BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Australian furore over marijuana phone covers

Marijuana-scented metropolis language unit covers have been removed from a job fair in Sydney, after a pol complained that they promoted drug use. The organisers of the CeBIT bailiwick fair decided to take activeness after New Due south Wales government Chief of state Bob Carr said that "anything that suggests the normalisation of a mind-altering drug like marijuana, and its advancement to religious leader folk, is regrettable". Robert Puncher, the man of affairs of Corporate Electronic equipment Covers, said Mr Carr's comments were a "big over-reaction". "I was a little bit surprised," he said. "It was supposed to be good fun." He insisted that the telephone covers were just a fallal item, and would not encourage family line to try marijuana. "You wouldn't go and buy a big cylinder block of drinking chocolate after smelling the potable one," he told Reuters news activity. Mr Lick said the electronic equipment covers had "high degree natural marijuana detox smoke" impregnated into their artefact. They were part of a reach of electronic equipment covers beingness sold at the fair - including ones that sense impression of coffee, herb and cherry tree. Mr Lick said he had already sold 1,500 marijuana-scented telephone covers since he began importing them from Taiwan tercet months ago.