Crack, Heroin, Cocaine, Ice? No, Candy

[GSPODS]

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/071130/480/ ... d27a8uQE4F

HARRISBURG, Pa. - 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 told the Philadelphia Daily News for an article published Friday.

"It glorifies the drug trade," he said. "There's really no reason that a product like this should be on the shelf."

A spokesman for the company, based in Hershey, Pa., pointed out that each pouch — made by two dissolvable mint strips — bears the Ice Breakers logo.

"It is not intended to simulate anything," said spokesman Kirk Saville.

Saville would not directly respond to questions about whether Hershey has plans to change the product's appearance or whether anyone in law enforcement or inside the company has previously raised a concern about it.

[BeeGee]

Man, is that interesting or what? At the very least, it's gotta make you wonder.

[GSPODS]

I can see the headlines the first time children get arrested for carrying baggies of Ice Breakers ...
I would like the police to tell us what shape would not look like drugs to them.

[BeeGee]

I can see the headlines the first time children get arrested for carrying baggies of Ice Breakers ...
I would like the police to tell us what shape would not look like drugs to them.

So true. "Boy killed during suspected drug arrest--drugs later found to be Ice Breakers candy..."

[Hoss]

I would like the police to tell us what shape would not look like drugs to them.

i don't know......
maybe for starters, perhaps candy shouldn't resemble a packet of cocaine.

[GSPODS]

I would like the police to tell us what shape would not look like drugs to them.

i don't know......
maybe for starters, perhaps candy shouldn't resemble a packet of cocaine.

Yes, resembling an eight ball of cocaine would be so much better.
Or an ecstacy pill. Of course, there are several hundred known types of ecstacy pills in New York alone. All of them look different by color, size and shape.

The point I'm making is that there is no safe shape for candy because drug dealers will simply copy any candy design they choose to, and the dealers can copy designs faster than the police can track them.

[Hoss]

g, thanks for clarifying.

[Irn-Bru]

"It glorifies the drug trade," he said. "There's really no reason that a product like this should be on the shelf."

Actually, that's no reason that a product should be taken off the shelf. Maybe we should go into book stores and pull off all literature that features drug dealers, too.

[langleyparkjoe]

"It glorifies the drug trade," he said. "There's really no reason that a product like this should be on the shelf."

Actually, that's no reason that a product should be taken off the shelf. Maybe we should go into book stores and pull off all literature that features drug dealers, too.

Taking the books off would be one way to "break the ice"

Ah? Ah? Yuh like dat? .. "break the ice".. get it? lol..

[Chris Luva Luva]

"It glorifies the drug trade," he said. "There's really no reason that a product like this should be on the shelf."

Actually, that's no reason that a product should be taken off the shelf. Maybe we should go into book stores and pull off all literature that features drug dealers, too.

For the love of all that's good, don't take away my PEZ!

[Fios]

Yet another accident, eh CLL?

[Chris Luva Luva]

Yet another accident, eh CLL?

Nice.