Anti-Marijuana Ad Targets Video Game Players

[djnemo65]

War On Drugs: US Drug Czar Targets Gaming Skills In Anti-Pot Ads

OK, I haven't really smoked pot in a few years, mostly because I don't want to have anything in common with hippies, but I had to comment on this. The government, in a continued attempt to get the attention of today's coach potato youth, is advertising that smoking pot can impede your video game skills. Um, let me just say that this has NOT been my experience.

If you want to effectively deter pot smoking, tell the truth. Say that it causes you to eat unhealthy foods like poptarts, or watch cartoons well into your twenties, or hang out with an awkward posse of hippies and fake suburban gangstas, or drive around for hours listening to trance music, or, you know, spend all your time playing video games when you could be like reading or studying.

But pot is like video game steroids. It seriously makes you way better. I call ridiculous on this.

[70Chip]

Originally Posted by djnemo65

War On Drugs: US Drug Czar Targets Gaming Skills In Anti-Pot Ads

OK, I haven't really smoked pot in a few years, mostly because I don't want to have anything in common with hippies, but I had to comment on this. The government, in a continued attempt to get the attention of today's coach potato youth, is advertising that smoking pot can impede your video game skills. Um, let me just say that this has NOT been my experience.

If you want to effectively deter pot smoking, tell the truth. Say that it causes you to eat unhealthy foods like poptarts, or watch cartoons well into your twenties, or hang out with an awkward posse of hippies and fake suburban gangstas, or drive around for hours listening to trance music, or, you know, spend all your time playing video games when you could be like reading or studying.

But pot is like video game steroids. It seriously makes you way better. I call ridiculous on this.

Yeah. I had a roommate at college and he use to get like, you know, the big ziplock bags of weed. The ones your mother puts a spiral sliced ham into or something and no one could beat this guy at any video game. In the very early Madden game on Sega Genesis, he would sack your QB before you even knew the ball had been snapped. On Nintendo, I never saw him lose in RBI baseball and he played half the school. And, he could finish Contra without the 30 men cheat code.

[ArtMonkDrillz]

Obviously they've never seen the movie Grandma's Boy.

[dmek25]

Originally Posted by ArtMonkDrillz

Obviously they've never seen the movie Grandma's Boy.

for anyone that hasn't seen it, its a must

[Trample the Elderly]

Marijuana will neve be legalized. The alcohol and cigarette industries don't want any competition from a substance you can grow in your back yard and the government can't tax it.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Trample the Elderly

Marijuana will neve be legalized. The alcohol and cigarette industries don't want any competition from a substance you can grow in your back yard and the government can't tax it.

Picture this

Legalize it, it can then be mass produced and they can tax the hell out of it.

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Picture this

Legalize it, it can then be mass produced and they can tax the hell out of it.

I agree Matty. You could grow your own tobacco but who really does? Plus most pot smokers are pretty lazy (shocker) and I could see them just walking down to the 7-11 to get a pack instead of actually taking the time to grow it. Also if you grow it inside for the casual user it is pretty expensive considering the lights and all that stuff.

Plus, you would be able to control who actual gets it. I rather have a clerk sell it to people and checking IDs, instead of some slim ball on the corner who is selling to kids. Did any one see Last House on the Left?

I personally don't smoke and never have ( I have never been able to inhale any smoke, I cough like crazy) but it is just so dum how much money we spend on trying to stop this drug and what we could be getting from this drug, tax dollars.

There is also still all the medical benefits of it.

[Trample the Elderly]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Picture this

Legalize it, it can then be mass produced and they can tax the hell out of it.

Back in my youth I grew pot. It is easier than Tobacco and costs next to nothing. With a hand full of Schwag seeds I can grow about a lb to 2 lbs of high quality Mary Jane. That's without effort. With the same amount of care that I give my tomatoes and twice the amount of Canadian seed bank seeds, I can grow about 10 lbs of primo. This is all without lights.

I can also grow a room full of mushrooms with about five spore prints.

Trust me, you cannot tax pot. There are just too many people like me who can grow it. Tobacco takes a good soil rotation and a lot of land since it depletes all of the minerals from the earth. It also has to be dried and properly blended. I can grow pot in my ditch.

Disclaimer: I do not advocate the use of illegal narcotics or the sale of them. I've not used or grown any illegal substance in many years and do not suggest that anyone manufacture controlled substances for any purpose.

I've been in pleny of automobile accidents too and I wouldn't recommend them either.

[Dirtbag59]

Stopping people from smoking pot is the biggest waste of money for our government. I mean lets look at the facts

- The gangs police go after profit highly from pot sales
- It cost way to much money to incarcerate someone for smoking pot.
- It's technically less harmful then alcohol and on a user basis cigarettes (meaning the fact that you smoke less in comparison to cigarettes makes it better).

Still I'm with you DJNemo. Despite smoking it in the past I definitely think that it's among the stupidest drugs you can use.

Of course with every other moron playing with an online handle including the words like reefer, 420, smokes, stoner, etc in their screen name it's no wonder they choose to go after video game players. Ironically though ads targeted at getting people to quit a particular substance just makes them more likely to go out and use after seeing an ad even when they're trying to quit. At least thats what market research tells us, so bravo more government money down the drain.

[saden1]

I'm currently making love to Marry Jane and playing Madden 09. I'm going to watch Family guy later on while I munch on Honey Bunch cereal...good times...American Dream shit. :cool-smil

[MTK]

Legalize it and let's wipe out the debt!

[GMScud]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Legalize it and let's wipe out the debt!

That's what I'm screaming. Hell yes.

And yeah AMD, Grandma's Boy is great stuff.

[djnemo65]

Well, since the rudiments of a legalize drugs debate are taking form - unintentionally on my part I swear - let me direct everyone to an economist editorial from this week, which I think lays out the case for legalization pretty convincingly. How to stop the drug wars | The Economist

[MTK]

Originally Posted by djnemo65

Well, since the rudiments of a legalize drugs debate are taking form - unintentionally on my part I swear - let me direct everyone to an economist editorial from this week, which I think lays out the case for legalization pretty convincingly. How to stop the drug wars | The Economist

The war on drugs is clearly a colossal failure, the only thing it has succeeded at is wasting money and lives.

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

The war on drugs is clearly a colossal failure, the only thing it has succeeded at is wasting money and lives.

kinda hard to fight a war when you're not allowed to go after the manufacturers or wholesalers...

i mean, bust the kid on the street is great, but the guys pumping out the major narco product already got paid 6 links ago, so it doesn't dis-incentivize the production chain, only the local guy.