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Alright, so I imagine most of the americans here who watch a modicum of TV have seen the "I am my anti-drug" commercial, with the teenagers looking at the supermarket scanner and the overt monolouge about how they don't smoke pot and they're model citizens and they've saved cats and entire orphanages from burning buildings because they don't do drugs. I wanna know what dipshit felt it was a good idea to have the image be of a guy looking into a supermarket scanner. EVERY stoner I know does that, ALL THE TIME.

The director just likes lasers. :)

Dunno.we don't get anti-drug propaganda over here much.

where

Probably just an oversight. It is funny, though.

The President has planted subliminal messages in those ads, hes brainwashing us to produce cheap plastic toys!
Soon the US will be a real match for China!
FEAR US!
Rawr!

Alright, so I imagine most of the americans here who watch a modicum of TV have seen the "I am my anti-drug" commercial, with the teenagers looking at the supermarket scanner and the overt monolouge about how they don't smoke pot and they're model citizens and they've saved cats and entire orphanages from burning buildings because they don't do drugs. I wanna know what dipshit felt it was a good idea to have the image be of a guy looking into a supermarket scanner. EVERY stoner I know does that, ALL THE TIME.


I must have missed the one where the kid saves orphans from the burning buildings and then says:

"ORPHANS - My anti-drug"

lol

My thoughts exactly, Pyta. I was thinking the very same thing.

Drugs are bad for you

drugs are bad kids, nkay

Alcohol is my anti-drug. When I get trashed, I don't feel the need to get high. Hell, I don't feel anything. That's why alcohol is such a good anti-drug!

Alcohol is my anti-drug. When I get trashed, I don't feel the need to get high. Hell, I don't feel anything. That's why alcohol is such a good anti-drug!

Both goddammit! Do both??!!!!! ;)

Pot is my anti drug, when i get really stoned, well, hell, i cant pick up the bong much less smoke some more.


Remember kids, the more pot you do, the less pot you will do!

Watch week 11 \/ \/
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running out of drugs is my antidrug

Alcohol and pot are my anti-drug. When I have had lots of both I don't feel the need to get more of it.

drugs are bad kids, nkay
Yes they are. Give them to me. I will get rid of them for you. :D

The anti-drug people need to work on helping kids have a little more will-power. That would probably keep a lot of kids from taking drugs, if they can resist pressure to take drugs, then most of them are set.

The anti-drug people need to work on helping kids have a little more will-power. That would probably keep a lot of kids from taking drugs, if they can resist pressure to take drugs, then most of them are set.
kids have as much right to take drugs as their parents do

The anti-drug people need to work on helping kids have a little more will-power. That would probably keep a lot of kids from taking drugs, if they can resist pressure to take drugs, then most of them are set.

I don't understand this "pressure to take drugs" mantra. If I was loaded with drugs, I wouldn't hassle random people on the street to try out what I've got. What sense does that make?

kids have as much right to take drugs as their parents do

Then keep parents from taking drugs also. Drugs suck, nobody should take them.

I don't understand this "pressure to take drugs" mantra. If I was loaded with drugs, I wouldn't hassle random people on the street to try out what I've got. What sense does that make?

Kids pressure other kids or best friends to take drugs all the time, and the kids usually listen to them and go ahead and take drugs because they trust their friends.

Then keep parents from taking drugs also. Drugs suck, nobody should take them.not true--people not only have a human right to have fun but a biological need to altar their conscussness

Kids pressure other kids or best friends to take drugs all the time, and the kids usually listen to them and go ahead and take drugs because they trust their friends.
so

I don't agree with the concept of drugs at all. People who are high don't have good judgement, they could harm themselves and others. Screw their right to take drugs, drugs are illegal and they should be. I really don't know why anyone would want to destroy their body by taking them, anyway.

I don't agree with the concept of drugs at all. People who are high don't have good judgement, they could harm themselves and others. Screw their right to take drugs, drugs are illegal and they should be. I really don't know why anyone would want to destroy their body by taking them, anyway.
my judgment is better when Im high--and why would people want to destroy their bodies eating junk food and drinking soda?we dont need nanny state facists telling us what we can do with our bodies

Drugs suck, nobody should take them.
Thats your opinion. Not a fact.

my judgment is better when Im high--and why would people want to destroy their bodies eating junk food and drinking soda?we dont need nanny state facists telling us what we can do with our bodies

Junk food destroys your body too, but not nearly as fast. Besides, you may claim to be more alert when you are high, but that sure isn't the case for the majority of people. If drugs were legal, I don't care what anyone says about things that are legal being less desirable, I think that everything in this society would be awful. Crime would be up, because of course drugs impair judgement, and the life expectancy would probably go way down. In my opinion anyone who takes and gets addicted to drugs is a moron.

the life expectancy would probably go way down.
Life expectancy in the Netherlands is "higher" :D then in the US.

those commercials are so retarded. i know plenty of stoners and none of them are anything like what are portrayed on them. i don't know a single stoner who is 30 and living in their parent's basement, nor do i know someone who skips out on their responsabilities or schoolwork to get stoned, hell, i know a girl who gets stoned for the purpose of writing better essays.

The anti-drug people need to work on helping kids have a little more will-power. That would probably keep a lot of kids from taking drugs, if they can resist pressure to take drugs, then most of them are set.

what pressure? i don't even know anyone who would say "oh, you're a pussy if you don't smoke pot" it's more like "you don't want to, that's ok, help yourself to the munchies anyways"

I wonder if any1 would say "religion is my anti-drug" . . . if u never heard of the famous Marx quote "religion is the opiate of the masses"

Junk food destroys your body too, but not nearly as fast.

you do realsie that smoking pot on occasion does fuck all for your health, right? the only thing that can happen is lung cancer, and that's from long term and nearly constant use. so not as quickly as junk food and mcdonald's can lead to obesity.
as for harder drugs, they can be more harmful.

Besides, you may claim to be more alert when you are high, but that sure isn't the case for the majority of people.

pot heightens the senses. i think it's something that happens with most, if not all users. also, if you've ever been out in the dark and stoned, you'll know that the slightest noise or figure walking along a dark path is enough to snap you right the hell out of your mellow state...

If drugs were legal, I don't care what anyone says about things that are legal being less desirable, I think that everything in this society would be awful. Crime would be up, because of course drugs impair judgement, and the life expectancy would probably go way down. In my opinion anyone who takes and gets addicted to drugs is a moron.

if i recall, in the netherlands, none of these things have happened.

and aside from that: marijuana is as addictive as this message board. perhaps less so... depending on which you like more i suppose. at any rate, it's not physically addictive at all. there's no real reason for pot to be illegal except the usefullness of hemp.

what pressure? i don't even know anyone who would say "oh, you're a pussy if you don't smoke pot" it's more like "you don't want to, that's ok, help yourself to the munchies anyways"

With some of the friends people have, they'd be labelled "loser" for not taking drugs. I like the commericials that talk about helping your friend stop using drugs, where they show one kid watching their friend drown or the newest one where a kid crashes his bike in the street and a truck is coming around the corner.

you do realsie that smoking pot on occasion does fuck all for your health, right? the only thing that can happen is lung cancer, and that's from long term and nearly constant use. so not as quickly as junk food and mcdonald's can lead to obesity.
as for harder drugs, they can be more harmful.



pot heightens the senses. i think it's something that happens with most, if not all users. also, if you've ever been out in the dark and stoned, you'll know that the slightest noise or figure walking along a dark path is enough to snap you right the hell out of your mellow state...



if i recall, in the netherlands, none of these things have happened.

and aside from that: marijuana is as addictive as this message board. perhaps less so... depending on which you like more i suppose. at any rate, it's not physically addictive at all. there's no real reason for pot to be illegal except the usefullness of hemp.

I'm not just talking about marijuana, I don't think it is smart to take any variety of drugs. Not cocaine, meth, heroine, etc.

you do realsie that smoking pot on occasion does fuck all for your health, right? the only thing that can happen is lung cancer, and that's from long term and nearly constant use.
And also cause people mix it with tobacco.

Alright, so I imagine most of the americans here who watch a modicum of TV have seen the "I am my anti-drug" commercial, with the teenagers looking at the supermarket scanner and the overt monolouge about how they don't smoke pot and they're model citizens and they've saved cats and entire orphanages from burning buildings because they don't do drugs. I wanna know what dipshit felt it was a good idea to have the image be of a guy looking into a supermarket scanner. EVERY stoner I know does that, ALL THE TIME.
Just to get back on track. This, like many presumably anti-drug ads, is really an ad for something else. Other examples are: What kind of parents with a todler has a pool without a fence? What kind of parents leave loaded guns in their desk drawers with young teenage kids? (Favorite line from that, "If your parents get divorced, who gets the fish?").

This one? Join the mass, avoid definition outside the norm, become generic, scanable. One of us. One of us.

My brain on drugs makes me want eggs.

Junk food destroys your body too, but not nearly as fast. Besides, you may claim to be more alert when you are high, but that sure isn't the case for the majority of people. If drugs were legal, I don't care what anyone says about things that are legal being less desirable, I think that everything in this society would be awful. Crime would be up, because of course drugs impair judgement, and the life expectancy would probably go way down. In my opinion anyone who takes and gets addicted to drugs is a moron.
I agree that letting yourself get addicted is weak but thats why we need more treatment for addicts insted of more jail cells. Crime would fall tremendously if drugs were legal cause all the crimes and violence associated with drugs being ILLEGAL would all disappear overnite and all the innocent victims of drug prohibition can be freed from jail saving taxpayers billions of dollars nationwide and who cares about life expectency? your quality of life is far more important then the lenght of it

Life expectancy in the Netherlands is "higher" :D then in the US.
LOL

those commercials are so retarded. i know plenty of stoners and none of them are anything like what are portrayed on them. i don't know a single stoner who is 30 and living in their parent's basement, nor do i know someone who skips out on their responsabilities or schoolwork to get stoned, hell, i know a girl who gets stoned for the purpose of writing better essays.
most of the stoners I know too are A students and if anyone is 30 and still living in their parents basement its prolly just cause they WANT to or anyone of a million reasons--theres no scientific link between pot smoking and people living in basements :rolleyes:

I know a couple of 30 year old stoners. But they don't live in their parents basement. They have their own room. Since their folks don't have a basement.

you do realsie that smoking pot on occasion does fuck all for your health, right? the only thing that can happen is lung cancer, and that's from long term and nearly constant use. so not as quickly as junk food and mcdonald's can lead to obesity.
as for harder drugs, they can be more harmful.



pot heightens the senses. i think it's something that happens with most, if not all users. also, if you've ever been out in the dark and stoned, you'll know that the slightest noise or figure walking along a dark path is enough to snap you right the hell out of your mellow state...



if i recall, in the netherlands, none of these things have happened.

and aside from that: marijuana is as addictive as this message board. perhaps less so... depending on which you like more i suppose. at any rate, it's not physically addictive at all. there's no real reason for pot to be illegal except the usefullness of hemp.good points and are those BS anti-drug ads gonna say that playing NS makes people live in their basements at 30?

With some of the friends people have, they'd be labelled "loser" for not taking drugs. I like the commericials that talk about helping your friend stop using drugs, where they show one kid watching their friend drown or the newest one where a kid crashes his bike in the street and a truck is coming around the corner.
those ads may be entertaining but they also have zero to do with reality

I know a couple of 30 year old stoners. But they don't live in their parents basement. They have their own room. Since their folks don't have a basement.
it wouldnt matter if they were living in tents or a mansion--theres no linkage anyway-its just more emotionally charged fear tactics of anti-drug bigots

Alcohol is my anti-drug. When I get trashed, I don't feel the need to get high. Hell, I don't feel anything. That's why alcohol is such a good anti-drug!

firstly, no, alcohol is a drug, just one that the government has decided doesnt do enough damage, or more likely makes them too much tax revenue and is too large a part of the economy.

Secondly, smoking anyhting still produces hot gas which gives you emphaceama. Every stoner I know overlooks this. Its not because they smoke weed, its because they dont think for themselves.

*eats a cookie*

Im not saying I disagree with pot though, I can fairly say it does less than alcohol to your behave, discourages rowdiness and can be eaten nicely.

Having worked in a 24 hour shop i can say id rather deal with 2 stoners with the munchies than a drunk who MUST HAVE BOOZE even though its after licensing hours and wont go through the till...

Infact I belive it shoudl legalised, taxed heavily at first to keep use from balooning, keeping prices high and gradually prices could be brought down.

As it would become legal, big comapnies could grow it and outcompete the criminals who funded organised crime with it.

Proper education onto the effects could be funded by the tax.

Finnally, no add will change people's opinions, people often do drugs to live extremely, but I cans till say the biggest kick I get isfrom hanging round with my friends.

those ads may be entertaining but they also have zero to do with reality

Not necessarily. If one of my friends got mixed up with the wrong people, which unfortunately they in RL are actually starting to do, and started doing pot or any other kind of drugs, I would try to convince them they shouldn't do that. If they didn't stop and didn't want help, that would be the end of the friendship. But I wouldn't give up on a friend easily, I would tell their parents what they were doing if I had to, even if they hated me for it later. I hope no one I know ever does drugs because I believe that is one of the stupidest things you could do to yourself.

pot heightens the senses. i think it's something that happens with most, if not all users. also, if you've ever been out in the dark and stoned, you'll know that the slightest noise or figure walking along a dark path is enough to snap you right the hell out of your mellow state...



Why does everything have to be so loud?

I agree with most of what you are saying bar the bit about health damage, but who has to smoke it? Admitantly cookie mix doesnt go as far as rolling papers for your money, but its better, and pot has a really nice taste.