BUFFALO, NY  — Candy shaped like marijuana that’s showing up on store shelves around America won’t get kids high, but aghast city leaders and anti-drug activists say the product and grocers carrying it represent a new low.

The “Pothead Ring Pots,” ”Pothead Lollipops” and bagged candy are distributed to retail stores by the novelty supply company Kalan LP of the Philadelphia suburb of Lansdowne. It also wholesales online for $1 for a lollipop and $1.50 for a package of three rings.

Company president Andrew Kalan said the candy, on the market six to nine months and in 1,000 stores around the United States, promotes the legalization of marijuana.

“It does pretty well,” he said.