What's with these stupid anti-drug commercials?

Question

Like why don't they show the graves of innocent people drug cartels have killed? That might actually curb drug habits.

Answer 1

Why don't they admit that we wouldn't have people killed if it were legal and regulated?

Oh, ya...its propaganda.

Prohibition is at fault. People aren't getting shot over alcohol deals anymore. Alcohol is a very dangerous substance but we realized prohibition was worse, prohibition always fails, what we have today is about 1000x worse its just been going on so long nobody can picture a peaceful alternative to the failed policy of today.

Answer 2

We should probably legalize marijuana and allow people to grow it in pots or backyard gardens, if they want to do so. From all that I have read, it is not harmful, may even be helpful, and is non-addictive. However, driving under its influence should be the same as with alcohol.

Other drugs are more harmful to the human body and are addictive. I have to admit I am just not wise enough to know the effects of legalizing these drugs. If addicts could get the drugs at Treatment Centers, perhaps it would cut down on street crime and take the profits away from the gang leaders and drug cartels. But opening up on all drugs for all people, so they could purchase them freely for recreational purposes might end in chaos and even more addiction.

I do think we need more affordable Rehab facilities. They would probably be cheaper than a prison sentence for drug use and might even be successful.

The War on Drugs is like the War in Iraq....an expensive failure. Property confiscation alone is a disaster, with cities like Detroit at one time reporting a million bucks in missing funds. This so-called "War" is unsupervised and no one really knows where the money goes.

Answer 3

I would legalize drugs, and make sure that the schools provided an honest drug education program. This would eliminate a great deal of crime, and the price of drugs would go down substantially. We can tax them like cigarettes and use the money to provide more education and free drug treatment to those on drugs who want to quit.

More young people would refuse to use drugs because they would be fully informed of the dangers and know that they are not being fed lies and propaganda. Those who use drugs might at least make a better choice and use drugs that are less dangerous (like pot as opposed to crack, meth, and ecstasy). Drugs would also be regulated so that people don't get a "bad batch" and die. Drug addicts would be less likely to steal to get money, since the prices would be cheaper.

The police wouldn't be wasting all their time going after drug users, and they wouldn't be taking up most of the jail space. The police would then have more time to go after the real criminals, and those who get caught would get longer sentences because the jails would not be crowded.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Or actually explaining how drugs can give you cancer or deteriorate your body's organs and functions. They never give good reasons to not use them, it's always the same - trying to out-do the coolness of drugs by making not doing them cool.

They need to stop with the "Drugs aren't cool" BS and lay out more "Drugs will destroy your brain cells and make you an Alzheimer's patient." Kids don't listen to what is cool from commercials - they listen to what is cool from their friends. It's always been this way. I wish their anti-drug campaigns could be a little more smart.

Answer 6

The anti-drug laws and the anti-drug campaign have nothing to do with curbing drug use. It is a cover to take away your rights (to privacy, among others), and a cover for military intervention in other countries because of a crop we (say we) don't want -- as if that gives us the right to go into another country and destroy their crop. Yet, we demand, under the bearly-hidden and thus always-looming military threat of US diplomacy, that they import a crop in much greater quantity, that they really don't want, that's a much bigger killer: American Tobacco. Do they thus have the same right, the right to destroy a crop they don't like, and napalm and fire-bomb or our tobacco farms in the Carolinas and elsewhere? If they don't then we don't. Why do they grow this crop? Anser: it's very profitable. Also, the US uses taxpayer subsidies to dump under-priced corn on their market, undercutting the living wage of their corn farmers. Under these and other similar conditions, any Central American Harvard Business School graduate farmer would do the same thing and plant coca, given its profit potential.
For many, many years, the CIA has been shown to have been running guns into, and drugs out of, the central Asian and Central and Southern American countries whose climate and terrain allow the source of these drugs to grow, and whose 'leaders' are easily swayed by promises of power and bribes, whose officer class become beholden to their US military trainers for financial and other support, and thus more cooperative in the event of a CIA-directed coup against a leader who dares put the rights of his own people before the rights of US investers. And let's not forget the money in the millions in cash that gets laundered through liquidity-starved Wall Street bankers. The so-called Drug War is functional to the rich and powerful jealous of that power and privilege, and so while we will continue to hear the corporate press parrot the party line, the powerful few who benefit from it will see to it that this is a war we will never 'win', but will continue to invest in for decades, providing careers for the military, profits for Pentagon contractors, and an acceptable cover story for covert CIA/Executive operations to use another country's military to overthrow a popular (to the people who voted for him, obviously not for the foreign investers who want to exploit the country's resources) leader.
The so-called 'drug cartels' and 'drug lords' are CIA creations, designed to have maximum effect on the real enemy of the US ruling class: the domestic population (you and me). It's is we who have to be convinced that someone like Manuel Noreiga for example, once a US favorite and CIA asset, is a monster, and that not only is it our right, but also our duty to destroy such people, and overthrow such oppressive regimes. And time after time, we fall for it. (And time after time, the so-called 'liberal press' refuses to ask the hard questions, or give any history or analysis, or support any peace movement, or labor's side in any strike or walkout. It's not a 'Free Press', and given its overwhelming use of government press releases other 'mainstream' and government-approved sources, it's empirically not 'liberal'.).
Finally, the 'Drug War' is a cover for the transferrence of wealth from the poor to the rich, and a cover for incarcerating those who cannot hide their drug use behind prescriptions or wealth. The crime rate has been goinig down for years, yet we hear nothing from the 'liberal press'. Prisons-for-profit are being built, and they need customers. So if you are without access to high-priced lawyers and people with influence, your property will be confiscated by the State, and you will be put into the labor camps we euphemistically call prisons, to make blue-jeans for export profits for Prison Blues or some other private manufaturer. In the meantime, it provides the middle-class with entertainment in the form of 'Cops" and other such exploit-the-poor side-shows.
"Governments lie, and nothing they say should be believed." I.F. Stone

Answer 7

We think that prohibiting drugs is bad, but allowing people to commit mass suicide from drug overdoses, and allowing even more vehicular and nonvehicular accidents relating to drug abuse is much, much worse.

That is like legalizing car bombs. What would we be thinking if all drugs were to become legal? Mass death results from this nonsense.

We have to fight drugs, but we haven't done it right.
Court mandated rehab and community service, followed by border/port security, followed by stiffer diplomatic penalties to countries sponsoring the drug trade, would all help.

Jail should be reserved for the drug traffickers, not the addicts.

Answer 8

or just be honest.
some drugs aren't very harmful and would be fine if they were sold in stores under FDA guidelines.

its the cartels that make it dangerous, I vote we take away their means of money.

Answer 9

They are hopeful for the effects of advertising work for products.

It won't work here. It hasn't worked. They need to go deeper.

Answer 10

well think about.........
your here, talking about the anti-drug commericials, thats exactly what they want. for people to talk about it. it gets the messege out there