It is bad enough that medical marijuana dispensaries sell THC-laden candy and food products. It is even worse that their products mimic popular name brands. Examples include “Reefers Peanut Butter Cups” (Reese’s) for candy and “Smoker’s” for THC-laden jelly. They have more marijuana-infused food and beauty products than I care to name.
That was bad enough – but now they have candy, marketed for children and sold in stores where kids can purchase these items called “Ring Pots”, “Potheads” a sour apple flavored candy with a photo of a marijuana leaf and some loser on the package with the work “legalize.” And get this – the candies are shaped in the form of a marijuana leaf.
How is this a good idea?
This is about as outrageous as anything I have seen marketed commercially. Who would actually sell these candies knowing that young kids could be purchasing them?
Would you want your child to be sucking on a “Pot Pop”, a marijuana leaf-shaped lollipop? I don’t think so.
The marijuana-shaped candy that’s showing up on store shelves around the country won’t get kids high, but aghast city leaders and anti-drug activists say the product and grocers carrying it represent a new low.
The makers and vendors of this garbage really need a drug class.
