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New Hershey’s Candy Looks Like Cocaine

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Bad Decisions, Drugs, Economy

New mint packets being sold by The Hershey Co. look nearly identical to the tiny heat-sealed bags used to sell illegal powdered drugs like crack, heroin and cocaine and glorify the drug trade, a Philadelphia police official said.

Ice Breakers Pacs, nickel-sized dissolvable pouches with a powdered sweetener inside, hit store shelves in November. The packets, which come in blue and orange plastic slide-up cases, are similar enough to drug packets that a child familiar with the candy could mistakenly swallow a heat-sealed bag of drugs, Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector William Blackburn told the Philadelphia Daily News for an article published Friday.

Heads. Will. Roll.

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3 Responses to “New Hershey’s Candy Looks Like Cocaine”

Jeremy Says:
December 1st, 2007 at 9:31 pm
I’m Your Pusherman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S6e8yqoz8k
Dyre42 Says:
December 1st, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Wow that an even bigger screw up than the candy named Dingleberries
Jeremy Says:
December 1st, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Some other “ingeniously” marketed products:

Blow Energy Drink:
http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/11069446.html

Cocaine Energy Drink:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/Cocainedrink.jpg

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