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Pot Ads
by markiep

These ads are far superior to the crap that we have seen in the past, like the "prelude to a date rape" scenario in the spot where the barely teen-age boy is trying to get a girl high in order to feel her up. I imagine there have been a few cases of date rape that have pot as a contributing factor, but these are dwarfed but the number of rapes linked to alcohol. Offensive.

These ads are just silly, not offensive. Although I did think that the talking dog must have been the result of something a lot stronger than pot. What a judgmental little runt. Having the faces of disapproval be non-human (dog, alien) is clever, but it just seems to make it abstract to me. It just shows how difficult it is to make a reality-based anti-marijuana ad. Maybe there is a reason it is difficult. There are easier targets out there, like the many substances that are seriously damaging to individuals and society.

You think?

Re: Pot Ads
by charming_weasel

I concur, especially living in North Texas and hearing the mass teenager extinctions that come around once a decade thanks to heroin.

Maybe if the ONDCP was in touch with reality we might get ad campaigns that actually help keep kids away from the dangers of illicit substances.

Pot? Too little to late.

Cheese? It's actually killing teenagers. They are dead because of the drug.

The only real ammunition against pot is that it inhibits or prevents people from being good little taxpaying worker bees. As for the ones who OD on Cheese, well, blame pot?

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