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Friday, March 17, 2006

Double Puff Oreos

Posted by on March 17 at 10:29 AM

While busting a pot operation, the DEA found candy and soda products laced with pot

Confiscated items reportedly bore labels including Stoney Ranchers, Munchy Way, Rasta Reece’s, Buddafingers, Pot Tarts, Double Puff Oreo, Keef Kat, Twixed, Budtella, Puff-A-Mint Pattie, Puffsi, Bong’s Root Beer, and Toka-Cola.

The feds say they’re worried that pot-laced candy and soft drinks will tempt children. Don’t know about kids, but I’m certainly tempted. Double Puff Oreos? I’ll take a case. Make it two. Still, as a responsible pot user, I wouldn’t want any kids to get their hands on Double Puffs—not on my stash, at any rate. Because, as one DEA agent quoted in the story said, ‘[kids who] get their hands on these products [will] think they are just normal candy or soft drinks.”

It just goes to show you that people who grow and sell pot are monsters. It practically goes without saying that the responsible folks who produce and market legal intoxicants would never, ever create products that children might mistake for normal candy or soft drinks.

Oh, wait. Any poor kids who run across these alcohol popsicles might be confused…

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And the new malt liquor beverages that resemble energy drinks might confuse kids…

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To say nothing of the “100% Fruit Juice” line of “alcopops” that Anheuser-Busch is rolling out

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…alcoholic fruit drinks in such flavors as strawberry with passion fruit and cranberry with peach. The St. Louis company recently invited editors at some of the nation’s top women’s magazines for free manicures and facials at a Manhattan spa, where they sampled the drinks…. A fall 2004 poll of 12- to 18-year-olds by the AMA showed the extent of girls’ exposure to ads promoting alcopops…. The poll found that more girls swigged alcopops in the previous six months than teen boys (31 percent versus 19 percent)…

Yeah, lock up the pot dealers and pot growers. They’re a danger to the kiddies.


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Freaky Ice! Holy crap, let's get this party started!

I think I saw a "pot monster" once on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

A) Depending of the age of the young person she may already have access to pot.

B) Still, that's no reason to encourage the use by young people.

C) However, one cannot control it unless it is regulated.

D) And that would require legalization.

E) An argument could be made that by not legalizing and regulating pot, the government is marketing it to kids in a twisted way.

And people wonder why statutory rape is up. It's one thing to lure young girls with Zima, but "alcopops"? Anheuser-Busch is almost making it too easy.

Bacardi Breezers are the bomb (if you read the accompanying article). I go to England about once a year or so to visit friends, and every year I bring an enire empty suitcase just so I can fill it full of goodies (Hula Hoop potato chips, Double Decker candy bars, and Bac-eezers) and sneak it in.
Luckily, they now have them in Canada, in delightful flavors such as Strawberry Smoothie and Pina Colada.

Sorry, *enTire empty suitcase* It's Friday.

My 11 yr old saw a Sparks sitting in my fridge and asked if she could have it thinking it was soda. I think Alcopops would be too dangerous to keep in the house with a child, but they sound wonderful.

Alcopops?! This is going to be one hell of a summer!

The candymaker's real crime was the 7th grade level puns they used for their products. For that alone they should be sentanced to death.

I love the trey sophisticay martini glass with orange peel curl shown in the Alcopops ad. Even 12-to-18-year-olds crave sophistication in these luxurious times. Nothing gets a bunch of sexy sexy preteens in clingy satin and too much makeup up and dancing like a couple of rounds of fancy cocktails that taste like candy.

If Nabisco made Oreos with TCH in 'em those elves would be richer than our man BG.

Hehehe, yep. One of the makers of these fine products is from where I currently live- Lafayette, California, and was only a few blocks away. I feel so honored.

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