{"id":10583,"date":"2011-10-13T15:06:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T19:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10583"},"modified":"2011-10-13T12:56:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T16:56:12","slug":"marijuana-shaped-candy-alarms-parents-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10583","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana-Shaped Candy Alarms Parents, Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BUFFALO, NY<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8212; Candy shaped like marijuana that&#8217;s showing up on store shelves around America won&#8217;t get kids high, but aghast city leaders and anti-drug activists say the product and grocers carrying it represent a new low.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Pothead Ring Pots,&#8221; &#8221;Pothead Lollipops&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>Company president <strong>Andrew Kalan<\/strong> said the candy, on the market six to nine months and in 1,000 stores around the United States, promotes the legalization of marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It does pretty well,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUFFALO, NY\u00a0 &#8212; Candy shaped like marijuana that&#8217;s showing up on store shelves around America won&#8217;t get kids high, but aghast city leaders and anti-drug activists say the product and grocers carrying it represent a new low. The &#8220;Pothead Ring Pots,&#8221; &#8221;Pothead Lollipops&#8221; and bagged candy are distributed to retail stores by the novelty supply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}