Marijuana-Flavored Candy Blasted

[The Straight Story]

Marijuana-Flavored Candy Blasted

ATLANTA -- Marijuana-flavored lollipops with names such as Purple Haze, Acapulco Gold and Rasta are showing up on the shelves of convenience stores around the country, angering anti-drug advocates.

"It's nothing but dope candy, and that's nothing we need to be training our children to do," said Georgia state Sen. Vincent Fort, who has persuaded some convenience stores to stop selling the treats.

The confections are legal, because they are made with hemp oil, a common ingredient in health food, beauty supplies and other household products. The oil imparts a marijuana's grassy taste but not the high.

Merchants call them a harmless novelty for adults and insist they advise stores to sell only to people 18 and older.

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[benburch]

1. Hemp oil is good for you!

I see nothing wrong with this.

[FloridaPat]

2. They had chocolate cigarettes when I was a kid. Are they still around?

There also use to be cabbage cigarettes in the 70's. When you lit them up, they smelled like marijuana and the first couple of puff tasted like it too. Then the taste went to cabbage. I pulled a trick on a police friend of mine in DC. I put one in his pack of cigarettes. He was with his boss when he lit it up!

[ComerPerro]

3. Yeah, I'll be sure to pick some up next time I buy non-alcoholic beer

Which, of course, has beer's somewhat bitter aftertaste without the buzz.

[SteppingRazor]

4. Aw, what's the big deal?

Hey, you know what would be even better than marijuana-flavored lollipops in convenience stores?

Marijuana.