kids are still doin it... duh...
Adults still rape little children. Does that make it right? Should we like say Hey if you are going to rape a child use a condom first. Sure they aren't the same, but the ideas you are putting forth make them the same.
Drugs only control you if you're really that weak.
Well see, here is the thing...there a lot of people who are...really that weak.
I've dealt with addiction.
See statement above quote.
Drugs will never be controlled, never be stopped, and spending money on a commercial with a dog talking to a girl on how she shouldn't smoke weed isn't exactly convincing me that I shouldn't do drugs.
Dude, do you know what rhetoric is? That is basically what this commercial is. It's not supposed to make the viewer go "Oh Shucks I should stop doing drugs." it's something that they take in and they remember. It's a physcological ad, more than it is an informational. It's not about whats said so much as the impression that is left behind. And these commercials were not made for you. They were made for everyone so to say that because they don't affect you, they don't work at all is a complete waste of time.
I've seen a few with meth and harder drugs, those weren't horrible, but If they're going to try to scare kids clean then they still need to take that money and pay a meth addict and a crack head to run loose in every elementary school across America, it would be a better use than the current plan.
Where you on meth and/or crack when you wrote this?
Look...Here is the simple truth. These commercials work. Whether you are one of thoes people who go "OH MY MIND HASN'T BEEN CHANGED" or one of thoes people who take it in and consider it. They work. They've been satiscally proven to work. If they didn't, these comercials would have been ditched a long time ago. Trust me.
The point of these commercials aren't neccesarily to scare people. Ad agencies know people aren't stupid. They know that people aren't directly affected by these commercials. But they leave impressions. They see how pathetic or sad the lives of the drug users are on the commericials and they apply that to every day situations. It's a subliminal. And if you honest to *** think that we should stop spending money on these commericials then you are an idiot and you are only hurting people more.
Marijuana is one thing. But hard drugs...basically anything that invovles chemicals should not be encouraged. Infact I say we should fund for more talking dog commericials, because while there might be 1000 people who aren't affected by this commercial, there will be one who is. And that one person is better than 0. That one person means thats one less soul who has to go through the tortures of addiction. Please don't tell me you are against saving one person.
We shouldn't teach safe drug use. That is retarded. Think about it. That means that we promote the use of drugs so long as it's used safely. And honestly, there is no safe way to take in a drug. Weed maybe, but after that the rest is worthless. I can just picture a fith grade teacher showing students which veins are best for a quick high.
Here is how it works. If society as a whole takes a staunch negative approach stance towards drugs then maybe on 40% percent of ppl will do it. another 40 percent wont do it. the other 10 will be up in the air. They wont do it only because it's illegal and it has a negative light shed on it. But if u legalize stuff or take out the negative light on it...thoes 10 percent will automatically fold. So why would u lighten up(excuse pun)?
Drugs over all are bad. People take them to loose inhibitions/control. And while the majority may not, there is a great minority that might make a situation escalate if they are highed up. And when one person gets hurt because of something like Alcohol or Drugs, when one child looses a life, because his/her mom was irresponsible enough to drink while they were in the womb, when one friend dies because his weed was laced up, when one dad dies of kidney posioning, and when one girl dies of an overdose. Then you've got to realize, that maybe if we would take a harder stance on drugs...they wouldn't have died.
