Commericials-anti pot

HENRYINDIVIDEO@WEBTV.NET (HENRY) 2005-06-22 15:19:17

POTOk, I can't hold back any longer! How STUPID are those new
"anti-pot" commercials?
"It's more harmful than we all think."
Please! My ass it is!!!! And the sad part is, people are SO easily
lead! They'll believe anything if it's explained to them the right
way. In case you don't know what I'm talking about, let me tell you
about these commercials.
Commercial Number One: Pot causes accidental shootings.
Two boys are sitting in a room. One boy is in a leather arm chair
behind a large desk. A wall of books are behind him. Another boy
is sitting diagonal him with a bong. The room is full smoke, and both
boys are speaking slowly and about nothing in particular. Then the
boy behind the desk picks up a gun and says, 'hey, look at this, it's my
father's gun.' And his friend asks, 'is it loaded?' The first boy
responds, 'no,' and lazily points the barrel at his friend. The gun
goes off, everything fades to black, and a voice tells us that pot
'distorts our sense of reality.'
Scary, huh? That kid was so high he didn't even realize how dangerous
a weapon a gun is.
But... wait a minute. What was a gun doing there in the first
place? Just laying around where anybody could pick it up, instead of
locked up somewhere. And... wait just one second longer. What the
FUCK was it doing loaded? What kind of idiot leaves a loaded gun
lying around? And, while we're at it, let's continue this little
critique. Those kids appeared to be smoking in a study. A study
clouded with smoke. Now, I'm no expert on smoke, but I'd say a smell
like that would linger. So, either these boys are REALLY stupid (as
stupid as the father who left a loaded gun on his desk and seemingly
forgot about it) or they're not afraid of getting caught. Why
wouldn't they be afraid of getting caught? Either their parents are
ok with it, or, more likely, these parents pay so little attention to
their kids that they'd never even notice. So, what's the real lesson
this commercial teaches us? That parental neglect is bad. And,
possibly, that some people just shouldn't have children, because it
you're stupid enough to leave a loaded gun on your desk, you're probably
stupid enough to hand a grenade to your toddler and say "Hold this while
daddy gets a beer! Don't pull that pin, kay junior?"
Commercial Number Two: Pot causes rape.
So, in this one we're at a party. The kids appear to be middle school
aged. The house is buzzing with conversation, and we're looking at a
couch where a boy and a girl are sitting. The girl's smoking a bowl,
and each time the door bell rings she gets up to get the door. Each
time she sits down again she's a little more high. Eventually, she
sits down and looks like she's ready to fall asleep. The boy on the
couch notices this, and puts his hand down her shirt. As the picture
fades to black we hear her weakly say "no.." Then the voice from the
beyond tells us that that pot impairs our decision making abilities.
Well. This one is different, isn't it? There's no gun involved.
This is just two kids at a party, something that could really happen.
In fact, rapes at parties happen all the time. This commercial is
much scarier.
Except... well.. where are that girl's parents? She's obviously the
hostess, and she appears to be under the age of 15. When I was 15 I
wasn't allowed to kick my parents out for a party. But maybe they
went out for the evening, or the weekend. So, she's a good girl, she
gets peer pressured into having a party her parents don't know about,
she decides to smoke a little weed. Ok. So far, this commercial
makes sense. And so far, this commercial seems harmless. The bad
stuff starts happening when that boy sticks his hand down the girl's
shirt. Since the boy hasn't been shown smoking, we're going to assume
that it wasn't the pot that caused him to be overtaken by hormones and
lose his sense of moral judgement. We're going to assume that he's
just a bad egg to begin with. That simplifies things.
First of all, she made her decision. She said no. Lots of women
who aren't high say no and get raped anyway. So I don't think that
has anything to do with it. She has enough state of mind to say no,
but she says it so weakly that we're left to assume she cannot defend
herself. My first thought is, doesn't she have any friends at this
party? Friends who would protect her? Apparently not. My second
thought is, even if she didn't have friends, is everyone going to stand
around and watch her get molested? It's happened before, so maybe.
Then my thoughts drift to the fact that it is VERY unlikely pot would
make her so out of it that she would let herself get raped. Pot's
just not that kind of drug, unless you're especially susceptible to it,
and I doubt many people are. The problem with this commercial is that
it's unrealistic. Getting so high that a threat to your person
doesn't snap you out of it is EXTREMELY difficult with pot.
There is a drug out there that will do that to you mess you up so bad
you won't be able to defend yourself against rape. Depending on how
much of this drug you intake, you may not realize your being raped.
When you wake up the next day, you may not even remember it happened.
This drug is called alcohol, and it's widely accepted, popular, even
consumed at formal dinners by our president.
Commercial Number Three: Pot causes little girls to get hit by cars.
This one has to be the best. A car full of men are at a drive
through. Smoke pours out the window. Someone says "may I take your
order" and the driver responds with something stupid. This is
repeated ("May I take your order" "Got any air?") until the driver
realizes he has no money. One of his passengers says go, go, go!
And they haul ass out of the drive through. Right into a little girl
on a pink bike. A voice from the deep tells us that pot shows our
reaction time.
This one sucks. All that little girl was doing was minding her own
business. In the above two examples, the victims were smoking. In
this commercial, she's completely innocent. Are you scared yet?
Because the government wants you to be.
Let's look at this a little more in depth. The real flaw in this
commercial is this: Where did that little girl come from in the first
place? To my best knowledge, they don't put fast food restaurants in
residential sections. So this little girl was riding her bike on a
commercial street without parental supervision. That say something
about her parents, doesn't it? ("Hey, have you seen little Molly
today?" "Yeah, she went out to play on the frozen lake about an hour
ago.") Also... don't you think the same thing could have happened to
a perfectly sober SUV driver on a cell phone? Think about it. He's
late for a meeting, so he gets a quick bite to eat. He's talking with
someone, so he's distracted. He hits the gas to go and thump! He
never saw her, because he never looked. Maybe he was changing his CD
or putting his soda in a cup holder. Maybe she was just so little he
didn't see her over the hood of his car. Either way, he hit her, but
not because he was high.
People!
I'm begging you! Think before you swallow propaganda! Analyze
what you see and hear. Put the pieces together and see if they really
make sense. Question things. People never question anymore.
They just swallow whole, like a snake, not even tasting what goes
down. I know plenty of people who spend time criticizing their own
bodies, other people's lifestyles, their friend's mates, even the TV
network's decision to use air time for the president's speeches. But
somehow they'll see an anti-pot commercial, and they won't even think to
question. There's a difference between being critical and being
discerning. Most people can do the former, but it's the latter that's
important.
Thank you for reading my rant.

commericials-anti pot