Thursday, February 26, 2009

Typical, Hilarious, Supposedly "Anti" Drug Commercial


Besides being extremely hilarious, this supposedly "anti" drug commercial from the eighties is a great example of usual American "war on drug" culture. Its like that D.A.R.E. program we all went through when we were little kids in school, and the police officer would come in the room with a suitcase full of drugs, and show us what they looked like, what the street name was, what they did to you, how much they cost approximately, and whether or not they could likely be found in the surrounding area. Now, if that isn't an advertisement to do drugs, I don't know what is. Couple this irony with the fact that, at this point, approximately 10% of young people are on prescribed psychotropic drugs, mostly Adderoll, which is like really good cocaine which lasts seven times as long, and in pill form, hence, doesn't make your nose bleed. I've had it as an adult, and I can't imagine what it would do to an eight year old body, especially regularly, over a sustained period of time.

Take this video. They tell you that about one third of Americans do cocaine, from every walk of life, and then that wanker says that it feels like a sexual climax "times 100." Then they tell you that laboratory rats would rather have cocaine than food or water. Sounds pretty great, right? Like a mysterious, wonder substance?

What they don't tell you is that it makes you stand around the table or kitchen counter where the bag is for hours, with people you probably can't stand, talking about stupid shit you're supposedly going to do to save the world the next morning, and that once its all gone you have to get more, that you grind your teeth and develop odd, anti-social ticks, that once you fall asleep, you wake up the next morning with a marble-sized booger in your nose, that you will have to sniff for two weeks to keep snot from falling out of your nose, and that your nose will bleed randomly for said time, that it will shrink your penis and suck all of your money out of the bank. But they don't tell you that in the video. They just say how great it is, and then insinuate that it's bad, vaguely, in some kind of wishy-washy, Peter Pan way.

Then they throw you in jail for trying it. Great system.

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