...if you smoke pot, you'll ruin our chances for first contact and your girlfriend will leave you for an extraterrestrial.

http://www.abovetheinfluence.com/the-ads/default.aspx?home=launchagain

I really hate these anti-smoking ads. It seems they are played much too often on TV.

It is ironic. These ads defeat their mission of "spreading knowledge" when they became too annoying to watch.

I don't mind anti drug commercials, but I hate the ones that are complete bull****.

Fracking elitist commercials that were obviously drawn by a 3rd grader who knows only one thing about pot, and that is he should say "No!" if he hears the very word.

Now I'm against any type of smokers as much as the next guy, unless they are indeed smokers, but beside the point that I wish whatever God they beleived in will kill them faster so they can stop blowing smoke in my face, theres nothing more I care less about than an anti-pot commercial that makes you feel like your tripping yourself.

I like their "facts" on marijuana. They are nothing but numbers showing a correlation between pot smokers, bad grades and depression. They don't stop to point out that most of this kids probably smoke pot because their grades suck, and have depression later in life because they're just losers.

Durr :downs:

Also, we must realize that cigarettes can now be lighted by lasers, as demonstrated:

(click to enlarge)

I dunno, I know it's anecdotal but at my old school it was a super-selective grammar school which basically meant everyone (by that I mean most boys in SE London) took an exam for entrance and only the very top percentage got in. So it was basically filled with the academically smart and a few lucky buggers. There were plenty of kids who were doing fine until they started to smoke pot and then it started to all go downhill. In general their attitudes to work changed more than them necessarily being any less intelligent.
It must be insanely hard to try to study a drug with so many variables to try to control and even more so when its use is illegal.

You're assuming that smoking was the cause of the change, not an effect. For some, I'm sure it was a cause. I don't think pot, or any drugs should be taken lightly. It's just that anecdotal evidence is, inherently, completely useless.

A good friend of mine smoked a lot of pot and drank quite a bit his first year at RIT. RIT isn't an easy school. Yet he managed to maintain above a 3.5 GPA and a part time job. He actually got second year status before I did. And the funny thing about that, is that I'm a year older than him. He got there first because I fell behind my first year. That first year, I didn't touch a single substance. My second year, which was probably the best year of my life, I drank quite a bit. I think you see where I'm going with this. These stories are anecdotal, but they contradict other anecdotal evidence. Neither provide any answers.

But at least that site doesn't have outright false information on it, only suggestive phrases and weasel words. They aren't like those nutjobs that claim pot causes every ailment known to mankind.

so this means if we all become pirates that we can fight global warming!

YARR

From what I've seen, I'd have to say encouraging people not to smoke pot is a good thing. You people must be really sensitive or something if these commercials bother you.

Ha, I don't have a girlfriend!

BURN!

Haha, his girlfriend did LSD!

I don't have a problem with discouraging the use of pot. I have a problem with discouraging the use of pot through weasely propaganda.

^^ My feelings exactly. These commercials prevent people from making an informed[/b] decision. Is that such a terrible thing - to educate people on the effects of drugs?

I just like how there are members of our government that have fairly extensive drug backgrounds who feel they need to make sure that no one else can decide drugs are bad for themselves.

Drugs rock.

Watching that commercial makes me feel like I'm on drugs.

Why do they make these? They are either going to have no effect or there going to backfire and make someone start smoking pot just to spite this bull****.

Man... watching that commercial made me want to get high.

*leaves for a few*

That deathstar superlaser hanging on the right there is almost surprising enough to make up for making the chart so frakkin huge.

I also find it funny that they assume that you see crazy **** like that when your high. Maybe if you grow a plant with 75% THC somehow.

I don't think it's supposed to be a hallucination, since she leaves in the frickin' space ship.

It kind of depends on whats IN the pot.. and how much of that pot you smoke.


There have been some pretty heinous things in pot I've smoked. Mild hallucinogens being one of them fo sho.

WUUUwe:

I bet the alien has filthier habits like dissecting humans and drinking their BILE

It's a hunch lol
HJC


VIVVIreR

The worst thing is that it's our tax money that funds the creation and broadcast of these stupid *** commericals. I simply can't believe they try to justify taking our money and using it on an anti-smoking commercial. So stupid. Do you think even one kid decided one day to start smoking, and then saw the stupid commercial, and decided all of a sudden to stop? I doubt it.

http://www.youtube.com/v/pVRO_a6pQB8

Brain-snorting Anti-drug commmercial.
<Warning Some blood and some brain>

That one's really not all that bad. It's not going to give people the false impression that smoking pot will make your feel up a girl at a party or pull a gun out of a desk and shoot your buddy in the head.

That brain snorting one made me want to try brain snorting....


IMMITATABLE ACT.

The problem is people want the government and its social organizations do something to stop underage drug using. If the government did nothing, it gets blamed for turning its back on a social problem. If they do these so sort of campaigns, they get blamed for wasting money.

Here's a message for the kids:

Dont smoke, unless you happen to be drinking, as smoking will enhance your buzz.

The more you know...

THC is a mild hallucinogen.

They really only need a very simple campaign concerning marijuana:

• Here's why people do it
• Here are the risks to your health induced by smoking pot
• Here's what can happen if you're caught

Presto-change-o, you've got people making informed decisions and a (hopefully) correct application of our tax dollars.