Harrisburg, Pa. - (AP) - 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 said.

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

It would be smart of Hershey to have thier logo on every individual wrapper!

Anyone see a lawsuit on this one?

haha that's going to come into play when some 8 year old finds their parents "party stash" and thinks it's candy.

Most drug dealers don't use heat sealed bags that cops a ding bat... They use dime bags... (tiny zip bags)

I wouldn't know, LOL.

Either way, maybe the company should do a better job of research for packaging so that things like this aren't even brought up.

And the candy company will be held responsible for the parent's drugs.

Ain't lawyers great...

No the parents would be going to jail for neglect and man slaughter because they left their stash lying around.

Thats very possible! Reminds me of when i was about 5 and found my moms chocolate exlax in the cupboard and thought mmmm chocolate, i ate the whole thing and you can guess where i spent the next few days!

i want some, its gotta be the best way to get sent home from school on a tiresome day and i dont have to do anything wrong. i guess i can only dream about it though lol.

Oh, my goodness! Awww, poor little girl! that must have been horrible!

Well it sure cleaned me out! And when my mom stood in front of me sitting on the potty, she said you got into mommys medicine didn,t you? I still denied it even while i was clearly relieving myself of all the evidence right in front of her!

Of course you were going to deny it! LOL. Awww, the things we do as kids.

I can laugh at this cause I did the very same thing, my mother left hers inside her headboard drawer and I ate them like chocolate candy.

The designer must have gotten a kick out of this.

Now we know a secret...

Hmmm...I see an oppurtunity... ...I wonder how much one of those little things would sell for...

That is rather humerus, however the fact remains that the contents of the package are themselves harmless.

Yeah, and its not Herschey's or Ice Breaker's fault that the dealers are glorifying their drugs with their products. It's the dealers themselves!

Holy crap!

I've been trying to find this type of candy for a long time now. I've looked in Albertson's, Wal-mart, the check-out counters at Best Buy etc. I'm beginning to give up on the search.



I want to get some of this crack-like candy before it's too late! It seems the Hersey's website still has it listed at least.