by the unlawful marketing of these potentially dangerous products, especially since they are so easily accessible by minors.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chocolate; drugs; fda
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To: deplorableindc
Eventually, there will be a list of legal food and drugs. Everything else will be illegal. Is this freedom?
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posted on
12/13/2017 9:42:02 AM PST
by
thesharkboy
(Charter member of the Basket of Deplorables)
To: deplorableindc
Great. Now the militarized cops will start killing people for possession of chocolate.
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posted on
12/13/2017 9:42:18 AM PST
by
MeganC
To: thesharkboy
Just as long as Taco Bell doesn’t win the restaurant wars.
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posted on
12/13/2017 9:42:45 AM PST
by
robroys woman
(So you're not confused, I'm male.)
To: deplorableindc
Thw War On Chocolate has failed. We should legalize it and tax it!!!
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posted on
12/13/2017 9:42:53 AM PST
by
LouieFisk
To: deplorableindc
They better not outlaw chocolate!!!!!
To: deplorableindc
First they came for the candy cigarettes . . .
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posted on
12/13/2017 9:43:09 AM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(Headline: Muslims Fear Backlash from Tomorrow's Terror Attack - Mark Steyn)
To: deplorableindc
So glad these fools have time for junk like this. How about fast tracking life saving drugs that are already approved in the rest of the world? What a moribund bureaucracy.
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posted on
12/13/2017 9:43:55 AM PST
by
Bonemaker
(White Southerners have been under attack since 1860.)
To: deplorableindc
Last week I went to the discount furniture store and bought a new snortable for the living room.
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posted on
12/13/2017 9:46:13 AM PST
by
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posted on
12/13/2017 9:46:57 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(This forum is a Doug Jones free zone! Go Roy Moore!)
Surprised this beat snortable coffee to the market
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posted on
12/13/2017 9:48:07 AM PST
by
D-fendr
(Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
To: deplorableindc
So no more packets of hot chocolate then?
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posted on
12/13/2017 9:49:22 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: deplorableindc
That Swiss Miss is a terrible mistress...
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posted on
12/13/2017 9:50:02 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: deplorableindc
crap- just as I’ve developed an addiction to the stuff they go and ban it?
j/k- ‘snortable chocolate’? Lol- never knew it existed-
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posted on
12/13/2017 9:51:13 AM PST
by
Bob434
To: deplorableindc
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posted on
12/13/2017 9:53:45 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: deplorableindc
Waiting for the lawsuits from "innocent victims" inhaling the vapors outside the bakery at the grocery store ... Liberalism is a mental disease.
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posted on
12/13/2017 9:55:12 AM PST
by
so_real
( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
To: deplorableindc
So, by their reckoning, this is just a stepping stone to cocaine?
I wonder if I’ll have to start providing ID and sign a log when I buy a can of Hershey’s, as I do when I buy Sudafed. And get it from behind the counter.
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posted on
12/13/2017 9:55:40 AM PST
by
Southside_Chicago_Republican
(If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: Bob434
j/k- ‘snortable chocolate’? Lol- never knew it existed-Well I prefer just setting up an IV for my chocolate/coffee cocktail. Who wants to both with snorting?
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posted on
12/13/2017 9:56:14 AM PST
by
zeugma
(I always wear my lucky red shirt on away missions!)
To: deplorableindc
♫She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie....Coca!♫
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posted on
12/13/2017 9:57:28 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: zeugma
you must b e ‘nosetingle-aphobic’ lol
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posted on
12/13/2017 9:58:29 AM PST
by
Bob434
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