With Canadians smoking more pot than any other people in the industrialized world the Conservative government has decided to put a stop to it.  Yesterday federal Health Minister Tony Clement announced that the federal government, who are concerned that there are nearly as many people who smoke marijuana as ones who smoke tobacco, are planning an ultra expensive anti-drug campaign with the aim of turning kids off of pot and onto alcohol (okay they didn’t say “turn onto alcohol” but you know that’s what’s going to happen), and decrying the fact that “Canada has not run a serious or significant anti-drug campaign for almost 20 years.”

 

Want to know why Canada hasn’t run an anti-drug campaign in almost 20 years? Because it doesn’t work! Seriously, just take those anti-marijuana commercials for example – you know the ones that compare smoking pot to supporting terriorism and claim marijuana will make you crazy, get you raped,  cause you to shoot your neighbour, and/or will cause the resurgence of SARS? (Okay, so I made the last one up but, doesn’t it sound like the kind of scare tactic the government would make up?), or how about the one with the talking dog that tries to convince a girl not to smoke pot (is it not a little hypocritical that the people who come up with these ads do it while they’re high? Just a little?)  The ones that really tickle my ribs and set off a giggle fest inside of me are the ones that end with “marijuana kills” – like the one where a young dude smokes pot, then puts the barrel of shotgun in his mouth and kills himself while the narrator can be over heard saying “marijuana kills” – me and my buds have an on going joke where the punch-line is always "Marijuana Kills". Basically what we do is make up preposterous situations where someone who’s smoking pot dies from completely unrelated reasons.  For instance, a man is chilling out in his kitchen smoking a spliff when all of a sudden an unidentified flying object lands on his roof, aliens come out and proceed to anally probe the man until he dies while a narrator is overheard saying, “Marijuana Kills”.  Pretty stupid, eh?

 

Almost no one ever takes those anti-marijuana campaigns to heart, and a 2005 study proved it researchers found that anti-marijuana campaigns create as many negative thoughts and impressions about pot use as positive ones.  And why should anyone take them to heart? Especially since many of these anti-drug marijuana ads don't even bother telling the truth. It's just total scare tactics, trading on stereotypes that anybody who ever smoked a single bowl knows is total bullshit (which is why they always use words like “can” or “could” rather than “has shown to” or “proven to”).

 

If the conservative government honestly (I know that’s a foreign word to them) wants to combat drug use then they should reopen all the Withdrawal Management Centres they closed down, not cut harm reduction services (which they’re threatening to do in 200 , and start providing health-card-paid treatment options.

weed isn't exactly my drug of choice just because i don't like the feeling of being stoned much at all.
but i do love the anti-drug commercials, definitely. if the country's going to waste money upon a campaign with little effectiveness, at least people will get a good chuckle out of seeing their efforts.

hey i like to get igh ones in a whie and i never attemted to kill myself or others.those ads are a bunch a crap why ca't they make an honest ad.

Thought I'd stop by and share a wee joke or whatever I know that I shared with you about "dope will get you through times of no money better than money can get you through times of no dope"!
Working By Results

A minister dies and is waiting in line at the Pearly Gates. Ahead of him is a guy who's dressed in sunglasses, a loud shirt, leather jacket, and jeans. Saint Peter addresses this guy, "Who are you, so that I may know whether or not to admit you to the Kingdom of Heaven?"

The guy replies, "I'm Joe Cohen, taxi-driver, of New York City."

Saint Peter consults his list. He smiles and says to the taxi-driver, "Take this silken robe and golden staff and enter the Kingdom of Heaven."
Cheers D-

The taxi-driver goes into Heaven with his robe and staff, and it's the minister's turn.He stands erect and booms out, "I am Joseph Snow, pastor of Saint Mary's for the last forty-three years."

Saint Peter consults his list. He says to the minister, "Take this cotton robe and wooden staff and enter the Kingdom of Heaven."

"Just a minute," says the minister. "That man was a taxi-driver and he gets a silken robe and golden staff. How can this be?"

"Up here, we work by results," says Saint Peter. "While you preached, people slept; while he drove, people prayed."

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