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(Chuck Muth) – Halloween 2022 has now come and gone with a twist this year: Few scary, holiday-themed op-eds and press releases from Big Candy railing against the U.S. sugar program. Halloween is usually a “don’t miss” opportunity for candy lobbyists in DC to push Congress for an end to targeted quotas and limited tariffs […]
Candymakers want weed companies to stop mimicking them Candymakers (Mars, Hershey, Mondelez) are filing complaints and lawsuits against cannabis makers. Why? Branding edibles as “candy” is a public hazard for children. By: Juliet Bennett Rylah May 26, 2021 Candy companies don’t want you to confuse cannabis edibles with their products. And, tbh, you probably don’t want that for you either. Now Big Candy is going after the weed biz. Wrigley Jr. Company — owned by Mars Inc. (the private candymaker with $40B a year in sales) — has filed a complaint against several cannabis compani...
Big Candy, vilified in the wellness era as a primary source of refined sugar, has become an unlikely sheriff in the Wild West of recreational marijuana as candy-makers face products like Stoney Patch Kids, Buttafingazzz and Caribo Happy Cola.
Big Candy Is Angry As more states legalize recreational cannabis, Wrigley and others are suing over look-alike THC treats. They’re protecting their brands — and also, they argue, your kids. Credit...Phil Marden May 22, 2021Updated 6:24 a.m. ET At first glance, the Skittles package appears to be just like the one sold in the candy aisle of a supermarket: It has block letters filled in with white, a flowing rainbow and a red candy that replaces the dot above the letter “i.” A closer look reveals some small differences: a background pattern of small, stylized marijuana leaves; a warning ...
By Chuck Muth, President, Citizen Outreach Well, another Valentine’s Day has come and gone, but not without the usual attack by Big Candy’s sweet-talkers on America’s sugar farmers. Ross Marchand of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance weighed in with a weekend column calling to “end the not-so-sweet sugar program” and urging President Biden to “cut out this confectionary con job.” Mr. Marchand’s column is filled with de rigueur misinformation about the U.S. sugar program, including the false claim that sugar farmers in America receive government subsidies and that targeted restr...