# Stupidest anti-drug commercial yet. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 18, 2003, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-anti-drug-commercial-yet/149475 "2003-01-18T15:34:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-anti-drug-commercial-yet/149475/41 "2003-01-19T22:42:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BrandonR \* > \*\*[http://www.mediacampaign.org/multimedia/rabbi\_rev.mov](http://www.mediacampaign.org/multimedia/rabbi_rev.mov) > > Oh. My. God. That commercial makes me want to take drugs just to forget it. \*\* The funny thing is, I used to go to something similar. It was a club run by Christian’s for teens (13-19) that played pretty much the latest music along with the latest in Christian music (DC Talk, Newboys, Creed etc) And though it was drug free, I am pretty darn sure that people went out back to smoke up and wandered back in. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-anti-drug-commercial-yet/149475/42 "2003-01-19T23:51:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sailor \* > **The idea of linking something you want to discourage (drugs) to something people already hate (terrorism) is not new. Around 1965 they were producing short movies explaing how pornography supported communism.** And that was even _more_ idiotic, if that’s possible, because the Communists were just as anti-porn as Richard Nixon ever was, if not more so. They claimed such things were a symptom of the capitalistic West’s decadence that would ultimately lead to capitalism’s collapse and overthrow. Besides, everyone knows [marijuana leads to Communism](http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.cfm?uc_full_date=19710923&uc_daction=X), not porn. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-anti-drug-commercial-yet/149475/43 "2003-01-20T00:37:26Z")
See the problem with these anti-drug commercials is that they load them up with lies. Anybody who has any experience at all with smoking pot knows that once you’re baked, all you wanna do is sit on the couch, order in pizza, wings and chinese food, and try to figure out whether or not you could make a bong out of that Chia Pet. The last thing on your mind is exerting the amount of effort necessary to take sexual advantage of someone, because if you’re even aware you have a penis/vagina at that point, you’re too baked to use it, and you’re definitely too paranoid about getting in trouble to pick up a gun. So pretty much you just sit there, amazed as hell at this neat-o invention you just discovered called a ‘hand’ and you marvel at how fascinating the TV Guide channel is. You apply your powers of reasoning to commercials, anime, and bad 80s movies on the Sci-Fi channel after figuring out that the ‘hand’ thing is connected to you and will operate the TV remote. And then when the THC wears off, you pretty much just want a gallon of water and a nap. By this point, you’ve seen 15 or 20 anti-drug commercials, you’ve realized they’re totally full of shit, and they have thus lost their effectiveness at ever convincing you to not put a chemical in your body. And thanks to that very same war on drugs, it’s easier for a 14 year old to get weed than it is for me, because it’s apparent to the dealer that a 14 year old isn’t a cop. So they learn young to not trust authority, because authority lies. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-anti-drug-commercial-yet/149475/44 "2003-01-20T00:53:58Z")
Hey **catsix** , that’s some evil skunk you been puffing. ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-anti-drug-commercial-yet/149475/45 "2003-01-20T01:15:10Z")
No dude, the evil stuff was the time I ended up watching the entire _Halloween_ movie marathon on TV, followed by _Children of the Corn_ and four hours of anime. And all I wanted was some damn Doritos. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-anti-drug-commercial-yet/149475/46 "2003-01-20T02:57:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by neutron star \* > What’s the guy who just hid his bong behind the TV when he heard the interviewer knock on his door going to say? “Uhmmmm, are you, like, the pizza guy…?” ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-anti-drug-commercial-yet/149475/47 "2003-01-20T03:37:27Z")
Am I the only one in this thread who has had sex while stoned? I _highly_ recommend it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-anti-drug-commercial-yet/149475/48 "2003-01-20T03:50:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fish42 \* > \*\*What I find even stranger is that on each of the 3 or 4 occasions that the stoners in the car get the munchies, the kid just happens to be riding her bike in the exact same spot. Talk aobut your coincidences! \*\* I think one of the times they road through, they ordered 17 cheeseburgers. Great idea, make these people look like a complete exaggeration of people who smoke pot, to get your “serious” message across. ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-anti-drug-commercial-yet/149475/49 "2003-01-20T13:45:41Z")
**Hastur:** I have, and depending on who it’s with, it’s pretty damn good. The thing that I was trying to get across is that while baked out of one’s mind is not the time they rape somebody. They’re either too baked to put forth the effort or too paranoid of the guys in blue. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-anti-drug-commercial-yet/149475/50 "2003-01-20T23:52:43Z")
May I say the “Nick and Norm” ads are beneath insulting? This whole campaign is a splendid example of the intellectual fatal flaw behind the quagmire that’s the “war on drugs”. “It’s Bad because We Said So; and here are some horror stories to convince you of it” didn’t wash when Norm and Nick were teenagers, it won’t wash now. And besides, I blame it directly for inspiring the creation of the “Drivers of SUVs ride with Bin Laden” ad. Heck, I’d rather have the guys from “The Truth” talking about how marijuana smoke has carbon monoxide and pesticide traces, it would probably be more dissuasive. ---
**Author:** ![headchecked](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/258eb7/32.png) [@headchecked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/headchecked)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-anti-drug-commercial-yet/149475/51 "2003-01-21T05:19:04Z")
I think Catsix was the closest when he said, “See the problem with these anti-drug commercials is that they load them up with lies.” From what I see (I’m still in high school) is when people talk about pot they may talk about something stupid they did when they were high, but when the commercials show people getting killed and people are looking around and seeing that their peers haven’t been killed and have tried it, it destroys the credibility/scarenes ability of the commercial, high school, if that’s the intended audience of the ads, is way too late to try to prevent kids from trying drugs, by that point with most kids its already certain whether they will try them or not, its only a matter of when. Of course this is sticky 'cause how the hell are you going to be able to, intelligently, teach an elementary school kid about the pros and cons of pot? ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-anti-drug-commercial-yet/149475/52 "2003-01-21T06:30:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JRDelirious \* > **And besides, I blame it directly for inspiring the creation of the “Drivers of SUVs ride with Bin Laden” ad.** There was a WW2 propaganda/rationing poster that read “When you ride alone, you ride with Hitler”, and was captioned “Carpool for victory!” or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Deadmime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@Deadmime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deadmime)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-anti-drug-commercial-yet/149475/53 "2003-01-21T09:00:08Z")
I think the point of them reshowing the same thing over and over again (Like the kids with the gun, and the guys in the drive through) Is to show that you can get away with it most of the time and it can be harmless, but one time…There is a chance of harming someone else. Like a “Sure it might not hurt you 99% of the time, but theres still that 1% chance you might kill someone type thing” ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-anti-drug-commercial-yet/149475/54 "2003-01-26T00:16:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ulterior \* > \*\*I think the most inane one is the one with the two guys smoking fat blunts in a car, go through a drive-thru a bunch of times, and then run over a kid. That one strikes me as more about DUI than anything… Gordon Campbell should watch it… > > -Ulterior \*\* The MOST likely scenario from this one would be that the three dudes would be so taken by the munchies that they’d put the car in park and go through the car like a white tornado to find enough change to fund their nosh. Hence, the kid would be LONG gone. Not to mention “dudes on dope” wouldn’t be SCREAMING out of the drive in, they’d be moseying. ---
**Author:** ![Bongmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Bongmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bongmaster)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-anti-drug-commercial-yet/149475/55 "2003-01-30T21:57:59Z")
And everyone that wears diamonds supports terrorism as well because they sometimes use slave labor in Africa to get money for financing. Those commercials literally make me sick…I want to scream at them that if they were to simply legalize pot the problem would disappear. (Thats over-simplifying things I know) ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-anti-drug-commercial-yet/149475/56 "2003-01-31T01:50:47Z")
Ok, I especially like the one with the teen-age girl finding out she’s pregnant. Girl, your man ain’t smokin’ ENOUGH if he ain’t shootin’ blanks. He’s got to lower his squiggler-count more! ---
**Author:** ![Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fred)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-anti-drug-commercial-yet/149475/57 "2003-01-31T02:26:58Z")
I love the Nick and Norm ads. It’s just so “Goofus and Gallant”. I like how, as the series goes on, the camera gets closer and closer to the faces of our subjects. I like how Norm (or Nick) admits defeat at the end of every commercial, yet always returns in the next segment with another straw man. I love them. ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-anti-drug-commercial-yet/149475/58 "2003-01-31T02:34:01Z")
I can’t remember where I read this, but I read about a program that was trying to get kids to stop huffing things like paint markers and aerosols and doing whippets (Nitrous Oxide), and they found that telling the kids that it would kill them wasn’t effective. What did work was telling them ‘Hey, if you do this stuff, your hair will fall out, you will have bad skin, your teeth will fall out and you’ll look ugly’. My personal feelings are that there’s really nothing wrong with recreational use of pot, but if you want people to believe the effects, at least be honest about them. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-anti-drug-commercial-yet/149475/59 "2003-01-31T05:03:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Ok, I especially like the one with the teen-age girl finding out she’s pregnant. Girl, your man ain’t smokin’ ENOUGH if he ain’t shootin’ blanks. He’s got to lower his squiggler-count more! I actually threw something at the television when I saw that one. The other folks at the Super Bowl party were a bit frightened by the tirade I embarked on. I mean, hey, teenagers aren’t confused enough about sex and pregnancy and exactly how and in what circumstances one leads to another–let’s make a commercial saying that ganja has something to do with it! That way, we can misinform them on two subjects _at the same time!_ > [@](#): > > What did work was telling them ‘Hey, if you do this stuff, your hair will fall out, you will have bad skin, your teeth will fall out and you’ll look ugly’. The pediatricians I’ve worked with have said exactly the same thing–teenagers are fundamentally unable to grasp the future in a very tangible way, so the best way to reach them is to appeal to the here and now. Dr. J ---
**Author:** ![Kaje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f04885/32.png) [@Kaje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaje)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-anti-drug-commercial-yet/149475/60 "2003-01-31T07:52:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kru-baby \* > **Usually if you are driving while under the influence of marijuana, you arent usually going fast enough to run over anyone!** You can easily kill somebody with your car at 10mph… A friend of my dad’s (i think that’s who it was… i hope i’m not repeating an urban legend) killed his kid backing up out of the driveway when he tried to hide behind the car… anyway that’s the not the point… the point is your reflexes and awareness are significantly impaired when you’re stoned… otherwise i wouldn’t smoke… you are a much worse driver stoned than sober, are much more a danger/menace on the roads, and if marijuana was ever legalized you better believe they’ll pass strict laws forbidding driving while stoned. TeleTronOne: Yeah requiem is an awesome movie but uh… if I may make a suggestion to everybody out there, don’t watch the movie right before going to sleep the night before you eat your first mushrooms. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-anti-drug-commercial-yet/149475.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-anti-drug-commercial-yet/149475.md?page=4)