Why are all the anti-drug ads about Marijuana?

When the real drug problem lies with dangerous drugs like Methamphetamines and prescription opiates? It's odd that I've never seen or heard an anti-drug ad that even mentions them. If I were a kid and someone offered me a choice between "pot" and a "little blue", I'd probably take the little blue because the ad only said pot is bad.

Something has to change here, and soon. I hear there's a bumper crop of Afghani heroin on it's way to our shores as I type. I sure hope the kids don't get the idea that heroin isn't as bad as pot.

of pots gateway drug status, its probably much more likely to be the first illegal drug you encounter than any other one.

where pot is not a gateway drug.

I mean: is the correlation between pot and hard drugs any stronger than the correlation between alcohol or tobacco and hard drugs? I don't know, but I doubt it.

Alcohol is much more likely to be first, and at the age most try it, they are under the drinking age, so it's illegal.

But they are also an important demographic for the beer and booze companies, so you won't see as many don't-drink-underage public service announcements as you will anti-pot PSAs.

I don't think I've ever seen an anti-heroin PSA. Except maybe that one where the goth girl busts up her kitchen? (wasn't that one about heroin?).

but I'm talking about all the new ads. They seem to have ramped up recently and they're all about Marijuana and sometimes Ecstasy.

but I was smoking a joint while watching it so maybe I'm not remembering right?

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you drink alcohol you'll get laid ads on right after another alcohol is more addictive

I've ever SEEN.

The message of them -- government sponsored and funded and produced anti-drug ads -- is "Dude! Drugs make you score! Duuude!"

How is that not unbelievably funny?

-C

Several reasons, all of them bad;

1. Marijuana workplace testing is big business for GOP campaign donors.

2. They see Marijuana as a means to control the low-income population. Almost a bill of attainder allowing them to arrest any young black, hispanic, or poor white person at will.

3. There is a big industry incarcerating marijuana offenders, you guessed it, run by GOP campaign donors.

You hit the nail on the head.


It's also a way of keep minorities from voting, by not allowing felons to vote.

About 1/3 of black males have been incarcerated. I betcha' very few of them voted repug.

If we go by your criteria, wouldn't anti-pot ads decrease its use, making #1, #2, and #3 less profitable? :shrug::shrug::shrug:

See, they don't really work, and the GOP knows this.

What they DO, quite successfully, is to create a constituency for continued criminalization of marijuana! They are the "reefer madness" of our day.

They want to demonize marijuana use. That's the purpose.

They don't want to actually win the war on drugs; they just want it to go on forever.

How much money is allocated overall to the DEA....millions, billions?

Think if that money was used for education and rehabilitation.

someone in this thread posted it was because of it's gateway drug status and I agree that's probably why you see more marijuana ads than other drug ads.

Of course marijuana isn't really a gateway drug. If it really was, all folks who use marijuana would eventually use heroin or some of the other really "dangerous" drugs. I think it's like 2% or something like that - correct me if I'm wrong.

Using the same logic of those that believe marijuana is a gateway drug, those same folks should also have to believe alcohol is also a gateway drug and so is tobacco and have you noticed that just about everyone who uses drugs at some time in their life has had a driver's license or wanted to get one - atleast in the United States anyway.

It's obvious that driving leads to the hard stuff,




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is the most popular illegal drug.

So they spend our tax dollars on a non-addictive euphoric that is grown right here in the US (California usually).

It gives one the illusion they are doing something . . .

If they only had spent one-tenth the money on finding and prosecuting terrorists as they do in drug interdiction, we'd be a helluva lot safer.

like I gotta fill in the blanks hehehe.

I can't remember where I heard this, but I can believe it. The number two is Apples - if I remember correctly - and next comes potatoes. At one time it was trees...

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they figure if they scare you, you will quit. :smoke:

where marijuana is by far the drug that the most time is spent getting high with, from the kids/relatives people whom the powerbase of this country care about most.

are changed to fit the current administration. Soon after the *Bush administration came into office marijuana became an important target. I tend to think it was so that they could target all the medical marijuana laws that were being passed.

The "real problem" with drugs is that you get screwed by the black market price to obtain them, and get sucked into the criminal justice system if you get caught with them.

Like Pot, the opiates derived from the beautiful poppy flowers are quite harmless if used properly. Overdoses occur because the products aren't properly regulated and dosed. The solution to the problem of drug abuse is education and regulation, not bullshit propaganda campaigns and incarceration.

We should be allowed to do whatever the hell we want to do, as long as we aren't harming others.

were the two frying pan ads...

the eggs in the frying pan (which was a general drugs are bad advert) and one were the lady swung the frying pan around smashing all kinds of things saying drugs were the frying pan (I think this one was specifically about marijuana) and your friends were the things that got smashed because of your drug use.

It was adverts like this that make me laugh at the idiocy of the anti-drug folks. It's what made me lose all respect and belief in my government after my first toke. It became crystal clear that I had been duped and these people didn't know what they were talking about at all,

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Back in my younger days, I smoked pot. Lots of it. My senior year in college, I got high every day (and still graduated cum laude). I never touched another drug, despite the fact that many of my friends got heavily into coke and I spent many nights partying with folks who were doing lines the entire night. Sometimes I got bored; sometimes I got way too tired; every time people were trying to get me to do a line. I never did.

Great must read. Drug Crazy by Mike Gray


http://www.drugcrazy.com/mikegray.htm

like Fox News

They make pot the number one enemy, then when their efforts to stop it are futile, it isn't as big a deal.