Opinions - Worst anti-weed propaganda you've heard

[Stuck]

SWIM was listening to one of his preferred radio stations the other day when a commercial break occured and he heard one some of the dumbest anti-weed propaganda. It went something like this:

Teenage girl:
"Last year I was trying to be someone I was not.
I listened to music I didn't like
I laughed at jokes that weren't funny.
Now I am my own person.
I don't have to pretend to like indie rock[? lol] to be cool.
Now, I am above the influence...
...Don't smoke weed."


SWIM was confused at first but needless to say, he died laughing.

Does anyone here really use canabis on a regular basis because you're considered "cool"?

[Pinkavvy]

Swip does. That's his only motivation to do any drugs, cause of the influense. he wants to much to be like everybody else and drugs are his only outlet to do so...



NOT.

[Nature Boy]

I hate these types of ads. Luckily they're not shoved down our throats over here but I do come across them online the odd time. The worst thing about these ads is how they actually illustrate how prohibition romanticises and glamourises drug use simply because of the rebelliousness attached to their illegal consumption. As said in Trainspotting, "we'd inject vitamin C if they only made it illegal".

In essence, one has to be "above the influence" these days to make their own decisions. What a shite state of affairs.

[fnord]

Anti-Marijuana Ads Propaganda, Overstatedangers
Issue date: 1/12/04 Section: Opinion

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In 2003, the war on drugs experienced a new high when a barrage ofanti-marijuana ads, targeted at teenagers, hit TV and radio airwaves.

Itstarted during last year's Super Bowl with an ad in which a teenagerbecomes pregnant because she smoked pot. The ad begins with a motherin the bathroom holding a positive pregnancy test, while her daughtersits on the rim of the bathtub. Then her father walks in to receivethe bad news. A voice then says: "Smoking marijuana impairs yourjudgment. It's more harmful than we all thought."

Now, I've heard some lies in my life, but blaming weed for teenpregnancy is a scare tactic that is just plain wrong.Fifteen-year-old boys and girls going through puberty create teenpregnancies. Weed does not. If young girls want to make love toanybody while they're stoned, it's probably to a carton of Ben andJerry's or a box of Mike and Ike's.

This ad, along with many others like it, began airing last yearwhen Congress decided to use billions of dollars in taxpayers' moneyto launch a huge media campaign aimed at teens. The original proposalincluded anti-alcohol themes, but that quickly came to a halt afterintense lobbying from the alcohol industry. Surprised, anyone?

They decided public money was best used to try to preventteenagers from using marijuana despite the fact that, according towww.changetheclimate.org, driving studies reveal that marijuanaproduces "little or no car-handling impairment - consistently lessthan that produced by low to moderate doses of alcohol and many legalmedications."

It would be perfectly fine to provide kids with facts aboutmarijuana effects and abuse, but instead the government decided torevert back to the "reefer madness" days of the 1930s. As a result,we've been subjected to watching and listening to anti-marijuanacommercials that range from absurd to bona fide lies.

One such ad depicts a group of stoned teenagers in a car who areat a fast-food drive-through ordering some food (naturally), when allof a sudden they hit a little girl on her bike as they're leaving.OK, I guess it's possible for that to happen. But is that really thenorm?
The message is something tragic will happen if you smoke anddrive. I understand the combination can be dangerous, but it isn'tnearly as dangerous as drinking and driving - the No. 1 killer on ourhighways.

There's another ad that shows an infant girl wandering around apool, as if to assume she's about to fall in and drown. Apparentlythe baby sitter is in the house puffing the magic dragon, because avoice then says in a sarcastic manner, "Just tell her parents youwere busy getting high."

Then there are the irresponsibility ads. One commercial is aboutan older brother forgetting to pick up his younger brother frompractice because he was stoned, while the other is about a kid whoforgets to get a tuxedo and make other preparations for his prombecause being stoned all the time made him too lazy.

These are nothing more than propaganda ads that blur the linebetween typical marijuana use and its extremely rare effects.

Don't get me wrong. I don't have a problem with educating youngpeople about marijuana, but these ads are simply ridiculous. Untilthe number of teenage smokers exceeds the number of teenage drinkersand people stop getting hooked on drugs that can actually kill youfrom overdose, like cocaine and heroin, marijuana is hardly worth allthe attention it receives.

According to a 2001 survey at www.infoplease.com, 36.9 percent ofAmerican adults have used marijuana, making it the most widely usedillicit drug. In a sense, marijuana use is already a "normal" part ofAmerican culture, and the only thing making it evil is its continuedcriminalization. Marijuana may be bad for kids, but prohibition isworse for everyone.

http://media.www.thedailyaztec.com/m...69-page2.shtml

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nice

[hoodabudda]

Originally Posted by fnord

Anti-Marijuana Ads Propaganda, Overstatedangers
Issue date: 1/12/04 Section: Opinion

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In 2003, the war on drugs experienced a new high when a barrage ofanti-marijuana ads, targeted at teenagers, hit TV and radio airwaves.

Itstarted during last year's Super Bowl with an ad in which a teenagerbecomes pregnant because she smoked pot. The ad begins with a motherin the bathroom holding a positive pregnancy test, while her daughtersits on the rim of the bathtub. Then her father walks in to receivethe bad news. A voice then says: "Smoking marijuana impairs yourjudgment. It's more harmful than we all thought."

10 bucks says a bud light comercial with some hot chicks came on right after it....

[the.xif]

All of the shit they put on the radio and on TV just adds to America's cloud of fucking propaganda and lies. [Assuming poster is situated in the US - Above the Influence is an American thing]

[fnord]

Anti-Marijuana Ads Propaganda, Overstatedangers
Issue date: 1/12/04 Section: Opinion

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In 2003, the war on drugs experienced a new high when a barrage ofanti-marijuana ads, targeted at teenagers, hit TV and radio airwaves.

Itstarted during last year's Super Bowl with an ad in which a teenagerbecomes pregnant because she smoked pot. The ad begins with a motherin the bathroom holding a positive pregnancy test, while her daughtersits on the rim of the bathtub. Then her father walks in to receivethe bad news. A voice then says: "Smoking marijuana impairs yourjudgment. It's more harmful than we all thought."

Now, I've heard some lies in my life, but blaming weed for teenpregnancy is a scare tactic that is just plain wrong.Fifteen-year-old boys and girls going through puberty create teenpregnancies. Weed does not. If young girls want to make love toanybody while they're stoned, it's probably to a carton of Ben andJerry's or a box of Mike and Ike's.

This ad, along with many others like it, began airing last yearwhen Congress decided to use billions of dollars in taxpayers' moneyto launch a huge media campaign aimed at teens. The original proposalincluded anti-alcohol themes, but that quickly came to a halt afterintense lobbying from the alcohol industry. Surprised, anyone?

They decided public money was best used to try to preventteenagers from using marijuana despite the fact that, according towww.changetheclimate.org, driving studies reveal that marijuanaproduces "little or no car-handling impairment - consistently lessthan that produced by low to moderate doses of alcohol and many legalmedications."

It would be perfectly fine to provide kids with facts aboutmarijuana effects and abuse, but instead the government decided torevert back to the "reefer madness" days of the 1930s. As a result,we've been subjected to watching and listening to anti-marijuanacommercials that range from absurd to bona fide lies.

One such ad depicts a group of stoned teenagers in a car who areat a fast-food drive-through ordering some food (naturally), when allof a sudden they hit a little girl on her bike as they're leaving.OK, I guess it's possible for that to happen. But is that really thenorm?
The message is something tragic will happen if you smoke anddrive. I understand the combination can be dangerous, but it isn'tnearly as dangerous as drinking and driving - the No. 1 killer on ourhighways.

There's another ad that shows an infant girl wandering around apool, as if to assume she's about to fall in and drown. Apparentlythe baby sitter is in the house puffing the magic dragon, because avoice then says in a sarcastic manner, "Just tell her parents youwere busy getting high."

Then there are the irresponsibility ads. One commercial is aboutan older brother forgetting to pick up his younger brother frompractice because he was stoned, while the other is about a kid whoforgets to get a tuxedo and make other preparations for his prombecause being stoned all the time made him too lazy.

These are nothing more than propaganda ads that blur the linebetween typical marijuana use and its extremely rare effects.

Don't get me wrong. I don't have a problem with educating youngpeople about marijuana, but these ads are simply ridiculous. Untilthe number of teenage smokers exceeds the number of teenage drinkersand people stop getting hooked on drugs that can actually kill youfrom overdose, like cocaine and heroin, marijuana is hardly worth allthe attention it receives.

According to a 2001 survey at www.infoplease.com, 36.9 percent ofAmerican adults have used marijuana, making it the most widely usedillicit drug. In a sense, marijuana use is already a "normal" part ofAmerican culture, and the only thing making it evil is its continuedcriminalization. Marijuana may be bad for kids, but prohibition isworse for everyone.

http://media.www.thedailyaztec.com/m...69-page2.shtml

[AntiAimer]

Well refer madness is pretty damn funny. But Smurf just saw this new MTV ad online which showed 3 guys in a car getting stoned. Then suddenly the 2 infront become gay and start to kiss...that was pretty sad.

So now since nothing else works, there trying to make kids think they'll turn gay......LOL. Sad...

[svenghali]

Older Kid: Hey, kid, you want some smoke?
Little Kid: I don't smoke weed... I smoke fools like you on the B-Ball court.

[Swimster]

wow, in the u.s, no one wants to be gay. No effence to anyone though.

On the commercials, ie: people in cars hitting kids while high.
Here's swims Propaganda, against Prpaganda, Alcohol impares one, ALOT more so than marijuana, so what the hell? I mean, how many people get pulled over by a cop while high on marijuana, very few!, simply because it is alot less imparing than alcohol, while driving(although not condoned), so in the case of some one in a car hitting a kid on a bike, this is a shitty peice of propaganda!

[svenghali]

SWIM goes to a boarding/prep school institution. Last year, as a celebrity's relative went there, rampant drug use struck the little campus. Lots of cocaine, joints smoked, etc. As a result of that and many expulsions, the school has been cracking down this year.

Upon suspicion, the school confronts the suspected student and tells him/her that unless they admit and are entered into a regular urine test program, they will be hair tested, and if they prove positive, expulsion is a result. Soo... Lots of SWIM's friends are being drug tested this year. It's not too much fun.

However, coincidentally, SWIM and his roommate, both being tested, are president and vice president of the school's anti-drug/drinking club (hehe irony). The two decided that they would have an anti drug propaganda campaign that would fringe on irrationality (like they already don't).

SWIM's friend, a remarkable artist and also being drug-tested, drew images of pot leaves with red eyes, holding machine guns killing families, driving steamrollers over puppies, throwing bombs at nuns, etc. It was one of the more hilarious things that has occurred at the school, as they were proudly posted up for a while.

[purplehaze]

Swim saw one that said, Yesterday my friend's talked me into smoking pot, today i put my fist in my mouth...

And another one, I smoked pot, nobody died, there were no tragedies that happened i just sit on dave's couch for 12 hour's...

12 hour's? I'm sure that was his choice, i mean cmon...

What's next? Yesterday i smoked pot, today im a gay serial killer who slings crack to little kid's waiting after school?

This is stupid.

There should be real commerical's about acohol since there doing this stupid shit, and half of them could be true, Last night i got drunk, wrecked my car, slept with a whore now i have aid's, i forgot the whores name, and were i left my car after i recked it. Or were i even recked it at, hell it might have not even been my car. Above the influece...

[Orchid_Suspiria]

Swim really hates those "Buy weed support terrorism"commercials.The fact that they would try to make harmless cannabis smokers appear to be in league with terrorism just disgusts me.That idiot in the white house and his stupid cabinet just go lower and lower every minute it seems.

[The Doors]

I wonder if it'd be possible to post anti-alcohol adds on tv... Imagine the possibilities

[Swimster]

Originally Posted by The Doors

I wonder if it'd be possible to post anti-alcohol adds on tv... Imagine the possibilities

Hell, that probably what we need more than anything!

[Orchid_Suspiria]

Actually swim has seen some anti alcohol ads at one time.They were more so just against teenagers drinking from what I remember but it actually made me happy that for once it wasn't just cannabis being made into the worst thing on earth.As I said in another post alot of kids around here are going around huffing computer duster so why are these idiots so worried about kids smoking weed?Swim would gladly allow his kid to smoke weed when they were of proper age but swim would be a wee bit upset if he ever caught his kid fucking with any inhalants other than nitrous oxide perhaps.Its because of these stupid anti marijauna commercials that some kids of abit lesser intelligence might figure things like huffing are okay as long as they aren't smoking weed.

[tayo]

Yeah they just have COPS ARE CRACKING DOWN ON DRINKING AND DRIVING. DONT DRINK AND DRIVE.... what about... don't drink to numb the pain, don't drink because everyone else has a glass in their hand, dont drink because its a poison and that tingling sensation in your throat after a shot of hard liquor, is the cells in your throat dying. but that would hurt a major part of america's cash flow if the anti-alcohol ads worked.

[Swimster]

indeed.

swim has NEVER seen it against alcohol, buy rather against teens, and drinking and driving.

[Orchid_Suspiria]

If swim can't stand anything it is hypocricy and Americas tolerance of people destroying their livers,beating their wives and kids in a drunken rage,going out and pushing and bullying people around because they are drunken morons makes swim so very angry.Especially because America doesn't tolerate someone doing something as safe as cannabis,it doesn't tolerate someone expanding their mind and wanting to create love and happiness with lsd,it doesn't tolerate anyone using anything that might make them think or question.

And it goes on to so many different levels.So many ignorant parents that telling their children these lies.This is bad parenting really but you can't blame the parents they are just victims of years of brainwashing.Swim is thankful that atleast some parents out there saw through it and were truthful to their children.Not swims parents swims dad sat finishing of his oh tenth beer of the night telling swim that "Acid was physically addictive."and that "Marijuana users cause nothing but trouble and should be locked away for life."So the propaganda on the television is not where it starts.If anyone on this forum is a parent swim is very happy that those kids will be some of the lucky few that get taught the truth and get taught to think for themselves.

[The Doors]

"I was drunk"

How many times have so many of us heard or perhaps even used that excuse?

A few months ago, SWIM had the idea of a pro-marijuana ad that would have a split screen, and one side having teenagers/young adults smoke dope; On the other side would be teenagers/young adults sniffing gas and what not and then at the end having the following quote or something amongst those lines "Which one do you prefer?"

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very cool idea

[Orchid_Suspiria]

Originally Posted by The Doors

"I was drunk"

How many times have so many of us heard or perhaps even used that excuse?

A few months ago, SWIM had the idea of a pro-marijuana ad that would have a split screen, and one side having teenagers/young adults smoke dope; On the other side would be teenagers/young adults sniffing gas and what not and then at the end having the following quote or something amongst those lines "Which one do you prefer?"

Now thats a wonderful idea for a commercial!It certainly wouldn't ever be on television but perhaps with a digital camcorder and a creative minded member of this forum or two it could be on youtube atleast.

[tayo]

yeah just like swim hitting hir gun pipe, barrel of gun is sucked to draw smoke through a permanently cocked *broken hand gun, and the bowl is where the chamber is. someone told swim to sell the idea to the government. "smoking is like putting a gun to your head" but if there's weed in the gun people might get ideas and start using guns that work, or have bullets in them... that could get nasty, putting a lighter up to a bullet while sucking through a barrel of a gun.

[KeGbErT]

I hate those add that show the kids looking like an uninflated baloon after they smoke pot. It incinuates that pot smokers are just a bunch of good for nothing losers that just sit on there couches all day. Alot of the pot smokers Swim knows have to be some of the smartest and most motivatesd people I know. Lazzyness makes a person lazy, not marijuana.

[AntiAimer]

Has to be the two brother homosexual incest that was showed on MTV.

http://adage.com/video/Player.php?s=OjEwNDc6N2VmZjNmMmQ6MQ

Just saw this one with a girl and a dog. The dog says some mumbo jumbo about her never playing with him because she keeps going out to get high...?

Last time Smurf checked, animals get more attention when someones not sober, then when there sober.

Also I thought the message was, just stay at home to do your drugs. Not the opposite...commercials are so confuseing.

[Orchid_Suspiria]

Not only are they confusing they are stupid,plain and simple.