Comments on: Hershey Candy Made to Look Like Drugs

By: frankie

frankie — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:00:02 +0000

well said lasse lol

By: frankie

frankie — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:56:32 +0000

all this talk about leaving ur drugs out for ur kids to find if u have drugs around little ass kids like that in the first place ur a piece of shit

By: ileana

ileana — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:53:00 +0000

what is the whole point of this ill tell you its not drugs and if your childen ever get there hands on drugs than thats your foult

By: jamal

jamal — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:20:31 +0000

thats wats up ican fack like they drugs and make some money! and trick the cops?

By: Nigel Spunk

Nigel Spunk — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:52:35 +0000

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!

By: susie

susie — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:50:42 +0000

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.

By: Malignant Monkey

Malignant Monkey — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:23:29 +0000

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.

By: algonkin

algonkin — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:56:43 +0000

Here in Canada, we used to sell Licorice pipes and cigars…still do!

By: burt

burt — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:28:55 +0000

i remember buying those gum cigarettes and big league chew, heck you can still find big league chew out here.

By: Marie Issah

Marie Issah — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:47:25 +0000

For sure it will only attracts attention..

LEGAL ATTENTION!hehe

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:03:07 +0000

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.

By: emailejunk

emailejunk — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:26:30 +0000

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

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:38:30 +0000

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.

By: ted

ted — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:02:38 +0000

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.

By: Lasse

Lasse — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:19:06 +0000

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.

By: Gaby

Gaby — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:51:13 +0000

@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.

By: Crudely Wrott

Crudely Wrott — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:32:30 +0000

Well, if it has gained popularity and has earned mention, it must be OK. Me can has some?

By: bobby fisher

bobby fisher — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 03:38:43 +0000

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(

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.

By: algonkin

algonkin — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:23:20 +0000

Good point Anita…

By: fz

fz — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:29:57 +0000

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.

By: Mauso

Mauso — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:35:45 +0000

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.

By: k

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:27:54 +0000

lol what about Pixy Stix? the world’s future looks so promising <3

By: Anita

Anita — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:27:06 +0000

They could at least color it …

By: xan

xan — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:23:36 +0000

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.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 21:16:22 +0000

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.

By: Geoduck

Geoduck — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 21:11:03 +0000

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…”

By: biltmore

biltmore — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 21:09:51 +0000

Stupid cops.

By: Steohawk

Steohawk — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:36:19 +0000

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.

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:13:20 +0000

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.

By: uhh

uhh — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:49:06 +0000

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.

By: Sandman

Sandman — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:52:14 +0000

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!

By: Fezdango

Fezdango — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:22:10 +0000

wow this product totally makes me wanna destroy my life with narcotic drugs.

thanks Hersheys!

gimme uh-break…

By: floporama

floporama — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:17:23 +0000

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.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:52:38 +0000

My friend noticed that they looked a little peculiar, too. http://bradaptation.com/?p=504

By: June

June — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:44:51 +0000

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?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:20:06 +0000

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.

By: Pudifoot

Pudifoot — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:07:48 +0000

It sounds… minty! I want one!

By: Cigr

Cigr — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:42:34 +0000

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.

By: June

June — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:04:07 +0000

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.

By: Inna

Inna — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:04:05 +0000

is it wrong to want to buy this?