Bellatrix

'Hemp,' 'Poppy' Ice Cream Banned

The Moscow Times | Monday, October 11, 2004

ROSTOV-ON-DON -- Whatever happened to chocolate, vanilla and strawberry?

A court in southern Russia has banned the sale of Ukrainian ice cream that hit the shelves under names alluding to drugs, such as Your Hemp Dose and Poppy Fun, a regional drug control official said Friday.

Bellatrix; got that everyone? Alluding to. These are just names, but that's enough to get them banned. I've been finding blurbs about the hyperactive prohibition in Russia for a while now, which is also why I wanted to post this article. Despite decrim and democracy, Russia doesn't seem to have advanced too far from the olden days.

Narcotics officers in the city of Rostov-on-Don filed suit after noticing the ice cream in kiosks. A district court ordered the product removed from all shops and other points of sale in the region, said Larisa Maslova, spokeswoman for the Rostov region drug control department.

Tests revealed no illegal substances in the ice cream, but authorities said "psycholinguistic and narco-psychological research" confirmed the ice cream's labels could "create and support an interest in narcotic drugs made from hemp and opium poppies," Itar-Tass reported.[/b]

Bellatrix; I am seeing more resemblences between the police state in Russia and the police state right here. People can whine about semantics all they want, but if something walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and has feathers like a duck, it's a duck. And this is one fascist duck.

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