Here's something to support
Jan. 16th, 2003 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebratqueenThanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
catscradle for the link.
You know those totally ass anti-drug commericals that try to convince you that using drugs supports terrorism far more than, say, our country's crippling dependancy on oil? Well The Detroit Project has created two amazing commercials to try to counteract this bit of propaganda and remind people that SUV drivers have more to answer for than Bush would like us to remember.
They're trying to get money to actually get the ads on the air, ideally during Bush's State of the Union address. I gave 'em five bucks.
In related news, I was chatting withcatscradle about those other jackass anti-drug ads, and since I've always meant to rant about them here I may as well just cut and paste and save myself the time.
[quoting myself from here]
The thing that gets me is that first and foremost they make no sense. I, who am not a stoner, can't even understand why we get 3-5 different senarios before the nasty one. What is the repetition with a slight change each time supposed to indicate? And if I can't figure it out, I can't imagine what they think people who are as stoned as the people in the commercials are going to get out of it.
And then add on top of it that the commercials don't even give the right message! If you watch any of those commercials the message you get is "Pot is harmful, but only about 25% of the time and even then only under really specific circumstances like your friend's dad keeping a loaded gun in the unlocked drawer you by chance happened to sit near." to which the obvious conclusion is - great! No harm at all then as long as I avoid those circumstances!
I mean if they want to talk about the downside of pot why not show somebody who's got no motivation b/c he's been a stoner all his life? Or show what a jackass someone can look like when they're high? That at least relates back to the product and a danger that could apply to everyone that uses it.
And don't get me started on the "Drugs support terrorists. No they do. No they just DO god-damn it! Stop questioning me!" bullshit. Because I seriously doubt the pot you buy from that friend of a friend who grows it in his own apt under a heat lamp is tossing money into the hands of, well, anyone but him, let alone terrorists.
catscradle for the link.You know those totally ass anti-drug commericals that try to convince you that using drugs supports terrorism far more than, say, our country's crippling dependancy on oil? Well The Detroit Project has created two amazing commercials to try to counteract this bit of propaganda and remind people that SUV drivers have more to answer for than Bush would like us to remember.
They're trying to get money to actually get the ads on the air, ideally during Bush's State of the Union address. I gave 'em five bucks.
In related news, I was chatting with
catscradle about those other jackass anti-drug ads, and since I've always meant to rant about them here I may as well just cut and paste and save myself the time.[quoting myself from here]
The thing that gets me is that first and foremost they make no sense. I, who am not a stoner, can't even understand why we get 3-5 different senarios before the nasty one. What is the repetition with a slight change each time supposed to indicate? And if I can't figure it out, I can't imagine what they think people who are as stoned as the people in the commercials are going to get out of it.
And then add on top of it that the commercials don't even give the right message! If you watch any of those commercials the message you get is "Pot is harmful, but only about 25% of the time and even then only under really specific circumstances like your friend's dad keeping a loaded gun in the unlocked drawer you by chance happened to sit near." to which the obvious conclusion is - great! No harm at all then as long as I avoid those circumstances!
I mean if they want to talk about the downside of pot why not show somebody who's got no motivation b/c he's been a stoner all his life? Or show what a jackass someone can look like when they're high? That at least relates back to the product and a danger that could apply to everyone that uses it.
And don't get me started on the "Drugs support terrorists. No they do. No they just DO god-damn it! Stop questioning me!" bullshit. Because I seriously doubt the pot you buy from that friend of a friend who grows it in his own apt under a heat lamp is tossing money into the hands of, well, anyone but him, let alone terrorists.
