Do you recall the last time you saw an anti-drug commercial besides one for marijuana? I can’t, and the chances are good that you can’t either. Unless a local group or state agency has placed a methamphetamine commercial in the local programming, the chances of seeing an ONDCP sponsored non-pot commercial is slim to nil. It supports the idea the Government has reared its money bearing head directly at pot. The War on Pot is a good description. In fact, all of the commercials on the government sponsored, Above the Influence website are all about Marijuana.
And the latest propaganda piece is called “Hurtâ€. It depicts burning spots on the neck and arms of a child bugging him throughout his normal day. I would have bet almost anything it was about Meth. But sure enough the “burning†is his contempt for his sister smoking pot. In the end, he walks in on her and her friends smoking, and the burn moves to his eyes. Unfortunately, lol, the ONDCP doesn’t promote on YouTube so I don’t have the video for you offhand. Take my word though; I’m sure you will see it on TV soon though. It is disturbing to think a talking dog, and misleading emotional statements are the best weapon to fight the so called war on drugs, when there are examples in every police stations mug shot lineup, of the ravages other drugs do to a person in a very small amount of time. I’m not condoning the fact people are being arrested for harsher drugs also. The depressing statistics of how many Americans are arrested for drugs like meth and heroin, and now prescription drugs included in there also, is prime proof that we need to improve treatment programs and put our money where it really counts, instead of just jail, and horrible anti-drug ads.
It is an incredible theory the ONDCP has come up with. Attack marijuana and the other drugs shall fall with it. First, you have to “defeat†pot, and second I guess it makes sense to attack the base of a pillar when you place marijuana as the base for that pillar of thinking as the lead “gateway†drug. Do they think if pot goes away the rest of the big bad world will also? The difference with marijuana is compassion, and understanding is mixed up with fear and a bullheadedness to resist change.
More studies in the past few weeks were released stating the health benefits of marijuana, and its active ingredients. Including news even if cancer cells are not killed, the ingredients of marijuana can weaken them enough for chemotherapy and other treatments to become more effective. We keep getting wowed.
- NORML Blog on Cancer and Cannabis:
http://blog.norml.org/2008/07/17/so-what-if-pot-can-cure-cancer-thats-no-reason-for-you-to-use-it/