The whole Harmless? thing seems to have missed a point somewhere. Those who want pot legalized are (to my knowledge) willing to accept some control and consequences for its use combined with things like driving. That is, it’s harmless as long as you don’t do something stupid while high. I’ve never done pot myself, but my understanding is that when you’re high driving is usually not on your mind unless you’re out of munchies…
TICONDEROGA, N.Y. (AP) – A company is trying to erase an embarrassing mistake it made on pencils bearing an anti-drug message.
The pencils carry the slogan: “Too Cool to Do Drugs.”
But a sharp-eyed fourth-grader in northern New York noticed when the pencils are sharpened, the message turns into “Cool to Do Drugs” then simply “Do Drugs.”
I have smoked pot in my day, would do it again too… but I don’t think it should be legalized.
I don’t have a problem getting it, and I’m careful while smoking it. The people that aren’t careful are the ones that often get caught. IMHO, that’s FOR THE MOST PART a good thing. Sure alcohol is legal, and yes, most of the same arguments apply to alcohol as it would weed, but just because we have one thing legalized that could potentially cause problems, doesn’t mean we should have another legalized. At least that’s what I think. In fact, we should be happy we have the right to drink alcohol freely. If you substitute the world “alcohol” with “pot” in those anti-drug ads, you AREN’T helping weeds case, you’re HURTING alcohol’s.
I’m open to suggestions why I might be wrong. Don’t ignore this half of the post either:
But come ON guys… their are tons of TV shows and movies out their with lame messages! let’s tap into those! This thread was inspired by watching an anti-weed episode (or part of it) of Freaks and Geeks… and I KNOW a lot of dopers liked that show! What did you think of that episode!? Discuss, Discuss!!
BTW, I NEVER drink… so it sucks for me the drinking is legal and smoking weed isn’t, but I STILL think it should stay that way.
Miller, I would hazard to say that I think listening to Vanilla Ice will kill you. That has to be some type of sadistic torture if I have ever heard it.
Doesn’t Vanilla Ice music induce suicide?
To which episode are you referring (note my deft handling of the English language to avoid that hanging preposition)? The one I remember is where the main female character (I forget her name - black hair and army jacket) smokes a joint, listens to music, forgets that she has to babysit, and becomes paranoid. If this is the episode? I actually thought that it was really well done as she didn’t acidentally shoot anyone, didn’t get raped by one of her stoner friends, didn’t burn down the tool shed, etc. That episode could have had a very strong anti-drug message, as most shows that deal with drug use and teenagers do. She got high, became paranoid, and went home. What was so preachy about that?
Those spots about marijuana traffic financing terrorists is so dishonest insulting to the intelligence, it makes me angry (even though I don’t do drugs). Hey, idiots, if it were legalized none of that bad stuff would be happening. But do we ever get to hear the entirely legitimate arguments for legalization? Nooooooo. Can’t allow rational debate to spoil the demagoguery. Better to keep it illegal, the better to finance the terrorists and gangsters, you God-damned hypocrites.
That being said, you know the one spot, that had the doe-eyed and braless young lady who went berserk with a frying pan and smashed everything in the kitchen? She’s really hot. I downloaded the .avi of it just because I liked her.
Does anyone remember the scandal a few years ago when it was revealed the government had been illicitly paying big Tv-shows to insert anti-drug storylines? It was shady precisely because such are supposed to be listed in the credits, and they weren’t. Some big shows too…
http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/13/drugs/index.html
Government payola…
Apos, I remember that. There was an episode of “Sports Night” where one of the CSN people’s (I think it was Dana) brothers came back and apologized for being an athlete steroid freak for all those years. The episode seemed completely out of joint with the rest of the show and didn’t make much sense until I read about that.
Oh, and those assholes smoking pot in the bathroom stall deserved to get caught–dumbasses, just go pass the doobie around on the floor of the show! You don’t linger in the men’s room for 15 minutes puffing up a storm!
That wasn’t it…
I guess I’m not sure if it was Freaks and Geeks, but I’m almost positive it was.
It was one where some kid got absolutely HOOKED on weed, and was itching for another fix SO bad that he blew up at his friends for holding out on them. His friend said that he HAD no pot to give him.
He did, in fact have pot, but gave it to his friend because he didn’t want to turn out like the kid who needed a fix SO bad, that he looked worse than anyone I’ve ever seen trying to kick the habit of smoking. As the kid was handing the weed to his friend (so as not to waist it by just throwing it out), a teacher caught them.
I didn’t know weed was SO addictive that you go around angered and twitchy, looking for your next hit by asking your friends if they could just help you out this one time.
I turned the channel because it just seemed pretty lame.
The one with the doe-eyed berserk girl was on a few years ago. Maybe you missed it.
When I was in college getting stoned, we thought it was a hoot to get high and go to a showing of the 1930s marijuana-hysteria film Reefer Madness — because it was so poorly made, so stupid, so laughable, how anyone could have ever taken it seriously. It made the anti-marijuana propagandists look so ridiculous.
Now, what you are describing about the modern anti-marijuana spots, they look just like Reefer Madness remade. Only they’re supposed to be taken seriously this time. 
Reality is starting to become like Alice through the Looking-Glass. :rolleyes:
As of this month, pot is effectively legal in Canada - according to the courts.
Ahhh - sanity.
—Actually I’m fairly sure that commercial is over the course of the evening.—
I don’t get WHY it would be the same scene three times (what does THAT show?) but it sort of seems that way what with the same doorbell ringing at the start of each “scene.”
It’s simple…
No tax money, no CIA freedom fighter training money. No freedom fighter training money, no freedom fighter training camps. No freedom fighter training camps, no terror training camps. No terror training camps, no terrorists…
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2001/465/465p15.htm
Not sure if this is the most accurate cite, but it is a darn simple read and seems to match the info as I understand it. I just haven’t taken the time to 100% check the dates and stuff.
So don’t pay taxes or your supporting terrorism.
By the way, didn’t the 9/11 terrorists use stolen credit cards or some such scam to fund their activities? If so, shouldn’t this whole ad campaign be anti-credit instead of anti-drugs? or are we not supposed to let a little thing like logic get in the way of the message.
My favorite anti-drug message… “Drugs are bad. M’kay!” by South Park’s resident school counselor, Mr. Mackey
“It could be your son or daughter! Or YOURS!! Or YOURS!!!”
How about:
“Every time you puff on a doobie, God kills a kitten.”
(And don’t tell me that wouldn’t make a cute commercial. 
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That’s Rachel Leigh Cook according to the IMDB.
Is there anything anyone can do to combat these commercials?
They all suck except for the “I learned it from watching you!” one. When I was younger I thought that one was hilarious. It really undermines the whole legitimacy of the Anti-Marijuana movement when they can’t come up with any valid reasons not to smoke
A great place to learn about some of the more recent findings on Marijuana is http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/marijuana/. Newscientist is actually fair about the issue.