Anti-Drug commercials?

Question

I can't help but think that these anti-drug commercials are not only stupid in the way it is presented but it is focusing on the wrong thing. Instead of targeting drugs like cocaine and crack, meth or heroin, they focus only on pot. Kids sit around, watch these commercials and laugh at them, they don't do a thing to prevent drug use. It focuses on a physically non-addictive substance and ignore the true killers out there.

It is argued that pot is a gateway drug, but no more then alcohol or cigarettes and I can't think of one person that tried a harder drug because they tried pot. I have known many people that tried pot and never touched another drug in their life, as well as people who never tried pot and shoved enoguh coke up their nose to build a mountain.

Do you think these commercials are focusing on the wrong issue? Do you think they should be discussing a stronger topic and why do you think they don't focus on the real killers?

Bethany, you are one of the few who was influenced positively by those commercials but you also must have had another good influence in your life giving you good advice and the commercials was nothing more then a support for that. I applaud you for not doing drugs. I don't know how old you are, but remember when you are at the bar having that drink, it is a much more addictive and damaging drug then pot could ever be, if you do go to the bar.

Answer 1

Well I am a recovering drug addict myself, and I happen to agree with you. I do think that they focus on the wrong drugs, and portray things the wrong way. I think also that pot should be made legal again, with age restrictions, but that's beside the point.

I have seen few commercials about crystal meth (which was the drug that I used), but they are stupid. Have you seen the one with Henry Rollins where he revs an engine up full blast....I hate that one, because all I think is why are you having a 'Roid Head' tell me not to do speed....huh.

I think an effective idea, would be to gather some addicts, (using and not) and have them explain a few things.... like show their teeth....explain how yeah the drug makes you feel great for twenty min, but the you take forever to recover. Show these kids a day in the life of a junkie, rather have someone who doesn't know say anything.

And to those who have never done drugs, but are considering trying them, I suggest not...they aren't all they are cracked up to be, I wish I never had.

Answer 2

Realy....

Crystal meth is !00% adictive in even the smallest doses....

and can kill some one in a single dose of it.... o.o


pot isn't adictive... had no long term helth afects... and the only way you can get killed taking it is if you try and do something stupid like get compleatly baked and go out and try and drive on the highway


jeee i wonder what we should spend millions of dollors tring to root out and end.... meth use or pot use....

your better of getting high than you are getting drunk... it's the most harmless recreational drug there is.... yet they are coming down on it like it's the deadlest...

I would focus on the real problems.... the stuff that is highly adictive and will out right kill you or at the least distroy your life....


As far as it being a gateway drug... I realy don't see that.... from what i've learned through a pothead friend or two is that most people selling pot... thats all they sell so they don't get acess to other drugs usaly.

I mean I don't know.... I don't do drugs but i kinda figure you have to know some one that sells something..... Hope you can't just go wondering down the street and find some one....... If you can they deffently need to crack down harder on those drugs.

Answer 3

I completely disagree. In the prime of my "at risk" years for drugs the "truth" ads were running strong. I loved them. I ripped their ads out of my magazines and everything. When the "my anti-drug" ads started coming out during the last year or so of my high school career I liked them too. I suppose it just really depends on which side of the fence you're on....and if you're already doing drugs those commercials probably aren't going to get you to stop. But they may keep some kids from starting.

To answer your questions specifically:

Wrong issue? No. I think they're right on. Cigarettes are technically the first gateway drug. That is typically followed up by pot and then other drugs. Catch it in the begining and you'll have less "major" drugs to deal with later.

Stronger topic? Not necessary. They're working more at prevention than getting current users off drugs (that takes a lot more than commercials)

Why aren't they focusing on the real killers? Coke? Meth? Crank? etc? As I said above they're trying to stop things before it gets too deep. Aside from that although we have a responsibility to inform the public, parents have a job too. Between parents, the commercials and (hopefully) education in school kids should be able to keep clean.

Answer 4

Too comical, what they like are the anti drug classified ads and the classified ads approximately decrease than the impact of alcohol making use of that they teach in foreign places countries, they are photograph and all the way down to the ingredient and that they're going to SCARE THE P*** out of you.

Answer 5

I completely agree with you. I am one of those people that smoke, but I don't even drink alcohol. There are much worse things out there that kids can easily get their hands on.

Answer 6

The one commercial almost says its safer to sit at home and smoke weed then go out and not smoke weed...

Answer 7

RIGHT ON! i totally agree with you. you rock.