No More Pot....Candy

[Kyyle23]

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/16186311/detail.html

 

ATLANTA -- Georgia retailers soon will be banned from selling candy flavored to taste like marijuana to children.

 

Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue signed a measure into law Wednesday that bans the sale of "marijuana flavored products" to minors -- anyone under 18 -- and calls for a fine of up to $500 for each offense.

 

The measure takes effect July 1st.

 

It targets businesses that sell the candies with drug-inspired names such as "Kronic Kandy" and "Pot Suckers."

 

The law says the candies promote drug use.

 

Senator Doug Stoner pushed the bill in the senate. "I don't think that folks are aware this is going on," Stoner told Channel 2 in April. "It's mainly, from what I can tell, particularly targeted to minority communities."

 

State Representative Judy Manning said she was shocked to receive death threats over the bill to ban the candy. "Some people think their rights are their rights," she said.

 

Manning said the Georgia Bureau of Investigation traced her e-mail threat to Great Britain. “You just deal with those kinds of folks and do the best you can. But it sends the wrong kind of message to kids.”

 

Vote Hemp, a national organization that promotes the use of hemp products and tracks legislation, says the measure would make Georgia the first state to ban the sale of the candy to minors.

 

So let me get this straight, a guy named Doug Stoner is banning the sale of marijuana flavored candy? Is this for real?

[shipps]

Even if you were a pothead I dont think you would like the FLAVOR of pot.Just the flavor would be pretty unsatisfying.

[Soxy]

Actually, this candy might be a good way to make kids NOT smoke pot. If they come to associate the taste of pot with no reinforcement (no high), it may be more difficult for the subsequent taste of pot to be appetitively conditioned if paired with a high.

[jackie hayes]

Actually, this candy might be a good way to make kids NOT smoke pot. If they come to associate the taste of pot with no reinforcement (no high), it may be more difficult for the subsequent taste of pot to be appetitively conditioned if paired with a high.

Absolutely. And school cafeterias should start serving non-alcoholic beer, too, dammit!

 

That said, the Flintstones chewable pot-flavored vitamins still have to go.

 

 

 

 

 

(Just messing with you, Soxy... )

[Soxy]

Absolutely. And school cafeterias should start serving non-alcoholic beer, too, dammit!

 

That said, the Flintstones chewable pot-flavored vitamins still have to go.

 

 

 

 

 

(Just messing with you, Soxy... )

It's an odd suggestion, and wouldn't ever cover the peer pressure and other "human" elements--but from a pure Skinnerian standpoint it should work.

[jackie hayes]

It's an odd suggestion, and wouldn't ever cover the peer pressure and other "human" elements--but from a pure Skinnerian standpoint it should work.

Yeah, I understand what you're saying, I was just trying to be flippant. Though those "human elements" are certainly more important than the conditioning, here.

[kjshoe04]

Who wants to eat something that tastes like pot? And are we talking the smoke or the leaves. Neither of which I'd say I want to eat.

Edited May 7, 2008 by kjshoe04

[jackie hayes]

Who wants to eat something that tastes like pot? And are we talking the smoke or the leaves. Neither of which I'd say I want to eat.

Maybe like the brownies? Mmm mmm MMM!

[Soxbadger]

Itd have to be some really exotic flavors (train wreck, purple kush) etc.

 

And even then i dont really see many people eating it.

 

Odd item.

[shipps]

"It taste like burning".