Thread: Police: Hershey candy looks like drugs

HARRISBURG, Pa. - 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.

"It glorifies the drug trade," he said. "There's really no reason that a product like this should be on the shelf."

A spokesman for the company, based in Hershey, Pa., pointed out that each pouch � made by two dissolvable mint strips � bears the Ice Breakers logo.

"It is not intended to simulate anything," said spokesman Kirk Saville.

Saville would not directly respond to questions about whether Hershey has plans to change the product's appearance or whether anyone in law enforcement or inside the company has previously raised a concern about it.

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that is pretty messed up.
and sadly i agree, i don't think something like that should be on the shelf.

And besides, who wants a ground up mint lol

When I read that story several thoughts went thru my mind. First, how drug dealers may sell it ripping off people who thought it was drugs. Second, how many mothers and dads would find this in their kid's pocket and have a fit. Three, how this will be found on some school property and the school officials will call the police and they will have a search of all the students and their lockers and find 20 bags of it and figure there is a drug epidemic in the school and on...and on..and on!

"COJOMAY" wrote:

When I read that story several thoughts went thru my mind. First, how drug dealers may sell it ripping off people who thought it was drugs. Second, how many mothers and dads would find this in their kid's pocket and have a fit. Three, how this will be found on some school property and the school officials will call the police and they will have a search of all the students and their lockers and find 20 bags of it and figure there is a drug epidemic in the school and on...and on..and on!

exactly.. it just seems really irresponsible to make a product like that.
On top of you know some kids will joke around about it too, acting like its drugs. Its just going to cause way more trouble than its worth.



Wow i feel old, i said "irresponsible" i'm not looking at this topic anymore

I'm sure media or other pressure will force Hershey to take this product off the shelves.

But yet they still allow crack pipes, pot pipes, bongs & other drug paraphanellia that is directly related to the use of drugs to be widely manufactured, distributed & sold all across America.

Yet this new mint is drawing that much cotroversy?

It boggles the mind I tell you.

"singersp" wrote:

I'm sure media or other pressure will force Hershey to take this product off the shelves.

But yet they still allow crack pipes, pot pipes, bongs & other drug paraphanellia that is directly related to the use of drugs to be widely manufactured, distributed & sold all across America.

Yet this new mint is drawing that much cotroversy?

It boggles the mind I tell you.

They're decorative glass herbal smoking pipes!!.. lol yea i know exactly what you mean, the first time i walked into a tabacco shop when i turned 18 (i don't smoke anything, legal or illegal) and saw all the one hitters and bowls.. i was pretty shocked

"Vikes_King" wrote:

"singersp" wrote:

I'm sure media or other pressure will force Hershey to take this product off the shelves.

But yet they still allow crack pipes, pot pipes, bongs & other drug paraphanellia that is directly related to the use of drugs to be widely manufactured, distributed & sold all across America.

Yet this new mint is drawing that much cotroversy?

It boggles the mind I tell you.

They're decorative glass herbal smoking pipes!!.. lol yea i know exactly what you mean, the first time i walked into a tabacco shop when i turned 18 (i don't smoke anything, legal or illegal) and saw all the one hitters and bowls.. i was pretty shocked

That's just a vase dude. With an extra "watering-hole" at the bottem.

"jessejames09" wrote:

"Vikes_King" wrote:

"singersp" wrote:

I'm sure media or other pressure will force Hershey to take this product off the shelves.

But yet they still allow crack pipes, pot pipes, bongs & other drug paraphanellia that is directly related to the use of drugs to be widely manufactured, distributed & sold all across America.

Yet this new mint is drawing that much cotroversy?

It boggles the mind I tell you.

They're decorative glass herbal smoking pipes!!.. lol yea i know exactly what you mean, the first time i walked into a tabacco shop when i turned 18 (i don't smoke anything, legal or illegal) and saw all the one hitters and bowls.. i was pretty shocked

That's just a vase dude. With an extra "watering-hole" at the bottem.

Really, my friend told me his was a paper weight.........................