You're joking, right?? Do these activists not have anything more important to worry about? How about lead in toys? Come on!!! What a freakin' joke!!!!

Another bonehead idea that was spawned by the bottom line.Hershey has brown on its face and it a'nt chocolate.

It's organizations like Watchful Eye that need to mind their own business and get a real job. Many of us are just plain tired of these groups trying to tell us this and tell us that. They are probably the same "Hippies" and "Yuppies", or whatever trying to feel better for their past sins. They need to listen to Bucky Covinton's lyrics of "A Different World" and just stop trying to tell us Americans what is right or what is wrong for us. Bunch of Fricken nuts! Get a real job folks...........

Well Hershey's sales are down, maybe
they are thinking of getting into a
new product line

Albeit, this is about as LOW LIFE a move as can be made by the industry, it is none the less CANDY. Like a toy gun, it can pose as dangerous, if not a deceptive form of packaging that could bring trouble to your space. Some kids are likely to try it as a form of flirting with drug use... but most probably would eat it. It is the INTENT of the distributer that I question.

Is this the same thing as when McDonalds had to quit using their coffee stirrers because people*might*snort coke from them?Definitly not advocating cocaine,just common sense.You canot ban a product simply because a subversive element might use it for something other than it's purpose.I can see if a child were in the vicinity of crack& this mint at the same time,but then,what is the kid doing around crack to begin with?*shakes my head and backs outta the room*

Uhh, what? Are they serious? If they start confiscating candy and testing it for drugs it's because they're stupid and want to be sued, that's all. I'm seriously mesmerized that people are upset over something so stupid.

Are you kidding me with this? Like your average street dealer is going to take the time and expense to perfectly seal coke in little tiny blue packets and distribute it? and if a kid is stupid enough to not know what he's putting in his mouth, then it's not going to matter what the drug looks like, his "friend" will slip it to him no matter what. blaming Hershey's for the country's inability to curb the drug problem in this country is laughable.

More police and media-driven paranoia. File alongside razor blades in apples and the LSD tattoo.

I'm still upset they got rid of candy Cigs.

I think this is a corporate 'blunder' much worse than Spirit Airline's "MILF" campaign. Here in Philadelphia, our police and DA's office have been complaining to Hershey (located not far from us) for several weeks. We've been getting the same "not our responsibility" reply from the company. Thanks for bringing this awareness to a national scale. This is completely irresponsible of Hershey.

Kiss goodbye to Big League Chew, Candy cigarettes, and childhood.

Well, If that's such a big deal to so many, wouldn't pixy stix be an issue too? You don't hear anything of that..Isn't it just as bad?

So change the texture and/or packaging of the candy, simple as that...If it's going to be a problem.

Plus, There are many other powdered things like, for say, sugars. So, those look like cocaine too. What's to be done. Should anything really be done at all?

Well, the DEA goons already raided a factory producing marijuana-laced candy bars for cancer patients. Hershey better reinforce the doors and get some pit-bulls.. the Feds are coming. BTW, before sending these stupid, packets of candy to an expensive lab for testing, perhaps one of the police officers could dip his finger in and taste it. If it tastes like candy and disolves, it's not cocaine. Why wasn't there this type of uproar over Pixie-sticks... looks like cocaine already in a handy straw!

I don't know what legal matters you would have to go through before doing this, but you could try it. Everyone who has come in contact with cocaine knows that one thing it does is make your tongue numb wherever it hits it. Police officers could request a taste. if refused, take them in. Otherwise, children and teenager are very attune to what is right and what is wrong in a cop's eyes, so if you are approaching and they do not hide it, that is a sign that it is candy. Just a thought

What are they talking about wasting law enforcement resources? What drug testing? All a cop has to do is lightly lick the tip of his pinky finger, touch the powder and taste. Sweet=mint, Sour=Cocaine. Voila!! The drug test was just performed in 2 seconds for free.

Oh - right - drug dealers will make "their packaging ... look like commercial packaging almost exactly". So, why have they not made it look like regular Hershey bars before? Or Three Musketeers? Or those silly little candy suckers that look like a binky? Say... they could make it look like TicTac! Or Binaca!

This simply Marketing at it's worst. What are they thinking. oh yeah Make a Quick Buck!!... it went from gum cigarettes to chews and now Powder.

RW.....kids are likely to try this CANDY as a way of flirting with drug use? You voted for Bush didn't you?

My kid hooked on MINT!!!! No seriously this is kind of messed up. I used to do paid surveys for marketing firms (like Peters Marketing for example) for "Ice Breakers" "Mint a Burst" etc etc and some other candies and the packaging does not surprise me. They do do this crap intentionally. During marketing surveys they will hand out packaging for candies and ask which is more appealing. They also make you sit thru commericals and ask you what you think of them. Kids liked candy cigarettes so candy drugs was only a matter of time.