Opinions - Worst anti-weed propaganda you've heard

[oldfart]

Abovetheinfluence.com has a propoganda movie stoners in the Mist. worst piece of propoganda crap I have seen to date.

[Stuck]

Originally Posted by oldfart

Abovetheinfluence.com has a propoganda movie stoners in the Mist. worst piece of propoganda crap I have seen to date.

wow...
that takes the cake.

swim has never seen cannabis users more dehumanized.

[Orchid_Suspiria]

Everytime swim sees a commercial advertising alcohol and how wonderful it is this makes him even more pissed about all the anti marijuana/anti drug propaganda.Yes a poison that causes acute liver failure is sooo wonderful and makes you popular with the ladies but a herb that makes you learn to think and learn to be an individual makes you stupid and lazy according to the idiots in charge.Ever since that moronic,alcoholic,cocksucking excuse for a president Nixon said those words"A war on drugs"the stupidity has just grown by leaps and bounds.

[BackToBasics]

We don't really get it that bad in this country, Budgie thinks the newspapers are the worst...like a certain tabloid that always calls weed 'Super Deadly Skunk Weed', and always says that people that smoke generally have to steal to support their 'habits'. Budgie's also seen quite a few times, weed being implicated in things like murders..
'Woman dies after Axe murderer gets high on deadly skunk weed!!'

England doesn't really have tv commercials like that (not ones that budgie can remember anyway), but we have a hell of a lot of anti-alcohol ones showing people dead in crushed up cars and the like.

[Orchid_Suspiria]

Swim isn't sure if he should be disgusted with the UK or congratulate them,actually it's a little of both.On the positive he is glad the UK shows that alcohol is just as dangerous if not more than most illegal drugs.On the negative side even most the ridiculous drug propaganda in the US doesn't say things about "People having to steal to support their weed habit."On that hand swim is pretty disgusted,swim always thought the UK was more sensible and tolerant when it came to things like that but lately he has been finding out he is very wrong.

[BackToBasics]

The British Government don't know whether they're coming or going, imho..on one hand, they downgrade weed to class c instead of b. A couple of months later, they're saying that they may of made a mistake and shall try to upgrade it again. Morons. One step forward, two steps back. Talk about sending out the wrong message...

The 'stealing' comments only come from a few well known newspapers, not the actual government.

[tayo]

pretty much everyone has seen the one where two kids hit the bong and one of them finds a gun and is like "duuuude, pull the trigger! [something like that] yeahhh aim it in your throat!" then the screen goes black and you hear a BANG.... that one is ridiculous..

[hoodabudda]

^^^^like on harold and kumar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7Zo5vLDC88

[Coconut]

Originally Posted by hoodabudda

^^^^like on harold and kumar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7Zo5vLDC88

Oh God, I LOVE that ad! It's hilarious. Great film also.

[tayo]

yeah that's the one, there's a spin-off too

[AThousandYoung]

I remember when that song by Afroman came out I thought it was anti-marijuana propaganda at first.

I was gonna clean my room
but then I got high
oooo aaaaaahhh...

[svenghali]

Holy god, that stoners in the mist thing makes me embarassed to be in a country that produces such crap. Why not treat alcohol, which has more serious long-term ramafications the same way?

I'm grabbing my EU passport.

[Metalcore322]

Abovetheinfluence.com

"Smoking marijuana also causes some changes in the brain similar to those caused by long-term use of cocaine and heroin."

"Health problems associated with using marijuana can keep students from attending school due to illness."

"THC is the chemical that causes some smokers to develop tolerence to it's effects and crave more of the drugs, leading to addiction."

LMAO!! Is this what America will be lowered to forever, making clearly irrational and false statements of something that in fact IS completely harmless?!

[Metalcore322]

How can they, in all consciousness, call these statements "drug facts"?

[UndeadPaperclip]

Originally Posted by Metalcore322

Abovetheinfluence.com

"Smoking marijuana also causes some changes in the brain similar to those caused by long-term use of cocaine and heroin."

"Health problems associated with using marijuana can keep students from attending school due to illness."

"THC is the chemical that causes some smokers to develop tolerence to it's effects and crave more of the drugs, leading to addiction."

LMAO!! Is this what America will be lowered to forever, making clearly irrational and false statements of something that in fact IS completely harmless?!

I don't know about those statements being complete lies, while some of them are, a lot of what those propagandists like to do is completely twist the truth. That way, if they're ever confronted with lying or misleading the public, they can say they never outright lied. And they would be correct. Just look at the wording of those three examples you posted.

"Smoking marijuana also causes some changes in the brain similar to those caused by long-term use of cocaine and heroin."

They used 'scarier' drugs as a deterrent by saying causes SOME changes SIMILAR to those caused by LONG-TERM use, but of course those small little literary fallbacks go completely ignored by COCAINE, BRAIN, HEROIN! They have similar effects because they're all used to alter brain chemistry in some way or another, yes, but what it fails to mention (Completely innocently I'm sure) is what the changes are, the extent of the changes, the reason for the changes, and that the same thing happens with Caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, OTC medicines, doctor prescribed medicines...etc etc etc.


"Health problems associated with using marijuana can keep students from attending school due to illness."

There's a big one, "Can" and "Associated with"... so basically, there is a remote possibility you could get sick as well as smoke pot, and you might miss school because of it. While it's true smoking anything can accent illnesses, this little blurt is trying to make "Associated" synonymic to "Caused by," and it works, cause the average person who even listens to this stuff at all is a moron.


"THC is the chemical that causes some smokers to develop tolerence to it's effects and crave more of the drugs, leading to addiction."

I gotta admit, that one made me laugh. Not only did it add in "Some smokers" to give them some deniability, but they used 'addiction' as a scare tactic. But what made me laugh was the overall message of it. Use builds up tolerance, nevermind the fact that that is the case with everything from drinking water to bodybuilding, they used the word Addiction! And THC! Oh no! Tolerance! AAHHHHHH!!

Those people make me laugh, and the fact that some people actually swallow that stuff whole makes me sick.

[SurferRosa]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6734289.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5230006.stm

Both from the same site. Like BackToBasics said, the government don't know if they're coming or going.

[jcdjinn]

The SLOMing ad was the stupidest I've seen so far. Those crappy animation ones with the goofy music and the stick figure who blazes are pretty dumb as well. But Reefer Madness is definately number one in terms of false information and absurdity.

[tayo]

Originally Posted by jcdjinn

The SLOMing ad was the stupidest I've seen so far. Those crappy animation ones with the goofy music and the stick figure who blazes are pretty dumb as well. But Reefer Madness is definately number one in terms of false information and absurdity.

I thought the SLOMing was stupid too... at fiiirst... then I did some research..
http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=33131

[Stuck]

Originally Posted by tayo

I thought the SLOMing was stupid too... at fiiirst... then I did some research..
http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=33131

ROFL

[Sarge]

Man some of the propaganda movies really suck

Some anti-drugs propaganda can be really fun though, take this on for example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc

[Salvinorin A]

Originally Posted by 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"?

As ridiculous as this sounds (and it is...i was laughin pretty hard too), but swim also knows too many people that actually do fit that description....most were middle school kids (7th-8th graders) and the majority were freshman in high school. Quite a shame really.

Sal-A

[Sarge]

Originally Posted by Stuck

Teenage girl:
Now I am my own person.
I don't have to pretend to like indie rock[? lol] to be cool.

Yes offcourse! Now you can finally go back to listening to mainstream pop and give money to the major record labels! If it weren't for the very few people like you that can still think for themselves and listen to the quality music they play on MTV, those respectable corporate labels would undoutably go bankrupt!
Now don't forget: find a nice productrive job that contributes to our soiciety, don't ask too many questions, just do what we tell you and buy, buy, buy! Because only if you're a nice conforming member of our wonderful flawless society you can be free to be your own person!


Allright maybe that was a bit exaggerated...

[FuBai]

Hey, I loved that stoners in the mist thing. I havn't laughed like that for a while. It was the combination of the ridiculously over the top british accent, sported by a man who, of course, looked like the hunter out of Jumanji with his massive mustache and Indiana Jones counterpart who supposedly sought out the prey. The fact that the information was misleading and inaccurate should be expected from what is basicaly superficial propagander; it's only idiotic parents that beleive this stuff...of course lots of stoners are stupid, that's because lots of people are stupid. You take a stupid person and give him a joint, he's not going to become magicaly intellegent, he's going to stay stupid. You give an intellegent person a joint and...they stay intellegent! Lets work this out - two of my friends smoked weed scince the were 16. One failed all his GCSEs and ended up working in Tescos, the other got a BBB offer to do History from St Hughes, Oxford (a BBB offer means that he was so intellegent that oxford would take him even if he failed to get As at A level). Well I don't need to explain the stupidity of the message, but you have to laugh. If I didn't I'd probably over flow with anger and start bottling strangers.