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ATLANTA — Georgia retailers soon will be banned from selling candy flavored to taste like marijuana to children.

Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue signed a measure into law Wednesday that bans the sale of “marijuana flavored products” to minors — anyone under 18 — and calls for a fine of up to $500 for each offense.

The measure takes effect July 1st.

It targets businesses that sell the candies with drug-inspired names such as “Kronic Kandy” and “Pot Suckers.”

The law says the candies promote drug use.

Vote Hemp, a national organization that promotes the use of hemp products and tracks legislation, says the measure would make Georgia the first state to ban the sale of the candy to minors.

The reefer madness has gone so far that now lawmakers feel they have to criminalize a taste?  How exactly do you enforce a law like that?  Taste is a subjective experience - a child and I may taste the same piece of black licorice, but she might like it and I think it’s the candy of Satan.  There’s a flavor that should be illegal!

Will Georgia have a state-certified tastologist to verify the sticky-ickiness of the lollipops on a case-by-case basis?  Have scientists in Atlanta come up with a Dynometric Tastometer?  What if we call the lollipop “Ganja Grape”, “Bonghittin’ Banana”, or “Cinnamon Sativa”, but they actually taste like grape, banana, or cinnamon?

How ganja-like must a confection taste before it is criminal?  Certainly the flavor of killer freshly-harvested BC Bud lollipops would be a crime, but can we lower the fine if it tastes like Mexican brick ditchweed overcooked in a poorly-made chocolate brownie?  And is there some epidemic of kids craving the mere taste of weed?  Last I checked, sour was really popular, as is chocolate.

I suppose Root Beer will still be legal, though.  That doesn’t promote any drug use by kids, does it?

Seriously, this is a little like the thought police, isn’t it?

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