Marijuana-Flavored Candy Sold In Tri-State Stores - :: Cincinnati news story :: LOCAL 12 WKRC-TV in Cincinnati
Marijuana-flavored candy is making its way into some [Cincinnati Area] stores and raising some eyebrows.

Chronic Candy has hemp oil in it, and you can find the novelty lollipops in some smoke shops.

Weed-flavored candy is popping up in some smoke shops in the Tri-State. But, good luck trying to find someone who has ever heard of lollipops that taste like marijuana.

“I was intrigued (when first hearing about marijuana flavored candy),” said Kathleen Szabo, never heard of Chronic Candy. “But it was the first I’d ever heard of it.”

“It kind of smelled like dirt,” said Michelle Taylor, never heard of Chronic Candy.

The lollipops are called Chronic Candy and have names such as OG and Train Wreck.

But, how high can you get off Chronic Candy? Turns out, you can’t.

They’re flavored with hemp oil from marijuana plants, but they don’t have any traces of THC, which causes the high people get from pot.

So, if you’re looking to get a buzz, you’ll have to get it somewhere else.

“If people want to eat candy that tastes like marijuana that’s cool, but if it doesn’t get you high, what’s the point?” asked Gene Fine, [who] never hear[d] of Chronic Candy.

The point for the makers of Chronic Candy is making cash.

On their website, they point out the candy is perfectly legal.

While some worry the candy sends the wrong message to kids, others say as long as it’s legal, they don’t see a problem.

“I guess it shouldn’t be marketed to children,” said Szabo. “But it should exist because people have the right to choose things like that if they want to.”

The company’s website says the lollipops are made for adults and sold only in age 18 and over stores.

What I don’t understand in all of this is why lollipops are a bad message specifically for kids, as if adults don’t eat candy.  The candy makers aren’t putting these on the low shelves in a 7-Eleven along with the Snickers and gummi bears - they’re selling it in over-18 smoke shops!

And again, we’re back to the idea of whether a taste should be permitted.  I don’t understand how the non-drug hemp-oil is an acceptable product when it is in a hand lotion or a vitamin capsule.  I’ve seen hemp products like those for sale at the local Target store and nobody was carding minors if they tried to purchase them.  Plus, it’s not as if there are a whole lot of kids eating marijuana; it is usually smoked and that taste is completely different than the taste of the eaten plant.

Finally, as a commenter on our earlier story about the ban on pot-flavored candy in Georgia said, “I remember buying tequila-flavored lollipops that even had the worm in them” as a kid.  How is it that didn’t turn him into a raging alcoholic?