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36 comments to "Hershey Candy Made to Look Like Drugs"
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Inna
December 1st, 2007 at
10:04 am
is it wrong to want to buy this?
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June
December 1st, 2007 at
10:04 am
Pfft. If your small child can get his/her hands on a pack of real drugs, then simply put, you’re not watching him/her well enough.
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Cigr
December 1st, 2007 at
10:42 am
Ok, I’ve bought alot of drugs in my misspent youth.
I want to know who these drug suppliers are that heatseal the packs.
This is just more silly FUD in the war on drugs. -
Pudifoot
December 1st, 2007 at
11:07 am
It sounds… minty! I want one!
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Anonymous
December 1st, 2007 at
11:20 am
Yeah, sure June. Cause we all watch our kids ALL THE TIME. Since we don’t have jobs. And they don’t go to school. And they don’t have any friends. We must just be bad parents if we’re not watching them like a hawk all the time, and it’s entirely our own fault. Never blame the corporation, the corporation is good and provides us with treats.
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June
December 1st, 2007 at
11:44 am
Seriously “anonymous” no one’s going to leave a pack of drugs around for kids to take. Where’s the profit in that? It’s not like drugs come cheap! By “child familiar with the candy could mistakenly swallow a heat-sealed bag of drugs” the article suggests that one can find these things are just lying about, which is full of misleading.
Must have hit a nerve, huh?
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Lauren
December 1st, 2007 at
11:52 am
My friend noticed that they looked a little peculiar, too. http://bradaptation.com/?p=504
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floporama
December 1st, 2007 at
12:17 pm
Maybe I’m naive, but am I the only one who had no clue that drugs came in little heat sealed baggies? I’m too far removed from my high school years, I guess. The last time I saw someone buy drugs, they were still wrapped in a little piece of aluminum foil.
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Fezdango
December 1st, 2007 at
1:22 pm
wow this product totally makes me wanna destroy my life with narcotic drugs.
thanks Hersheys!
gimme uh-break…
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Sandman
December 1st, 2007 at
1:52 pm
So its wrong to have something look like something else? Oh my gosh the oregano I put in my spaghetti sauce looks like weed, ban it from store shelves!
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uhh
December 1st, 2007 at
2:49 pm
This doesnt really matter but crack cocaine isn’t powder its the base form of cocaine.. if im not mistaken.. not that it matters anyways.
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Rob
December 1st, 2007 at
3:13 pm
Yeah, I think the bigger danger of this stuff is stupid people passing it off as drugs and then getting stabbed by some angry junkie who paid twenty bucks for it.
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Steohawk
December 1st, 2007 at
3:36 pm
Hershey’s made an ingeniously designed candy that accidentally looks like those heat-sealed drugs that nobody’s ever heard of. Now some cop thinks that the candy “glorifies” the drug industry. This reminds me of those idiots who thought that a certain flavorful alcoholic beverage (can’t remember the name) was too “appealing” to kids.
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biltmore
December 1st, 2007 at
4:09 pm
Stupid cops.
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Geoduck
December 1st, 2007 at
4:11 pm
no one’s going to leave a pack of drugs around for kids to take. Where’s the profit in that? It’s not like drugs come cheap!
“He gives the kids free samples
Because he knows full well
That today’s young innocent faces
are tomorrow’s clientele…” -
Thomas
December 1st, 2007 at
4:16 pm
Well, it does look a little like a baggie of coke, but I’d imagine that the candy’s price couldn’t be mistaken for $40. Besides, those “heat sealed” bags are just tiny plastic zipper bags, like ziploc. They’re usually fairly airtight, so there’s a good chance that even if you were stupid enough to swallow a $40 bag of coke, there’s a good chance you’d pass it intact.
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xan
December 1st, 2007 at
5:23 pm
The controversy is that the mints suspiciously seem to be designed after drugs. It’s too much of a coincidence that they had this design idea without a knowledge this way of packing coke. Strange move.
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Anita
December 1st, 2007 at
6:27 pm
They could at least color it …
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k
December 1st, 2007 at
6:27 pm
lol what about Pixy Stix? the world’s future looks so promising <3
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Mauso
December 1st, 2007 at
6:35 pm
Some of you who made comments seem to think this was an innocent mistake. These are called ICE breakers for a reason. The cop was right when he said “it glorifies the drug trade”.
However, just because there’s “no reason” for the product to be on the shelf, doesn’t mean Hershey’s can’t market it. As long as it’s not an actual drug, only Hersheys has the right to decide if they want to sell it.
You’d need to be very daft to confuse this with a drug or vice versa. Especially if you eat any old powder you find on a table. Only a fool would do that.
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fz
December 1st, 2007 at
7:29 pm
It’s cool, I’d buy some for the novelty, but it’s also completely unnessecary. I can’t see this being on ths shelves for too long.
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algonkin
December 1st, 2007 at
8:23 pm
Good point Anita…
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bobby fisher
December 1st, 2007 at
10:38 pm
mauso read my mind.
this has nothing to do with kids getting confused between the candy and drugs and accidentally consuming the worser.
its like those cylindrical sticks of gum that had more than a generous amount of powder(<?) in them, back when i was in 4th grade. and if you put one end in ur mouth like a straw and blew, the powder would blow out like smoke. hence, imitating a cigarette.
and im sure all of you remember the bags of big-league-chew gum. imitating chewing tobacco.
this is the same type of principle, ‘glorifying’ something otherwise looked down upon.
kids are quite impressionable. and if they are told something is cool by tv and advertisements, then it is cool.
kids dont often know the difference or real reasons that drugs and/or tobacco and/or alcohol are actually bad. and it is the cool thing to imitate what older, ‘cool’ individuals do…c’mon people… this is all about some sort of morality in advertising. its novelty to us who understand. but its really a bad idea to be telling kids this is cool…
btw, the oregano comment was from right field.. wtf.
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Crudely Wrott
December 1st, 2007 at
11:32 pm
Well, if it has gained popularity and has earned mention, it must be OK. Me can has some?
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Gaby
December 1st, 2007 at
11:51 pm
@Mauso:
Ice Breakers were called that before they started to make these bag stuff…‘Tis looks like a novelty thing, like the beer flavoured Halls candy.
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Lasse
December 2nd, 2007 at
4:19 am
The oregano thing: Yes, we must ban oregano, because a child familiar with oregano may accidentaly put weed on a pizza.
And water too. A child familiar with water may accidentaly drink a glass of vodka.
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ted
December 2nd, 2007 at
8:02 am
I remember eating Popeye cigarettes as a kid. They changed the name to candy sticks at one point. I haven’t seen them for years.
Face it, it’s a stimulant-based society. Kids are taught to glorify the juice they drink in the same way alcohol is glorified - “drinking this will make you cool”.
I don’t think it’s a great idea to be giving kids bags of sugar, anyways - at least, not before bedtime.
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Bryan
December 2nd, 2007 at
8:38 am
My Mom wouldn’t let us kids have candy cigarettes or Big League Chew because she felt they encouraged tobacco use. Not that that prevented me from smoking during my Mr. Phony Rebel College Boy years, but I get what she was driving at.
I remember some kid snorting Pixie Stix and everybody thought he was an idiot. -
emailejunk
December 2nd, 2007 at
11:26 am
Oh the irony! There is a boycott being organized against Hershey’s since they are suing a CA man for mocking their product names with his marijuana candies. Yet Hershey’s see no problems marketing candy crack to consumers (mostly children)?!?! Boycott Hershey’s I say!
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4961.html -
Thomas
December 2nd, 2007 at
12:03 pm
I miss candy cigarettes. I loved those things. They can’t help it that they make you look cool.
BTW, may come as a surprise, but crack and coke aren’t the same drug. Crack is made from coke, but in a smokable form: crack = rocky chunks broken down from a larger piece, somewhat resembling pieces of wax, whereas coke = a pure white powder.
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Marie Issah
December 2nd, 2007 at
2:47 pm
For sure it will only attracts attention..
LEGAL ATTENTION!hehe
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burt
December 2nd, 2007 at
4:28 pm
i remember buying those gum cigarettes and big league chew, heck you can still find big league chew out here.
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algonkin
December 2nd, 2007 at
4:56 pm
Here in Canada, we used to sell Licorice pipes and cigars…still do!
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Malignant Monkey
December 3rd, 2007 at
2:23 pm
On the extremely off chance of this cop’s theory being a real potential occurance: GREAT! Some kid who routinely eats this candy and who’s parents also leave drugs lying around in said child’s reach could possibly consume the drug and therafter possibly die. The name for this process is evolution of the species by natural selection, and we seriously need more of it in today’s world.
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susie
December 10th, 2007 at
5:50 am
I invite all of you who are interested to sign the petition. Go to the blog that got this all started at http://watchfuleyefoundation.blogspot.com/
SPECIAL REPLY TO MALIGNANT ASS - Whoops,sorry Malignant Monkey - If there was such a need for as you call “process of evolution of the species by natural selection” I would hope that even those that think as low as you would not even be choosed for the “natural selection”…that is the difference between a person who has nothing better to do and a person who is thought to have nothing better to do. I work with the part of the world that deals with lower standards, lower income, drug & gang world. Believe it or not, there are children, toddlers who “find” drugs laying around and the saddest thing in the world is when you see a little tiny body placed in a body bag for the sake of what? Drugs, stupidity and money.
Those of you who really understand - you know where we are coming from on this. I have seen too many lives messed up from drugs. Anything that WE can do to prevent it - whether it is a lookalike package or whatever - lets just do it. You people that get this “I dont give a shit” attitude, well, someday I hope you do. Before its too late. -
Nigel Spunk
January 26th, 2008 at
7:52 am
Quickly I need to know where I can buy some of this stuff, I need a “FIX” of candy RIGHT NOW! Please hurry my body is craving sugar right now. HELP!
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