Okay, I am going to show you a picture, and you have to tell me what it is:
So what is it? Did you guess crack? Cocaine? meth? Well, believe it or not, it's none of those answers. This picture is actually showing the latest IceBreakers mint pack. That's right...CANDY! Mmm...let's have some!
Next Question: why make candy to look EXACTLY like drugs? PROFIT, that's why. Try some of that delicious meth without any side effects! Act like a cool guy without suffering from heart failiure, short term memory loss, retardation, cancer, dizziness, yellow teeth, insomnia, or all of the above!
Here's another image, although this one you have to imagine for yourself. A thirty-some-odd-year-old guy in suave clothes and sunglasses is walking around a high school. He spots some fourteen-year-old kid walking home from school and hands them an IceBreaker pack. "Hey, I have some to spare!" He says, "I'll give you my spare IceBreakers for just a few dollars."
The IceBreakers industry has already gotten a lot of flack about their product, but unfortunately IceBreakers aren't the only company out there with the brilliant idea of making their candy look like drugs. There's the candy cigarettes, of course. Those have been popular forever!
Now I'm going to show you one last image.
This, in fact, wasn't made by a candy company at all. This is actually crystal meth, but would you guess that on first glance? It's called Strawberry Quik, which looks and tastes just like a candy. But you'll get one heck of a sweet tooth with this one. And there are a lot of drugs like this who give the imitiation of candy to trick kids.
I guess my point of all this is that WHO had the bright idea of making candy look like DRUGS? And I'm not talking about the drug users. I'm talking about the get-rich-quick companies who don't care what they're doing when they sell things like candy cigarettes. I think these days, thanks to the medical world, almost every child is taught that drugs are bad, and are shown what can happen when you take any type of illegal drug. I think anyone will agree with me when I say that drugs are the most disgusting things ever to walk the earth. Drug sellers have been trying to sneak around in the more-enlightened world and sell their drugs without knowing, and these candy companies give drug sellers the perfect angle! And creating things like the IceBreakers isn't even illegal yet! Why would it be? It's IP (Intellectual Property). Although I do give kudos to the people out there who are trying to ban candy drugs from the American industry. I don't think it's right at all.
I'd just like to raise awareness about this issue. You'll see candy drugs on the news upon occasion, but most people don't see how serious the situation is. So I'm giving a shout out and saying, WATCH OUT!
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Next Question: why make candy to look EXACTLY like drugs? PROFIT, that's why. Try some of that delicious meth without any side effects! Act like a cool guy without suffering from heart failiure, short term memory loss, retardation, cancer, dizziness, yellow teeth, insomnia, or all of the above!
They don't exactly look like candy. I mean I can see your idea but I think you're going off the deep end. I like radical ideas as much as the next guy but I mean we need to draw a line somewhere. I'm sure 100s of kids are going to go buy condoms because they look like candy lol.
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I agree that candy, energy drinks, ect. should not be made to look like drugs. I believe it should be illegal for any product marketed or created for children to be packaged in the image of an illegal drug.
It's remarkable that people would even support these products and argue for their existence under the guise of free speech. There is a point where free speech becomes moot, and that line is drawn when it endangers children and makes them comfortable with the images of drugs.
However, I think the real solution here is not the make the products illegal, but to inundate the companies with letters and phone calls telling them to stop.
The ultimate message of consumers would be: Stop buying their products.
Unfortunately, there are many teenagers out there who are easily drawn into their marketing schemes, which is why they are so successful and lucrative. Good luck convincing the sheep to stop being foolish and encouraging illegal drug use to children.
Btw... thank you for not mentioning specific products that are directly merchandising for the drug use, and linking to them. I'm tired of bloggers here on ProU giving them free advertising.
You're going off the deep end, indeed. The only drug that looks remotely like candy is E. It looks like colorful pills. Looks more like medication than candy, actually.
I kinda think for the most part people who are gonna buy drugs are gonna buy drugs. Kids aren't going to be attracted to something because they look like candy; they're going to be attracted to the buzz.
"Powerthirst is crystal meth in a can"
People say I'm going off the deep end? Why? Drugs (the illegal ones, anyways) are bad, and the other day I heard and saw about these candies that people make to look like drugs, and then again the drugs companies and drug dealers make to look like candy. How is that good at all? To me, it seems that drug dealers do it so that kids who had been warned against taking items from strangers don't see anything wrong with it until they're addicted. I saw a story not too long ago about something like this happening, right in my neighborhood. It's just...wrong.
a. Not all illegal drugs are bad.
b. Most illegal drugs do not look anything like candy.
c. Most people who use illegal drugs are not small children who will "take candy from strangers". Your argument makes no sense.
What doesn't make sense? I've yet to hear of an illegal drug that's good, and I'm not saying that all drugs are made to look like candy. Just this new string (like the Strawberry Quik). And there are drug dealers who target children. That's been going on for awhile. *sigh*
actually drug dealers have been caught selling strawberry flavored meth to children on playgrounds in Arkansas.
illegal drugs disguised as candy is not a good idea