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Earth_First Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-04 12:39 PM
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No toke! Pot-flavored candy for sale
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City politicians are smoking mad over a line of pot-flavored candies for local customers with the munchies.

Chronic Candy - hemp-based novelty lollipops and gumdrops that claim "every lick is like taking a hit" - is sparking controversy among critics who feel the sweets promote drug use among kids.

"How could we go into market and create a product for children that encourages them to taste the taste of marijuana?" outraged Councilwoman Margarita Lopez (D-Manhattan) said on WPIX-Channel 11, "What is the message? 'Use drugs, that is okay?'"

http://nydailynews.com/front/story/262339p-224621c.html

Yet children are bombarded with advertisements for alcohol and cigarettes by the bushel...
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