Drug Warriors Select a New Target
Hershey’s Ice Breakers Look Like Crack Cocaine?
“Clueless” is Used as an Unintended Description
“Drop the Ice Breakers and step away from the car.”
It would’ve been mildly amusing if it had been satire. After searching the story to see if it was intended to be a humor piece, “Mint or Drug: Is Hershey’s Cracked?” by Jill Porter, Philadelphia Daily News, one is overcome by a sadden resignation.
Have drug alarmists no shame?
Their focus is on a familiar law-breaker: Hershey’s.
The offending candy? Ice Breakers that are so similar to crack cocaine in appearance that–what?
A serious story about several decidedly un-serious people who pose as serious.
FAMILY COURT Judge Lori Dumas Brooks wanted to make sure she wasn’t overreacting.
So she held the small blue packet of powdered substance in her palm and showed it around at work yesterday.
Everyone asked the same thing:
What was she doing with crack cocaine?
Why is it that every time someone over-reacts, they start by saying “I don’t want to over-react”?
The story continues in a National Lampoon-like manner, with the writer joining in the fun.
“I thought she confiscated it in the courtroom,” said Administrative Judge Kevin Dougherty.
No one could believe what the tiny pouch actually was: a new breath mint made by - get this - Hershey’s.
Read the rest of the story:
Drug Death, Thy Name is Hershey’s
Source:
Drug Death, Thy Name is Hershey’s
Mint or Drug: Is Hershey’s Cracked?
Mondoreb blogs at Death By 1000 Papercuts. Interested readers can e-mail him at
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3 users commented in " Drug Death, Thy Name is Hershey’s "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackSuch an unbelievable overreaction. The thing that gets me is that they are claiming that dime-bags on the street are “heat sealed”, when the examples they show are clearly mini zip-lock baggies. No street dealer would bother to use dime-bag sized heat sealed bags. Most don’t even bother to use the mini zip-lock baggies.
Not only that, but they are also saying that it looks like “crack cocaine”, when it is a powder. Do these narcotics experts even know what they are talking about?
I’d also like to know why all these narcotics cops and police chiefs think that Hershey’s product development department would be street drug experts.
Derek:
You hit about 4 or 5 nails on the head with one comment.
You’re exactly right.
‘Unbelievable overreaction’ is absolutely what it was.
I wonder, after all is said and done, if they will be able to live down the statements they made in this?
The sad part is many will read this at Philly.com and take it seriously. Perhaps we should train our “street-naive teachers” what mint smells like before we confiscate the candy and send the kid to Attica. Perhaps now the drug dealers will spray their wares with breath spray to disguise them as IceBreakers. Hershey’s, yet another innocent casualty of the ill-fated “War On Drugs”.
Maybe the inventors of crack should have made it so as to more closely resemble chocolate…
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