{"id":11173,"date":"2016-06-16T19:12:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T19:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=11173"},"modified":"2017-09-27T11:04:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T11:04:16","slug":"photos-showing-just-how-the-marijuana-business-in-the-usa-is-targeting-the-youth-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2016\/06\/photos-showing-just-how-the-marijuana-business-in-the-usa-is-targeting-the-youth-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos showing just how the marijuana business in the USA is targeting the youth market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">The photos below show just how the marijuana business in the USA is targeting the youth market. Young children who would hesitate to smoke a joint are encouraged by the packaging to believe these products are safe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">All these \u2018edibles\u2019 are on sale openly. Look at the cynical way they use genuine products:<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13800\" style=\"width: 269px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2016\/06\/photos-showing-just-how-the-marijuana-business-in-the-usa-is-targeting-the-youth-market\/kifkat\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13800\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13800\" src=\"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/kifkat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">Kit Kat ok, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Kif Kat not ok<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_13801\" style=\"width: 277px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2016\/06\/photos-showing-just-how-the-marijuana-business-in-the-usa-is-targeting-the-youth-market\/pot-tarts\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13801\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13801\" class=\" wp-image-13801\" src=\"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Pot-tarts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">Kellogs Pop Tarts ok,\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Pot tarts not ok<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_13802\" style=\"width: 269px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2016\/06\/photos-showing-just-how-the-marijuana-business-in-the-usa-is-targeting-the-youth-market\/twigz\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13802\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13802\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13802\" src=\"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/twigz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">Twix bars ok, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Twigz not ok<\/span>.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">We are amazed that Nestle, Kellogs and Mars have not sued over this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">There have already been severe problems from young people overdosing on marijuana edibles. Those parents who do not want their children using cannabis must teach their family that marijuana edibles are just as harmful as smoking joints ( \u2013 perhaps more so because of the risk of overdosing) and they are not products to use like sweets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">Learn more by logging on to: <a href=\"https:\/\/learnaboutsam.org\/sam-resources\/sam-videos\/3036-2\/\">https:\/\/learnaboutsam.org\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The photos below show just how the marijuana business in the USA is targeting the youth market. Young children who would hesitate to smoke a joint are encouraged by the packaging to believe these products are safe. All these \u2018edibles\u2019 are on sale openly. Look at the cynical way they use genuine products: We are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,90,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-use-effects-on-foetus","category-global-drug-legalisation-efforts","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}