They keep on stripping our freedoms until we have none.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm pot-flavored candies

Who would want to use pot for the TASTE?!

Ewww!

Nothing said regarding the sale of booze filled and flavored candies.

Personally, I love the prozac flavored chicklets.

Always hated Chicago anyway

dad: Where did you learn to light candles like this? Who taught you to use candles?!
kid: From you alright?! I learned it by watching you!

Why on earth would anyone want a room that smelled like herb? So they could sit there and say, "wow, I'm not high at all. This candle is sweet."

/herb enthusiast, not offended by candle ban

herb enthusiast indeed. No more wake-n-bake for you!

But can I still lick frogs?

Is this REALLY that much of a surprise?

Not that I think these should be banned, but for the love of God, why?

dad: Where did you learn to light candles like this? Who taught you to use candles?!
kid: From you alright?! I learned it by watching you!

Best...PSA...ever.

whydoIlovethevikings

Candles? Dude, you're stoned.

Government intrusion into business. Ain't nothin' like it!

dad: Where did you learn to light candles like this? Who taught you to use candles?!
kid: From you alright?! I learned it by watching you!

Remember, parents who use candles have children who use candles...or something like that.

New York City councilwoman plans to hold hearings on the candies this summer, and an Atlanta suburb passed a resolution opposing them, which caused merchants there to remove the treats from their shelves.

Meanwhile the homeless are still sleeping and pissing in the doorways.

Kid should have responded "I tied you off every day since I was two. Where the fark do you think I learned it, dumbass?"

these need banning:

wretch

smeegle

Excellent point. Your government at work.

Does this mean the end of whishkey flavored chocolates, too?

So...do you get munchies and want more candy afterward?

WTF? First, who really likes the taste? Second WTF? It's farkin' sugar and hemp oil. Oh my god! Kids will next start drinking furniture polish that has hemp oil in it!

/one tin-foil hat please.

These self rightious conservative asshats are really starting to get on my nerves. I remember in the 70's it was Anita Bryant and her ilk trying to ruin the careers gay teachers.
These peple need to STFU and do some work on the real issues.
Dammit all
rant over
//
Hey meester wanna buy a lollipop?

I had a friend who tried these lollipops.


Now he snorts Lik-M-Aid.

Chicago is also now the most taxed city in the USA, they raised the sales tax to a whopping 9%.

People will be going to the burbs to buy thier pot flavored candy anyway. Raising taxes to this extent may very well reduce the tax collections.

sofajocky:
Those are the most effective lozanges on earth. I think they may have saved my life in PLDC [winter in PA]. Yes. They do taste like @55.

I now have another reason to give when people ask me why I moved from Chicago to Europe.
They should ban Root Beer from being served or sold anywhere in Illinois... Kids may associate the "Beer" with the real thing and the next thing you know Budweiser replaces Juice boxes in the ol' school lunch.

Stop the insanity!

Glad its quitin time over here in Europe... need to head off to my local "coffee shop" now for some herb.... ahhhhhhhhh freedom.

9%??? They better be getting free healthcare.

"There are 78 million pot smokers out there (in the United States) ..."

c'mon people, VOTE!

whydoIlovethevikings' post is operating on too many different levels. A+. ( Donald_McRonald; it was intentional)

Next they'll go after root beer in glass bottles because it looks like real beer. From 100 yards away. Damn you A&W for corrupting our youth!

/Wassup!

Just go buy yourself some Brach's and throw them in the catch-bag the next time you mow the grass. When done, remove and enjoy! Blech

I assume the people of Chicago had some say in this, no? I mean, it was voted in as a new law. If that many people want to ban the candy, well, that's your democracy at work. ???

L8knight beat me to it.

DAMN you, A&W!!!

L8knight:

I now have another reason to give when people ask me why I moved from Chicago to Europe.

If things keep heading in this direction there will be an exodus en masse from here, especially if the draft is brought back in order to invade Iran. All that will be left to fight their stupid battles will be rich kids and homeless people.

These self rightious conservative asshats are really starting to get on my nerves.

I'm curious smeegle, how may of the Chicago city council are conservative Republicans. I always thought of Chicago as a Democrat/Union stronghold, am I wrong?

marrowmuse:
"There are 78 million pot smokers out there (in the United States) ..."
c'mon people, VOTE!

The handful of times I've smoked pot in my life I could barely put sentences together, much less get to a polling place and figure out a butterfly ballot.

I guess you can build a functioning tolerance, but it just made me sleepy.

Um, can we please get to the smoking ban first? Thanks.

smeegle

We'll leave the light on for ya'

Just save up some money for gas, its $5.75/gallon over here :( (there is always a downside ya' know)

Tyee:
I'm curious smeegle, how may of the Chicago city council are conservative Republicans. I always thought of Chicago as a Democrat/Union stronghold, am I wrong?

He didn't say "Republican", he said "conservative". You can be a conservative Democrat, which may or may not be the case with the guy they quoted in the article. But anyone who thinks that candy with hemp oil is a gateway to the real thing is pretty conservative, regardless of party.

Try thinking outside of the left/right box next time.

NASTIEST... CANDY... EVAR!!!!

/taste like 100yr old gummy bears minus ANY flavor

Tyee: Chicago as a Democrat/Union stronghold, am I wrong?

I don't kow, it used to be, the Chicago guy is Alderman Edward Burke, who sponsored the measure. The article was also talking about NY City Council member and Atlanta both places somewhat Democratic.
This action however, is rather typical behavior of our present style of leadership all around.

How does one go about banning a flavour?
Can that be done with colour as well?

Um, am I the only one here that's actualy tasted hemp oil? It tastes like nuts, not weed. So these politicians are either lying, or incompetent.

Man... and there I was going to start marketting kettle flavored candy...

COACHWDB-

/lmao!!!!

MWeather: Um, am I the only one here that's actualy tasted hemp oil? It tastes like nuts

Um, am I the only one here who laughed at that? ;)

OK I'll get out of the box, other than Zell Miller give me an example. If possible in Chicago. May be the box fits.

Bukharin: Can that be done with colour as well?

That was done up until the late 60's.
Takes a helluva a lot of work to undo a ban on color.

I don't like the tase og beef liver. Can we ban that?

I'll google Alderman Edward Burke.

Tyee: OK I'll get out of the box, other than Zell Miller give me an example.

Joe Lieberman

Tyee: I'll google Alderman Edward Burke.

Go for it.

Joe Lieberman is a moderate, at least that is the way I always hear him discribed.

Land of the Free, Baby!

L8knight : I thought Budweiser was the piss weak shiat you drank until you were old enough to move onto real beer.

Tyee: Joe Lieberman is a moderate, at least that is the way I always hear him discribed.

They describe Bill O'Reiley that way too.

Swedish Fish > all!

Doesn't surprise me. Chicago also has the tightest gun control laws in the country. Oh jez, pot-flavored candy, run for your lives!

Tyee: 'm curious smeegle, how may of the Chicago city council are conservative Republicans.

BTW I didn't say Conservative Republicans, that was your word.
I said conservative Asshats.
Are you saying Republican = Asshat?

Tyee:
OK I'll get out of the box, other than Zell Miller give me an example. If possible in Chicago. May be the box fits.

My point was that a lot of politicians pretty much put their finger up in the air to see which way the political air is blowing. The Chicago City Council probably knows it's just hemp oil, but don't want to appear soft on drugs.

It's the rare politician that tries to change the political winds rather than blow with the prevailing ones. There's plenty of "moderate" Democrats, by the way -- Joes Biden and Lieberman, etc. Hillary Clinton's a moderate if you look at her voting record - but I'm guessing wherever you're getting your info has demonized her as a foaming-at-the-mouth liberal. And Zell Miller is NOT a Democrat. At all.

MWeather: They describe Bill O'Reiley that way too.

Now him I would describe as an Asshat for sure.

The farked up thing about all this is that not only does hemp oil NOT taste like pot, these candies do NOT taste like hemp oil.

Man... and there I was going to start marketting kettle flavored candy...

Missed opportunity with the headline, that's for sure.

Tyee

Anyone who wants to censor any kind of music/free speech is not a moderate IMO. INCLUDING LIEBERMAN, THE WACKJOB.

This kind of confuses me. I'm mixed. But bottom line, they need to outlaw these to:

VOMIT!? DIRT flavored jellybeans? No child should be conditioned to eat dirt of vomit!!!

OK fair enough, take republican and democrat out of the question.

too.

Worst Candy Ever.


Reminds me of the Christmas dad tried to surprise us by coming down the chimney dressed as Santa. We found him several days later...

Zell is/was a life long Dem, ask the poeple who kept electing him.

Tyee: out of the question.


Uh, what was the question?

I had no idea what hemp oil tasted like, thanks for the education. Otherwise, I stand by my original post.

Thank you, elected representatives, for focusing on insignificant, emotional-hot-button issues that generate kneejerk votes and make our country a dumber place to live.

"I can't imagine the degree and the extent to which people will go to make a buck -- and to make a buck on kids, trying to get them to experiment with something that is going to be a lead-in to the use of marijuana," said Alderman Edward Burke, who sponsored the measure.

Tyee:
Zell is/was a life long Dem, ask the poeple who kept electing him.

Mary Carey (the porn star) is a Republican, too. It's your actions that define you, not your Party.

Besides, Zell is such a crazy angry ol' bat that I don't think either party wants him. But seeing as how he apes the hard right's liberals-want-to-eat-your-children attacks, they love his ass.

I'm curious smeegle, how may of the Chicago city council are conservative. I always thought of Chicago as a Union stronghold, am I wrong?

I get all my candy in Canada, where it's legal.

It's your actions that define you, not your Party.

So a conservative democrat would be an oxymoron?

seaKamp:

Anyone who wants to censor any kind of music/free speech is not a moderate IMO. INCLUDING LIEBERMAN, THE WACKJOB.


Exactly. What we call conservative to day basicly mean one thing: socialy conservative. If you go by the classical definition, few Republicans would qualify.

Chicago is a mob town.

Your party affliation does not matter, because when you boil down to it, those elected were bought and paid for with mob dollars.

From the right to the left, it's all really orchestrated so the mob can continue their strangle hold on the transportation, sanitation and city council.

Transporation so they can 'borrow' city dump trucks when they need to offload 'merchandise'. Sanitation so they can 'dispose' of 'waste' in a fitting matter, and city council so they can get construction permits fast tracked so they can outbid and beat outside agencies to goverment contracts.

The best part about it is that the majority of it seems legit, and as long as the city worker wages remain one of the highest in the nation. (You should see a Chicago Officer pension) nothing will change and the tax will just keep going up.

Didn't they just hike the sales tax again? And wasn't that right behind a hike in the food stuffs tax?

Anyway, if you want to put a box around what the majority of politicians are in Chicago that would have to be Democratic. Some are conservative and some are very liberal, but nearly all of them are democratic in nature.

Tyee: So a conservative democrat would be an oxymoron?

Zell Miller is all kinds of moron. People/candidates who put common sense before ideology prefer to call themselves "moderates" to avoid that oxymoron.

Tyee: a Union stronghold, am I wrong?

While there was a time when Conservative meant fiscally responsible and anti union, that time has gone by the wayside for the New Conservative. They are moslty cooncerned with legislating their definition of morality. Some of those folks are also union supporters.
It's become a crazy mixed up world, except for Lola.

smeegle:
that time has gone by the wayside for the New Conservative. They are moslty cooncerned with legislating their definition of morality

Funny thing is, most people agree with New Testament Christian morality - but it's the Democratic Party that actually practices it.

Republicans are still trying to grasp that whole "treat the least of these as though it was how you would treat Me" thing.

smackem yackem:

Republicans are still trying to grasp that whole "treat the least of these as though it was how you would treat Me" thing.

Zinger! Agreed.

You're all wrong! Circus Peanuts (the orange spongey things) are the worst candy ever

IdBeCrazyIf:
Chicago is a mob town.
Your party affliation does not matter, because when you boil down to it, those elected were bought and paid for with mob dollars.

It's true. Harold Washington was just a really dark Italian.

smeegle:I don't like the tase og beef liver. Can we ban that?

Sure, but only if we can ban the smell of hair perming.
I hate the way those places smell in the malls.

Ever notice they are usually far far away from the food courts?

smackem yackem
.Funny thing is, most people agree with New Testament Christian morality - but it's the Democratic Party that actually practices it.

Not that I want to start a religoin tangent flame but what?

You ever even read the new testement?

None of the parties practice it.

Candy corn leads to real corn.

jcblack:
finally!!! someone made the candy ciggies reference. You beat me to it; hats off to you!

I can't believe it took this long in the thread, though...oh wait, we had to wade through the difference between a "conservative" and a "republican" and have "moderate" defined for us, and have examples given of each...is this thread a 9th grade Civics exam?

Bukharin: Ever notice they are usually far far away from the food courts?

Good point. Nasty smell.
We could start a bill to ban smells that smell like ass and all flavors that taste like ass.
See, world peace, just around the corner:)

Your perception is your reality, and mine is differant but just as real.

thanks for playing

remindme: is this thread a 9th grade Civics exam?

This is me reminding you, to take a pill.

smackem yackem
IdBeCrazyIf:
Chicago is a mob town.
Your party affliation does not matter, because when you boil down to it, those elected were bought and paid for with mob dollars.

It's true. Harold Washington was just a really dark Italian.

Either you don't live in chicago, or you haven't lived there very long yet and aren't aware of it's history.

When elected Harord was consistently berated against and was always up against the city council and it's head Ed Vrdolyak (Who might as well had a price tag on him he was bought over so many times). It wasn't until the court ordered redistricting in 85 until Washington was actually able to get anything done.

Shortly after his re-election in 87 he suffered a fatal 'heart attac'. At least thats the official report. Those of us in the know really know what happened. Shortly after that who do you think came to power again in Chicago?

Another Daley that's who.

Aside from the a few short stints of maybe a year, this town has been in mob hands since the late 1800's

smeegle:
I didn't say I do not agree with a great deal of the political banter. I was just so excited to see those d*amn candy cigarettes. My apologies for overreacting...

*bows*

remindme: My apologies for overreacting...

Me too.
I think the ciggy candies are cool. I quit smoking not long ago, I think it has made me a tad biatchy, sorry for being mean.
So, can I buy you a beer?
How about a lollipop?

Or better yet a beer flavored lollipop.

That way he gets the best of both worlds.

This is terrible. We're going to have to go to Evanston to get our fix!

vodka:

I assume the people of Chicago had some say in this, no? I mean, it was voted in as a new law. If that many people want to ban the candy, well, that's your democracy at work. ???

Well, if that many people think darkies shouldn't go to the same schools as our children, that's your democracy at work.

Oh, wait a minute, we're not a democracy, and this is why.

Chicago City Council bans sale of pot-flavored candies.
Just as long as they don't take away my Crack flavored Gum!

smeegle:
*smiles* Thanks! Beer sounds great, but against company policy to drink on the job...I think. My boss had a glass of scotch the other day, so maybe not.

Lollipop....hmmm, nah thanks, I especially wouldn't dig on the pot-flavored ones, nor the smoking of the pot so that's probably why...but I LOVE the smell of it!

IdBeCrazyIf has the right idea!

Re: candy cigs....I think I'll go have a real one...

/I know...I know...they're bad for ya
//but so are pot-flavored candies...they'll rot your teeth out

As a side note: Bribing Chicago cops to get out of tickets, Still okay.

/YES, it works

remindme: I LOVE the smell of it!

Yeah when I was a young little party animal, I think I enjoyed the smell of it more than the taste.

I read that headline as pot-flavoured candles, which I honestly think would be an awesome idea.
Then I read it was candies, and my first thought was eww. As nice a smell as it is, I cant say Id be a fan of eatting anything flavoured like it.
Now, if they could make pot scratch-n-sniffs, id be up for it.

Someone posted a story awhile back about being with their father going to a cubs game trying to park and encountering a cop.

That was rather amusing, and par for the course.

I got pulled over near lower wacker for an out plate light one late late night. I had been drinking and though while I wasn't drunk drunk, I had a small buzz going. In retrospect I probably shouldn't have been driving.

Anyway, the officer in question asked asked if I had been drinking to which I paused and replied.

"Officer I'm really really tired tonight and I just need to get near Cicero. How much do you think that could cost?"

100 bucks for a police escort I guess.

Better than getting arrested for a DWI and spending the night in lockup while the transportation dept shuffles my car around.

Who would want to use pot for the TASTE?!

Quit smoking the brown stuff. The green stuff is delicious.

THTRTFA (To High To Read The Farkin Article), and most certainly to confused to know if this is about candies or candles?!

If candles... I prefer the real thing covered with NAG-CHAMPA incense!

If candies... just eat the stems and seeds... which practices very nice birth control as well!

2005-06-30 11:49:16 AM IdBeCrazyIf
Or better yet a beer flavored lollipop.


I have some sort of Polish candy thats made with a dark porter.
It doesnt really taste like beer though, much too sweet.

Skillets, taste the rainbow!

/nuthin'

Once again..... gotta love the ad

Thank god they got this candy out of the stores.
Wait, no stores in Chicago even sell this candy yet?

At least Gov Blago will ban video games.

And great gun control in Chicago, where 24 people were shot in under 12 hours this past weekend.

Meanwhile, all this news coverage is probably the best advertising the candy company's ever had. And they didn't even have to pay for it, either.

This tag is for the lame-ass headline.

This is stupid.
People can still order it on-line

You know, I've never heard anyone say "I don't really like getting high, I just smoke (or eat) pot for the taste."

So, can someone explain this to me? I guess it's just a gimmick like the worm in the tequila?

So these politicians are either lying, or incompetent.

a little from column a, a little from column b.

WhyDoILovetheVikings
"dad: Where did you learn to light candles like this? Who taught you to use candles?!
kid: From you alright?! I learned it by watching you!'
=========================================================

Thank you for making my day. I needed a good trip to the 80's.

On a personal note, damn your Vikings for taking Fred Smoot. Wait until training camp starts, he'll steal the show. He's one of the funniest quotes in sports.

smackem yackem [TotalFark]

i think that theres 2 types of people.
multi-taskers, and idiots. and idiots are people like you.
theres no ammount of weed i can smoke to make me 'too high' to where i couldnt figure things out of a complex nature.


weed is basically the same thing as smoking a ciggerate. it gives you a little buzz to relax you. all be weed buzz does last alot longer than nicotine, and taste/smells better. but basiclaly the same thing.

sift:
think that theres 2 types of people.
multi-taskers, and idiots. and idiots are people like you.
theres no ammount of weed i can smoke to make me 'too high' to where i couldnt figure things out of a complex nature.

I also think there's 2 types of people:
People who can figure out when I'm joking, and people who can't.

Relax, dude. Go smoke a J or something.

Oh god let's protect the children from the evil pot candies! It could lead to them injecting Snickers bars or snorting pixie sticks!

Was at Ozzfest one year and some piece of white trash was selling these pot candies. I loved his sales pitch and still laugh about it: "Long ride home? Let's get stoned!"

Yet they still sell Coca Cola, intentionally flavored to taste like the cocaine-bearing coca plant...

Strangely, I kind of agree with this one. If it were cocaine flavored lollipops, would that be okay? Probably not, in our country's Joe Camel atmosphere.

Now, yes, onto the smoking ban. WTF?

Love Chicago. No pot-flavored candies but ...so much free'er (sp) than NY.