Why Anti Drug Campaigns are Failures.
I just saw a commercial for www.abovetheinfluence.com where some kid was hanging out in a diner with his cool friends and they decided to go "get twisted." Now, in an ideal world you would be allowed to "get twisted" in a diner, but we live in one of the squarest countries in the world (according to the 2010 Murder Rebel Radio Institute's World Squareness Index) so we have to account for that. So this guy has 2 choices, go get twisted or pay his bill and go home. I assume that you know what I will do, but I put some pretty decieving tags on these things so I will tell you. I would run out on the bill and rob those guys so that I could do all of the drugs myself, but for our more moderate fans we will just say that the right answer is obviously get twisted. Against all common sense, this guy just says that he is going home and asks for his check. The guy at the diner tells him that it is on the house.
This commercial shows why I never bought in to anti-drug campaigns. The reward for not doing drugs was a free diner meal and the approval of some old guy that works at a fucking diner. This is my problem with society at this point in my life. The government thinks that it can somehow convince us that the Ad Council is much cooler than Rich, the guy on a motorcycle that sells pinner joints for 3 dollars. What kind of a competition is that? You could either drive an Audi and wear a business suit, or drive a street legal dirtbike and wear no shirt. I'll take the freedom and honor of low level drug dealer anyday over Washington lobbyist.
Those fucking commercials even look like the government. Those teenagers are way to excited by not doing something. I guess that is part of it, drugs make the system look rediculous, they can't have young people seeing that we pay bankers millions of dollars a year to know how to scam a system that they made up. That would make them look at suits and say "I don't think we need these." Drugs are an experience, sometimes a positive experience in that they feel really good. Sometimes a bad experience like withdrawls or bad trips, but they aren't something that I think we need to be excitedly ignorant about. Why not accurately inform kids about them? The truth about drugs is that some of us enjoy them and some of us don't. Just like video games, cigarettes, television,and literature they are a thing. A thing that exists, and yet another thing that our dishonest values and morality refuse to allow us to address honestly.
