December 1, 2007
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Drugs and Candy
Police are concerned that new mint packets that are made by the Hershey Co. look too close to illegal drugs.
The concern is that the look of the candy will “glorify the drug trade.” Here is the link: Link
Do you think that the Ice Breakers glorify the drug trade?
Comments (92)
damn they do look alike…
nah
Probably a little bit, why else would you package a mint product like that? It doesn’t seem to be very convenient to me.
I’d take a stick of gum or a solid mint over that any day.
Weird. Well, they do LOOK like drugs….I’m not sure it would “glorify” the drug trade, but people are definitely going to think of drugs when they see them.
I saw a little girl at the mall the other day with candy dipping tobacco. Now THAT is bad.
They can try to glorify
but it’s all a lie
Candy is bad for body though
Eating it is not a good hobby
Maybe candy should be outlawed too
But then to the black market we would go
A sky-rocket of candy price would show, so no!
posh it will be fine when kids take drugs thinking that they’re candy
I’ve before been confused and thought empty packages I found lying on the ground were from drugs. . .eventually I solved the puzzle.
GUM!
The packaging for some gum is similar to the packaging I see with you know, some of the medication I’m on.
I also remember this one time–hearing a story from somebody on xanga—about how they found some pill of their kids they thought was a drug but didn’t know which kind, and didn’t directly ask the kid
They went behind his back and tried everything to find out what it was. . .it turned out to be a tic tac?
that if you didn’t find in a bottle of that stuff you wouldn’t know the difference. . .
I don’t think of drugs when I see that.
Then again, I don’t do drugs and I don’t associate myself with those who do, so that may have an influence in it.
ahaha, I want to try and take that on a plane.
Counterfeit candy
Counterfeit drugs
Everything’s handy
In reach. So don’t make a speech.
Take it and make it enter your body
It may be bad, but maybe you’ll find it rad?
But don’t be had by cost, don’t be had my addiction. You need to have some restriction.
Or you will lose it all.
It will be a wall.
So tall you know what’s beyond, but can’t see out of the dirty pond!
glorify it? no. but it definitely looks like a baggie.
oh wow… thats kinda scary
NO. Icebreakers are all I eat when my breath is bad!
not really.
They might not glorify the drug trade, but I’m sure kids will try to use Ice Breakers as a way to smuggle drugs into school and other places. I remember a popular trend when I was in high school was vodka in your Aquafina bottle.
Of course, I never thought that they should ban Aquafina and I don’t think that they should ban Ice Breakers.
Looks like something that will get you in trouble with the police if you get pulled over for anything. Candy is not worth the inconvenience and hassle.
It does look like it, maybe a bad idea for a product. But to glorify drugs, I don’t think so
I think they’re fine.
We did jack danials in in ice tee bottles
My students will be annoying about it I’m sure.
That’s pretty interesting. I wonder what the Icebreakers folks were thinking? Weren’t Pixie Stix bad enough??
man they do look like drugs. i think ti si bad because drug dealers can use that to try to sell to kids.
They do, but whatever.
I once knew a girl who hid her LSD in listerine packets.
not really
ya sure. until the kids try to snort the ice breaker and light their sinuses on fire. it almost works as drug prevention when you look at it that way…
Haha, that does look like drugs! lol.
o___o
i personally wouldn’t mistake that. you usually have to cut coke, first. that’s already powdered. i’m going to go out and get me a fat rock of icebreaker now.
I agree with elvesdoitbetter. Let kids try to snort that shit. I think that would deter them from trying ANYTHING like that again, lol.
Drugs glorify drugs.
No.
Though they do look a lot alike.
The question is will I be able to get them past airport screeners with them in my anus?
Does anon remmber “candy cigarettes?” How about those “bubblegum cigars?” This is not a ne trend. And asother people have mentioned, when a kid wants to use drugs and alcohol they start to get invenive on how they can store and transprt the alcohol and dugs. When I was in highschool I used to bring Vodka in Sprite or 7-Up bottles. Sometimes, I would even mix Jack Daniels with a Bottle of Caca-Cola. No one except my closest friends suspected a thing. Nowadays, kids are getting way sneakier.Somone aleady mentioned LSD on Listerine strips, I too have heard of and seen this. I’m sure that these new Icebreakers will be used by some sneaky, messed up kids to store and transport their drugs.
THE FOLLOWING IS A RANT ABOUT HERSHEY, PA ANDHAS NOTHING REALLY TO DO WITH DAN’S POST.
I’m just a simple country gal from WV. I live in Campbelltown, PA, right between Hershey and Palmyra. I used to live rght in the middle of Hershey. Actually I used to live a block away from the Heshey Chocolate factory. Then w moved about a block away from the Reeses Factory, which is also in Hershey. The only good thing about living in Hershey is stepping outside your door and smelling the chocolate, roasting almonds, or roasting peanuts, dpending on what day it is. Other than that, Hershey is filled with a bunch of chocolate covered turds. Everyone is so smooth and sweet on the outside. On the inside, they are full of shit. I would NEVER reccomen anyone to move to Hershey, PA, unless they are very rich socialites who are into the politics of rubbing elbows with the who’s who of the burbs of Harrisburg PA.
lol, no. anyway, pixie sticks are the same thing…
“The question is will I be able to get them past airport screeners with them in my anus?” AristotleForDummies
If you try you anus will be minty fresh.
Lol! I think it’s funny, and it is hardly likely to convert kids into drug users. I used to eat those candy cigarettes all the time growing up (our icecream man sold them to us) and I have yet to touch a real cigarette.
wow i have never seen those.
and yes
honestly anything can glorify the drug trade.
o.O
Nice. Reminds me of those candy sticks that looked like cigarettes– I remember in Elementary school we’d pretend they were…. but yeah, pretty sure kids won’t like the feeling of that mint stuff in their nose (although, some people like to snort pixie sticks candy)
haha. no i just think they look awesome.
I just made a comment to someone about this which I think I’ll share here.
you could use the ice-breakers to be “tough”
Some kids around you are bragging about all the drugs they’ve done and very casually you slip-out the “non-drug candy” and pop a mouthful into your mouth.
Suddenly, a silence falls. One of admiration and bewilderment.
Stares are sent your way. . .
Candy is not worth the hassle tassel.
Treat them all like drugs, and your body won’t be bugged.
Unless you like drugs, then goodbye day. Addiction will stay!
Maybe. But some would buy it because of that.
It’s like BC Powder.
I don’t know that glorifies it is the right wording, but it does look like drugs.
Doesn’t look good.
That’s what they look like? Glad my brother didn’t bring them to school!
The Police will have a heyday with these. They may not glorify drugs but they look enough alike to get your car searched or the drug dog’s visit. So ya better be squeaky clean if you do carry it around.
So finally im not the only putting a little minty freshness into my cocaine
These new Ice Breakers do look sketchy, and also horribly inconvenient. I’m trying to imagine needing a mint and tearing open one of those packets without getting the powder all over the place. I just don’t see the practicality in a product like this.
The Cocaine energy drink seems to be doing well enough. Though the feds wanted them to officially change the name of their product, which they did, to “No Label”. I don’t see why else these guys want to package mints like this.
My absolute condolences to whoever tries to snort that stuff.
-David
No, it is mint.
oh yeah. just looking at those mints makes me want to do a line.
Not really.
You mean, b/c it looks like white powder?
What, are they gonna go after sugar makers next?
i don’t know if it will glorify the drug trade but the looks are wayyyyy too similar.
That is too funny.
that’s just hilarious. who’s bright idea was that?
Nah, I don’t think so.
It’s already glorified. What Hershey is doing won’t change anything.
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I just know the idiots I hang out with are going to think they’re “creative” and find a way to sneak in more drugs…
A little, but glorify? Not likely.
NO!! If that is the case, they should have gotten rid of tic tacs a long time ago!!
Dude, what do you think is the appeal of pixie stix
No, if people think drugs look so cool then they can fake it with the mint packets and look plain awesome. Personally I don’t think drugs make you look cool but society thinks that kids think so. Besides, mints are waayyyy cheaper.
I wouldn’t have thought any thing about it looking like drugs if you hadn’t of said anything. But now that you’ve said something about it, it does look like cocaine..
“I like sex and candy… yeah mhmm”
Looks like something that will get you in trouble with the police if
you get pulled over for anything. Candy is not worth the inconvenience
and hassle.
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mundanejane
Good point. I don’t know if they “glorify” drugs, but they’re probably not the best thought out candy out there.
Oh my god we should totally focus on CANDY instead of focusing on the issue of drugs itself. Good ol’ America!
That reminds me of the candy cigarettes. Haha.
Considering that they use the word ICE in the name, I would say that was the intent all along. Shame on them.
BAHAHAHAHA
Yes, and I am an addicted smoker today because my parents let me eat candy cigarettes as a child.
i really think the police are overreacting the packs look pretty cool to me
omgee.
yeah i don’t think i’d let my little brother buy that any time soon…
I don’t think it glorifies drug use, but I do think it is scary because children who are familiar with the candy could easily mistake real drugs for the candy.
If I had that much blow right now, I’d be a very happy and high person.
Wow – I didn’t know they had powdered ice breakers. It doesn’t seem that hard to sneak drugs via a package – my friend likes to sneak codeine from canada (over-the-counter in canada) in prescription bottles for something else.
> No, I think the ‘Chief’, police, whatever person needs his head examined….
Peace
Dam so thats what I was snorting last night.. JK, the gov is kinda dumb if I wanted some stuff to sniff I would go a block or two down the road and have all I wanted, why sniff Ice breakers when you could have the real thing?
*note the only type of drug I do is alcohol.*
no…because you dont snort it
if it was made 2 be snorted or injected
then we would have a problem…
yikes… maybe that is a little too close…
that packageing could get you shot in detroit.
hello?! they do it on purpose bekuhz if it looks more like drugs, ppl wuld more likely buy it. knowing that even tho its not drugs, its still “cool”. but come on now, no company is stupid enough to actually do anything. its just a mint!
…They’re MINTS, for crying out loud! Who cares?
It’s often surprisng to me how many people have actualy tried to snort pixie sticks.
Scarey stuff man…that’s the reason why we don’t do Halloween……
They look more like the little blue packets of salt they used to in packs of plain chips (crisps for the UK english speakers)
“Glorifying the drug trade” is a scare tactic just like on the religion channel where they say that businesses “Promoting same-sex lifestyles.”
It’s pretty messed up to try to play on ignorant people’s fears like that.
It does kind of look like drugs0_o
Either way…someone will snort it.
Haha.
yep.
Yep, looks like drugs to me…
Interesting.
Hugs, Tricia
Those things are weird.. the packet dissolves!
wow. kinda makes you wonder.
it does look like something you wouldn’t want to have in your pocket if you got pulled over for speeding and a cop wanted to search you.