Has any one noticed the number of candy ads on Nick TV

[BurtWorm]

that look like ads for psychotropic subtances? I'm thinking of ones in which a kid pops a piece of candy and goes into some kind of altered state--frequently the head turns into a piece of fruit or some other thing. One is for something called Airheads, I think. The kid in question turns blue and flops around an auditorium like a balloon with its air let out, then sinks back into his seat like a junkie coming off a high. There's another ad for fruit rollups in which two slacker jrs. whip their heads around until they're too dizzy to stand. The ad ends with a POV shot of kids who don't get it looking down, with the playground spinning dizzily behind them.

This candy is clearly being sold as a kind of drug. Isn't it?

[frank frankly]

1. there is LSD in most of those confections

for real

[BurtWorm]

3. I'd be more inclined to believe that there's nicotine

or heroin or something highly addictive in them.

[BrotherBuzz]

4. Is that because LSD is cheaper then sugar?

or is it just that the republican sugar producers and the drug companies are in collusion? Mind control...Hmmm, makes a dictatorship easier to run. So easy to run that an idiot could run this country.

[david_vincent]

2. Now that you mention it,

I think I remember a Skittles ad that was distinctly psychedelic.
This is one of my pet peeves. If I were king of the forest, ALL
advertising directed at children would be banned, period. That
goes for fast food, toys, everything.

[BurtWorm]

5. I think it is evil to sell shit to kids on TV

And I really don't get what they're selling, besides a product that bears no relation to the image created for it. Why do they think candy is more appealing when it's sold as a drug? The obvious answer is that self-medication is primally appealing--but no kid is really going to think that fruit roll ups are going to give him a high, is he?