Mmm, okay, yeah, we at the offices of I, Asshole are all better now.
After staying up for too many hours and rocket-vomiting until Jurassic-era strata was unearthed from the bottom of my stomach, I have made almost a full recovery.
Tried to convince Mr. Husband to bring in a largish rock from the backyard to brain me with, but he wouldn’t do it, much to my enemies’ dismay.
In Other News
I am so full of seething hate for the Partnership for a Drug-free America.
In case you haven’t seen it, the newest spot I know of is that nasty one with the couple looking at the pregnancy test which reads positive, and the voice-over is saying, “They are about to have a new addition to their family.” And it pans to the cutey little WB-looking girl who can’t have possibly started her period because her skin is still like a glorious lake of pure milk. (Perhaps her parents got her one of those weirdy skin-clearing shots that are supposed to cause birth defects or something?)
I digress. Anyway, it shows Felicity’s little sister and the voice-over says, “they (referring to the couple) are about to become the youngest grandparents in the neighborhood.”
The commercial concludes by telling us that marijuana can impair your judgement. That’s true. If I was stoned when I was watching that commercial, I probably would’ve smashed my television.
Seriously, this is a weak, irresponsible viewpoint that shows how weak and stupid anti-marijuana crusading actually is. This commercial can be filed with those other recent ones, like the ones with the kids who are hitting a bong and then shoot each other, and the girl who gets raped at a party because she was smoking pot.
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Amen amen amen…!!!!!!
I did enjoy “Boondocks” the other day talking about not buying dugs or paying taxes! Haaaa! I did make me laugh so.
We have legalized pot here in Canada (for medicinal use), but all that means is that the doctor can write a legal prescription for it…they still have to get it the illegal way.
And you’re right about the ads…yes the pot can impair your judgement, but so can hormones…lots of little girlies get pregnant without the ‘help’ of drugs.
You can’t talk sense to these people.
My dad was a speed freak. IV drug user. Died of AIDS. Consequently I wouldn’t even take asprin for years (though I did engage in some perfectly legal binge drinking until I gave myself alcohol poisoning. Twice.) Then, when I was about twenty-six, I was in my third year of college in fucking Bellingham, I got so bored I started smoking pot. Dropped acid. My first quarter I had a 3.75 GPA. After three quarters of smoking dope, pounding crosstops by the handful and using shots of 151 to take the edge off, my GPA was… anyone, anyone? That’s right. My GPA got better every quarter. The more I used the better I did, until I had a perfect 4.0 in my last quarter at Western.
When I left Bellingham and went back to Seattle to finish my degree– which is to say, when I went back to a town where there was actually some stuff to do –I quit using without a backward glance.
Now.
I ask you.
Where’s MY motherfucking commercial?
Oops. Misspelled “aspirin”.
See, that wouldna happened if I’d been fucked up.
Testify!
These commercials are so maddening, so tenuously connected to reality, so desperately reaching for bad things to say about marijuana that it’s hard to believe that anyone would buy them. What a freaking waste of our money.
Villifying pot will only make people turn a deaf ear to the message. Really, they ought to be, like you said, pointing out that it’s who you hang out with and not what you do that really is the source of the most trouble. And just about everyone will try it at some point. Telling people how bad it is only makes it (a) more glamorous or (b) more guilt-inducing, and our Judeo-Christian guilt complex is destroying our great nation (however great it may or may not be). And people get over guilt, then find out they know nothing about whatever it is they’re ingesting because the PSAs were so fucking condescending that no one paid much attention to them.
Glad you’re feeling better, mate.
I second that thought, sister!
Brilliant–the commercials are really commercials against the war on drugs!
The question is: Since about 98% of people under 35 think that pot should be legal…In fact, tons of people over 35–and almost no one really believes marijuana is any kind of threat to anyone–why is it illegal?
Hate to be a conspiracy theorist but–think about who goes to jail for it.
I do think we need public service announcements telling us to watch out for other people. “Stay Away From Crazy Idiots.” Um…couldn’t the girl have used a little education?
Joshua–you are SO RIGHT! Drugs also improved my GPA…dramatically. Not only that but I planned out my whole academic future while tripping on acid and hey–I went through with it. If I never took drugs, I’d be working as a cashier at J.C. Penny’s right now.
“Sometimes Winners Do Take Drugs” (I stole that from the Onion by the way.)
Oh damn–I have to mention another one.
There is this one where these kids get arrested and then the commercial says: “See, you thought marijuana was harmless.”
What?!?
HAW! You guys are so funny! Thanks, Joahua. I knew I could count on you for a good anecdote.
i could use some drugs right now.
sniffle.
ugh.
I’m often shocked by the stupidity of things I see on TV but those anti-marijuana ads are so deceitful and misinformative, they make me scream, yell and throw things at my TV in rage!! And I’ve even wondered, if marijuana producers in countries where it *is* a legally sold substance could [under NAFTA for example] *sue* the freakin’ “Partnership for a Drug-free America” bastards for loss of $$ due to their false and defamatory statements!! Aha! Put that in yer crypto-fascist neo-globalist pipe and smoke it Bush! Bwahahahaa!
I’m so against smoking a fat blunt, it’s crazy. Yeah, right. schnoogens.
It’s decriminilised here, so it’s no big thing for people to smoke pot. I think as a result, less people smoke it. I smoked a tonne in my younger days, but now not so much. It’s sort of seen as a thing that kids do. Something you grow out of. Older people tend to spark one up just as a sort of ‘remember this’ kind of thing. – Like wearing disco boots or getting a perm.
Anyway, pot’s expensive, and everyone should smoke catnip instead. mmm… nip…
Now that’s an ad.
My friends and I are really fond of the ad where the kids are getting stoned and one of them picks up a gun. Are you fucking kidding me with this shit?
I think the most irresponsible thing I ever did stoned was spend all of my available cash on Taco Bell food.
Ah. The old days.
A lot more girls get knocked up because of Alcohol, but freaking beer and cigarette companies help fund the Partnership for a drug free America. Pathetic.