Joe Camel Got Nothin’ On This
Last month I wrote about Brooklyn drug dealers trying to take advantage of Harry Potter fans by creating ecstasy pills bearing Harry Potter’s logo. Apparently, Harry Potter wasn’t the only franchise affected:
Have they no shame?
And you thought Gargamel wanted to turn Smurfs into gold…
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August 15th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
I think the difference between the drug culture’s use of childish images and the cigarette companies’ use of childish images is that the adult drug users use images from their childhood as easy markers to identify a specific batch of drugs so that people are safe, whereas cigarette companies use childish imagery to enrapture children.
Seriously, I don’t know people giving ecstasy to kids, and certainly not kids who think smurfs are cool. How old are you? I bet you think Smurfs are cooler than a 16-year old does, thus your comment.
Should ecstasy manufacturers restrict themselves to generic things such as hearts, squares, circles? Why? It makes no sense.
Oh, and btw, not a heavy drug user, but I’ve been around a small ecstasy sub-culture in Mexico, and the LSD subculture at other times.
August 15th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
I actually fear Smurfs. I was told in Sunday school that they aren’t created by God, but are the devil’s minions. Thus the blue skin and pagan dance rituals.