Dumb anti-drug hysteria forced McDonalds to stop giving away decent coffee spoons

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McDonalds used to include this perfectly utilitarian spoon with coffee–perhaps the company’s only genuine claim to a design classic. Because it could be used to measure out drugs, though, it was removed from the market at the demand of lobbyists seeking a symbolic victory over drug “paraphernalia.”