New mint packets being sold by The Hershey Co. look nearly identical to the tiny heat-sealed bags used to sell illegal powdered drugs like crack, heroin and cocaine and glorify the drug trade, a Philadelphia police official said.
Ice Breakers Pacs, nickel-sized dissolvable pouches with a powdered sweetener inside, hit store shelves in November. The packets, which come in blue and orange plastic slide-up cases, are similar enough to drug packets that a child familiar with the candy could mistakenly swallow a heat-sealed bag of drugs, Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector William Blackburn said. "It glorifies the drug trade," he said. "There's really no reason that a product like this should be on the shelf."
Via: Newsvine
I want to know who these drug suppliers are that heatseal the packs.
This is just more silly FUD in the war on drugs.
Must have hit a nerve, huh?
thanks Hersheys!
gimme uh-break...
"He gives the kids free samples
Because he knows full well
That today's young innocent faces
are tomorrow's clientele..."
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.
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.
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.
And water too. A child familiar with water may accidentaly drink a glass of vodka.
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.
I remember some kid snorting Pixie Stix and everybody thought he was an idiot.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4961.html
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.
LEGAL ATTENTION!hehe
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.