I actually laughed really hard the first time I saw the kid telling the dog he could quit smoking any time. It was funny both because I know people like that, but even funnier because the government thinks it can reach kids through a poorly-animated talking dog. As the target audience (I'm still a teenager), I think this ad fails. Stevenson is right in that the ad pinpoints two drawbacks to pot (being a loser stoner/having no friends because you're a loser stoner), but more than anything the ad cracks me up because I'm so distracted by its extremely low-budget look and somewhat outlandish premise: If you smoke pot, your dog will disappointed in you and aliens will steal your girl. At least the government has figured out the perceived disadvantages of drug use... now to make an effective ad that doesn't provoke mockery and giggling.

I think that the government has correctly identified the 2 greatest dangers that come as the result of chronic marijuana abuse here. Well maybe except for becoming one of the 780,000 people jailed in the USA for possession of marijuana. We are spending 40 Billion dollars a year to combat marijuana use and almost half of us use it.