You mean the parents who feel they should be their kids’ friends instead of lowering the boom when need be? By all means.
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. 
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.
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.
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.
Heh.
Miller turned into his parents.
Frank Zappa was right, after all.
Give me a pot-smoking parent instead of a child abuser any day. A couple-a tokes would’ve mellowed him out a bit.
I just saw this commercial again, I wish my mother was that mild when she was punishing me.
My experience was the opposite. Before I turned 21, I had a much easier time finding weed than alcohol.
"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
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 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.
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.
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…
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!
someone, Somone PLEASE use this as their sig. It’s great 
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.
(bolding mine…)
Guess we know what you spent college doing, huh?
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”.
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.