The entire story, since it's very brief:
Marijuana cell phone cover causes buzz. 7/5/2003. ABC (Australia) News Online: Marijuana-scented cell phone covers caused such a buzz that the company selling them had to pull them out of an technology fair in Sydney. Local authorities and New South Wales State Premier, Bob Carr, slammed the green, marijuana-motif covers as promoting drug use to young people.
"A big over-reaction," said Robert Punch, owner, chief executive and founder of Corporate Phone Covers. "It's a novelty ... you wouldn't go and buy a big block of chocolate after smelling the chocolate one," he told Reuters. Made in China and arrayed next to chocolate, strawberry, blueberry, cherry and rose-scented snap-on covers, the marijuana version sold well, though only to the over 18s, Punch said. "It sells better than the strawberry, much better," he said.
... Well, yes, I suppose it would.
One wonders just how much they were planning on this hubbub to draw attention to the phone line as a whole.
(Wouldn't smelling chocolate or fruit every single time you answered the phone become a bit much, almost immediately?)
Posted by iain at May 08, 2003 06:36 PMComments
