What is the most embarassing anti-pot propaganda you have every seen?

[SammyBlue]

Mine is the "dude with the fist in his mouth" commercial I saw during a WWF show on USA about a month ago.

A nurse stands behind a guy with his fist in his mouth, translating what the mumbles are:

When I was smoking weed, my friends dared me to see if I could put my fist in my mouth. I did it. Now I can't get it out. I am at the will of others. I am stupid.

Another one was the comparing pot smokers to terrorist funders, saying terrorists got drug money. That one was big after 9/11 (talk about pandering to fear).

The other one was three guys at a drive through smoking weed. A kid on a bike pedals by. Three times, nothing happens, but the fourth time, the potheads hit the gas and run over the kid. Then the tag line comes. . .

Pot. . .evantually, someone gets hurt: And it might not be you!

Fucking embarrassing and stupid!

What is yours, and please give details to see if others have seen the commercial.

[tjwash]

1. The movie "reefer madness" nt

[Cleita]

22. That's the all time classic!

Not only that, get your popcorn and be ready for many unintended comedy moments. We were actually shown that film in high school. Even back then it was a hoot.

:popcorn:

[AllegroRondo]

28. They made a musical out of that recently.

Starring Alan Cumming.

[Geoff R. Casavant]

31. We have that on DVD

It's almost chilling in its campy goodness.

My favorite part -- the movie (and I assume the musical too) takes place in a high school classroom, where concerned parents are being shown a film about the dangers of the demon weed so they can protect their children. Alan Cumming tries to make the point that marijuana is "more addictive than heroin." One parent stands up and says, "wait a second, my sister knew a guy that was addicted to heroin, nothing could be worse than that." Then, to paraphrase:

"Thank you Mr. . . .?"

"Kowalski."

"Kowalski. That's . . . Russian, isn't it?"

"Polish. Um, you know, maybe I have that backwards. Yeah, that's it. He was addicted to marijuana after all."

It's a ploy as old as time -- attack the patriotism of any critic, no matter how obliquely.

[meganmonkey]

2. "You, Dad! I learned it from watching you!"

That's the one I grew up on. Where the dad finds the kid's stash under his bed and asks the kid "Where did you learn to do this?"

"You Dad! I learned it from watching you!"

Which is especially funny because, at least indirectly, I inherited my pot smoking from my dad, too :smoke:

[rocktivity]

3. In the commerical I've seen recently, the pothead is a blowup doll

barely able to breathe due to her being so unresponsive and dull. They honestly expect someone to fall for that?

:smoke:
rocknation

[SammyBlue]

4. In contrast, the one where the "sister" is flat and lifeless?

You see that one?

We used to do so much together. But since she started smoking pot, she just sit there, flat and listless. We don't have fun anymore.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. I don't remember what drugs the kid was supposed to have taken...

but I remember one "spooky" anti-drug film in High School with a kid in rehab or a mental institution whose brain was supposedly so fried all he did was recite the opening lines to "Star Trek", over and over again: "Space.. The Final Frontier.."

I'm sure the kid was putting these anti-drug film people on. We all thought it was a riot.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. These days, pot supposedly causes date rape, parents to let babies drown,

and according to certain DARE classes, it'll make your testicles fall off. (Assuming you're a male)

[FlemingsGhost]

7. The one where two stoners find dad's gun. (n/t)

Flem.

[Beelzebud]

8. Right after 9/11 when they linked it to terrorism in TV ads...

[Arkansas Granny]

16. I always wondered, when I saw that one, how much money from

marijuana growers winds up in the hands of terrorists. As usual, with propaganda, there were no facts to support their claim.

[ZapaPaine]

9. Right after 9/11...

Associating pot smoking with terrorists. Gov't: "If you buy drugs, you are subsidizing the terrorists."

Talk about propaganda and 9/11 exploitation.

[tjwash]

10. I remember that one. The freeps got up in arms about pot-smokers...

...until I mentioned that you are contributing more to terrorism by filling up the tank in your gas hog of a hummer then you ever could by smoking out.

Besides, the best smoke doesn't even come from the middle east, it comes from right here in Northern California...

[CrispyQ]

13. lol

"...until I mentioned that you are contributing more to terrorism by filling up the tank in your gas hog of a hummer then you ever could by smoking out."

Good one!!


:rofl:

[Lori Price CLG]

11. LOLOL!!! That's a good one!! n/t

[madmom]

21. best reason I know of to grow your own.

[Craig3410]

12. It's amazing...

I don't like drugs, but one day, I think I'll try some pot just to piss off the anti-drug people. :evilgrin:

[Bonobo]

14. The one wear the girl smokes pot and gets felt up at the party...

Or how about the one wear the kids with the munchies run over someone at the drive-through fast food window...

Or how about this one: "Just tell your grandma you forgot your lunch date with her cause you were getting high. She'll understand."

Or how about: The one that shows the chain of connections between buying a bag of grass and the trrorists that want to attack America...


The list goes on and on... paid for on our tax dime while we subsidize drug companies that push our kids on legal mood altering drugs like: Lunestra with the magic fucking butterfly of restful feelings, or the "social anxiety drugs"!!! Grrrr!

[lonestarnot]

15. The fried egg commercials.

They make me hungry!

[phrenzy]

17. I've been smoking for 15 years...

Two burn outs (late 20s) sit in a room. One talking (to the spaced out friend), the other one silently staring at a black and white TV wearing dark sunglasses with his mouth gaping open.

(as an anti-drug commercial plays in the background on the TV his friend is staring at)

PotHead:

I'm sick of hearin' that... That "Pot can mess you up..."

I mean, look at me... I've been smokin for 15 years...

I didn't start stealin'...

Didn't get in to all the drugs..

As a matter a fact..

(takes deep hit of joint)

I'd say.. I'm exactly the same... as when I smoked my first joint...

It didn't make me do nothin' different..

(from outside the room, female voice)

Billy did you even LOOK for a job today??

(PotHead)

Huh? Uhhh.. naahh.. Ma... I uh, I called da guy... (trails off)

(OMINOUS VOICE)

"Marijuana can make nothing happen to you too."

LOL

[Freedom_Aflaim]

26. Actually I thought that one was pretty good

because it rang true to me. It was also kinda funny.

Its proably because I know a few guys exactly like that. They are the same today as they were 20 years ago in high school. They sit around in the basement getting high in their parents basement

Don't get me wrong, I know what reality is and many many people have tried pot and became quite successfull. Some have become president even :) Heck I smoked it quite a bit in high school and I've been pretty successfull in career and life, as much one can ask for anyway. Ok I smoked it in college to :)..and about a year ago at a party.

But clearly, this does happen to a certain percentage of folks, i.e. they are 30 years old, still living at home, doped up all the time with no future.

But most of these ads...gheesh, they are terrible. The current stupid one is with the girl who's deflated. (rolling my eyes)

[phrenzy]

27. Yeah might have been the most 'accurate'

Yeah the ad definitely struck a realistic type of pothead character. Although, when I see people like that, I figure they smoke weed because the are lazy burnouts... If most of these people didn't smoke pot they'd still sit around doing nothing.

[nonconformist]

18. ALL OF THEM.

Where are the meth commercials is what I think whenever I see an anti-marijuana ad - since unlike weed, meth is extremely dangerous and potentially fatal to even produce much less take.

[SammyBlue]

19. They did come out with one!

Remember that lame "Go Meth. . .Go Meth" musical commercial? Where the woman on "meth" was cleaning the house all day?

You know what that made me think of? "Jeez, maybe I need a tweaker for a maid."

[nonconformist]

20. LOL!

I must have missed that one, but HA!

[OneBlueSky]

23. what I can't figure out is "Why the obsession with pot?" . . .

I mean, it's a pretty benign substance, and there are certainly tons of really dangerous drugs out there that deserve far more attention and resources than weed . . . so why the BushCo obsession with pot? . . . any ideas? . . .

[SammyBlue]

25. To keep Americans diverted and off topic.

Harping on the Chronic problem will keep people's mind off of the Coke problem President Weak and Stupid has!

[firefox]

24. One where grandson is late to see grandma

There is one where a boy enhanced on laughing grass and was late to see his grandmother, all because of demon weed. First, there should have been an anti-prohibition ad to answer it. It should have the boy be late because he got busted and show the call to grandma where he wants bail money. Then grandma could say, there goes my sedative medicine.

Nobody says that children should be consuming cannabis. All of this happens under a prohibition the government won't even call prohibition. When these ads come they will be the prohibition ads, not because they would be against prohibition, but because prohibition will actually be a word said in the commercials.

Grandma hates prohibition.

[90-percent]

29. drugs?

If you pay income taxes, you are subsidizing the terrorists."

-85% jimmy

[Gabi Hayes]

30. smoke weed, and......die!

[abex]

32. 'there's no wrong way to talk to your kid about drugs'

which leaves plenty of room for government lies and parental hypocrisy.