Anti-Marijuana Ad Targets Video Game Players

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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.