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In reply to the discussion: What Maureen Dowd's Cannabis accident tells us [View all]Crunchy Frog
(26,579 posts)I'm really pretty sure that's not the case. Even if it was, how easy is it to eat that many cough drops at once, compared with eating 1/3 of a candy bar at once?
And if you're going to respond to my posts you might want to try educating yourself. I did not post a picture of a syringe "as an example of what real medicine looks like". I posted a picture of the packaging for a prescription narcotic lollypop (that's "drug candy" to you) that was mentioned by the poster above and compared with pot candy. The fact that you thought it was a picture of a syringe simply highlights the point that I was trying to make. It does look like medication and not candy.
The pot candy looks and is packaged way too much like real candy, and it is way to easy to get an extremely large dose from eating a small quantity of that candy.
The narcotic lollypop that you mistook for a syringe is packaged, IMO, the way that a potent "candy" drug should be. (And no, cough drops and vitamins really are not in the same category. If they were, people would be buying them to get stoned.
And why do you assume that I'm unaware of the problems with abuse of prescription drugs? And why would that issue negate the problems associated with the packaging and labeling of marijuana candy?