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Georgia lawmakers have a problem. They saw someone enjoying themselves and decided they had to put a stop to it. For the children, of course. Think of the children™!

You see, there is a novelty candy manufacturer out there that makes pot flavored candy. It uses hemp oil, which is a perfectly legal ingredient, to give the lollipops and other candies a grassy oily taste similar to marijuana. Why someone would want candy that tasted like that is beyond me, but I don’t like the taste of cigarettes either. Hell, I don’t even like a lot of Jelly Belly flavors either. The point is that none of the ingredients in the candy are illegal. It just tastes like something that is.

But Georgia has decided that the candy promotes “a drug-induced lifestyle.” Senator Fort thinks it’s just not right to allow children to buy dope flavored candy. Apparently it will lead to some horrible downslide that ends in heroin overdoses at age 13 or something. So, they have introduced a law to ban the sale of “marijuana or hemp flavored candy”. The second offense is suggested to carry a sentence of up to 5 years in jail.

It’s simply a case where someone doesn’t get the joke. It’s something to make people smile.

Once again we have the government legislating morality where they should be worried about a number of more pressing concerns.

Sadly Georgia isn’t alone in this problem. Many local area governments have already created similar legislation. I think they all need to get whacked in the head with a reality stick. A little clue-by-four love might help them out dramatically.