# When I say no weed I mean it Mister! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 18, 2003, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-no-weed-i-mean-it-mister/213805 "2003-11-18T00:18:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-no-weed-i-mean-it-mister/213805/41 "2003-11-18T19:24:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Deadly Nightlight \* > \*\*Well then can I change this pitting to dumb parents who make commercials like this neccessary? \*\* You mean the parents who feel they should be their kids’ friends instead of lowering the boom when need be? By all means. ---
**Author:** ![KarmaComa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@KarmaComa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarmaComa)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-no-weed-i-mean-it-mister/213805/42 "2003-11-18T19:29:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \* > **If you get stoned one time and walk right past us, comically attempting to act unstoned, we will realize we did the same thing when we were seventeen, and take no action except for teasing you about it in four years.** Thanks, Matt, for reminding me of some of the most awkward moments of my adolescence. Trying to act unstoned around my mom, who is one of the most high-strung people I know… and has mellowed out considerably since I moved out! Or maybe that’s me. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-no-weed-i-mean-it-mister/213805/43 "2003-11-18T19:59:00Z")
My mom sat me down one day when I was about twelve. “Ninja\*,” she said, "someday, someone’s going to offer you a beer, or a cigarette, or drugs. I want you to know that I trust you to make the right decision. You know that drinking too much is unhealthy, and that cigarettes are bad for you too. “Now, when I was in college, I smoked pot. I ate it in brownies. It made me giddy for a while and then really, really hungry. I don’t see what the big deal is, but if you want to try it someday, I’ll understand. But don’t do anything harder – coke’ll kill you, and heroin’s even worse.” Simple, honest, direct. Better than a thousand don’t-do-drugs commercials, too. - It’s such a nice name for a girl. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-no-weed-i-mean-it-mister/213805/44 "2003-11-18T20:57:59Z")
I should add my own experiences with parents as a pot-smokin’ teen. My parents found out because I told them I was doing it. Their reaction? “For Christ’s sake, smoke it in the house. I don’t want you getting arrested for smoking dope in some parking lot.” The best part was, a few weeks later, when I’m hanging out with some friends in my room, and my mom came in while the bong was out in the middle of the table. All my friends panic, my mom walks over, takes a hit off the bong, and walks out. From that point on, my parents were officially cooler than any individual in our peer group. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-no-weed-i-mean-it-mister/213805/45 "2003-11-18T21:12:59Z")
This ad doesn’t piss me off the way the others do, because having a mom breathing fire down a kid’s neck about drugs is at least realistic, as opposed to pot causing teenage pregnancy as another one seemed to say. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-no-weed-i-mean-it-mister/213805/46 "2003-11-18T21:27:53Z")
Heh. **Miller** turned into his parents. Frank Zappa was right, after all. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-no-weed-i-mean-it-mister/213805/47 "2003-11-18T21:41:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diogenes the Cynic \* > When I was about 16 I once got busted smoking a joint with one of my moron, stoner friends. The cops brought me home at like 2:00 am and woke up my parents. My dad listened quietly to the cops then closed the front door when they left. > > Then he turned to me and laid me out with a right cross. Give me a pot-smoking parent instead of a child abuser any day. A couple-a tokes would’ve mellowed him out a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Deadly\_Nightlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Deadly\_Nightlight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deadly_Nightlight)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-no-weed-i-mean-it-mister/213805/48 "2003-11-18T23:19:10Z")
I just saw this commercial again, I wish my mother was that mild when she was punishing me. ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-no-weed-i-mean-it-mister/213805/49 "2003-11-19T01:35:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by slu \* > \*\*Yeah, it wasn’t that easy to get weed when I was in high school. We had to work our asses off for it. Now beer on the other hand was very easy to get. \*\* My experience was the opposite. Before I turned 21, I had a much easier time finding weed than alcohol. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-no-weed-i-mean-it-mister/213805/50 "2003-11-19T03:43:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > \*\*The best part was, a few weeks later, when I’m hanging out with some friends in my room, and my mom came in while the bong was out in the middle of the table. All my friends panic, my mom walks over, takes a hit off the bong, and walks out. From that point on, my parents were officially cooler than any individual in our peer group. \*\* "Once when I was a kid I wanted to go see a movie with my friends, and my mom would _not_ let me go by myself. She wanted to come with us. So I had to see _The Wall_ with my _mom!_ About halfway through the film someone actually passed her a joint! ‘What is this? Why they give this to me, I don’t smoke, I – _puff_ – -- I’m going to buy popcorn.’ " - Margaret Cho ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-no-weed-i-mean-it-mister/213805/51 "2003-11-19T05:52:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kinthalis \* > \*\*The real problems with these commercials is that they promote misinformation and act as nothing more than propaganda for the so called ‘war on drugs’. \*\* No, the real problem is _ **you** _, who has obviously not seen this ad at all. What misinformation is disseminated through this advertisement? None, moron. So, I will give your ‘opinion’ on the evil ‘war on drugs’ the consideration it deserves; none fucking whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-no-weed-i-mean-it-mister/213805/52 "2003-11-19T06:48:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eonwe \* > \*\*No, the real problem is _ **you** _, who has obviously not seen this ad at all. What misinformation is disseminated through this advertisement? None, moron. So, I will give your ‘opinion’ on the evil ‘war on drugs’ the consideration it deserves; none fucking whatsoever. \*\* This ad doesn’t, but it’s from the same people who brought you the wonderful [Smoke a Joint, Drown a Baby](http://www.mediacampaign.org/multimedia/pool.mov) ad. I don’t really mind the “Enforcer” ad mentioned in the OP so much, but I have a major beef with other parts of the campaign. And let’s not even talk about those bastards over at A Partnership for a Drug Free America. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-no-weed-i-mean-it-mister/213805/53 "2003-11-19T11:34:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JonScribe \* > \*\*You don’t need it? Great. I don’t need it either. But I do know a few parents that do have problems telling their kids no about pot, staying out late, having sex and so forth. \*\* OK, gotta ask. Do you think that they’ll get the message from this ad??? I agree that there are bad, weak parents out there. But they are not going to become good, strong parents from ads like this. I laugh to myself whenever I see this ad. It’s when Jr declines to hit the joint, telling his compadres that he fears getting grounded again. No kid could EVER live that down. They’d call him a pussy for _the rest of his life._ In my drug-using days, I’da laughed in his face. Now, if he declined and simply said he didn’t want to, he could save face. ---
**Author:** ![WILLASS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WILLASS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WILLASS)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-no-weed-i-mean-it-mister/213805/54 "2003-11-19T12:49:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Garfield226 \* > \*\* > Know what? Now that I’m away at college, I don’t do drugs or drink or have wild promiscuous sex even though it’s HIGHLY unlikely my parents would ever find out. Know why? Because they taught me values and morals and I want to make them proud. That’s what good parenting is. \*\* Seriousley, isn’t college the time of your life that you _should_ be doing this? The window of oppurtunity is rapidly closing, in 20 years time your going to have to pay for girls like that…😃 ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-no-weed-i-mean-it-mister/213805/55 "2003-11-19T13:33:10Z")
Unfortunately my parents made the fatal mistake of telling me they smoked weed. Dad: “I only did it once, I was drunk anyway, it made me dizzy and I threw up.”. Mum: “One time I ate hash cookies and wore a bear costume, it was the best day of my life. There was a civil war on, and I was an intern in the emergency room, you had to relax somehow.” So all I got was that smoking weed can’t damage you too much, because, hey, look at my folks! ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-no-weed-i-mean-it-mister/213805/56 "2003-11-19T13:58:00Z")
> [@](#): > > One time I ate hash cookies and wore a bear costume, it was the best day of my life. There was a civil war on, and I was an intern in the emergency room, you had to relax somehow." someone, Somone PLEASE use this as their sig. It’s great 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-no-weed-i-mean-it-mister/213805/57 "2003-11-19T16:34:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diogenes the Cynic \* > \*\*When I was about 16 I once got busted smoking a joint with one of my moron, stoner friends. The cops brought me home at like 2:00 am and woke up my parents. My dad listened quietly to the cops then closed the front door when they left. > > Then he turned to me and laid me out with a right cross. > > When he said no weed, he meant no weed. \*\* As anti-drug PSA’s go, the one refered to in the OP isn’t that bad. It doesn’t insult one’s intelligence or pander to the hysterical. As for laying out one’s own flesh and blood with a right cross, though, I think that’s sick. I think it’s too bad that some people can say they mean no weed, but not have a problem with sucker punching their own kids. For ANY reason. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-no-weed-i-mean-it-mister/213805/58 "2003-11-19T19:56:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by WILLASS \* > **Seriousley** , isn’t college the time of your life that you should be doing this? The window of **oppurtunity** is rapidly closing, in 20 years time **your** going to have to pay for girls like that…😃 (bolding mine…) Guess we know what you spent college doing, huh? ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-no-weed-i-mean-it-mister/213805/59 "2003-11-19T21:00:50Z")
> [@](#): > > Unfortunately my parents made the fatal mistake of telling me they smoked weed. > > \ > > So all I got was that smoking weed can’t damage you too much, because, hey, look at my folks! What’s unfortunate about learning the truth from your parents? I just got a little high and happily cleaned the kitchen. Maybe a commercial about that would “scare 'em straight”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-no-weed-i-mean-it-mister/213805/60 "2003-11-19T22:26:42Z")
Perhaps if the woman had been like, “Dammit, Johnny, you little punk, if I ever catch you smoking marijuana again I’m going to lay you out!” THEN it would be more realistic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-no-weed-i-mean-it-mister/213805.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-no-weed-i-mean-it-mister/213805.md?page=4)