Stupid anti-marijuana commercials

[Cloud9]

Can I just ask...

Ok, I do not smoke marijuana(I'm a classical voice major, I refuse to smoke anything EVER so I can pursue a career), though I have friends who do, which generally I don't have a problem with. They're very intelligent people, and very motivated, and to be honest, I see people abuse themselves much, much more using alchohol. But that's just to give you an idea of my connection with the subject matter, on to the actual point of my post...


Does anyone else find these "Marijuana...it's more harmful than we all thought" commercials to be entirely ridiculous and uninformed? I can't help but crack up everytime I see them.

So apparently smoking marijuana will cause you to support terrorism, shoot your friend(with his father's gun), cause a car accident, and get pregnant. Puuuuuuuuuhleeeeeeeeeeaze.

Support terrorism? Well, that may be very very very very far removedly true(although at NYU, which I belive is the Number 2 pot college in the country, weed is obtainted almost if not entirely from home grown student sources.), however there are plenty of illegal substances that do that in an exponentially larger way.

Shoot your friend? oh come ON, that's just ridiculous, there is no legitimate connection at all. There's a better way to prevent a situation like that, but it involves stricter gun control, and entirely different issue...

Cause a car accident? Hmmm...I think people are confusing smoking up with getting drunk. I don't encourage people to smoke and drive of course, my point is that alchohol is legal and it's a bigger cause of road accidents.

GET PREGNANT???? That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. Marijuana, while it does alter someone's mindset, does not have a significant(does it have ANY???) link with teenage pregnancy. Once again, I point you to alchohol, a readily available substance for people everywhere.


Anyways, I'm not necessarily opposed to preventing the use of marijuana, although I think it would be a much wiser and more profitable decision for the government to legalize and strictly regulate it(i.e. tax the crap out of it like cigarettes in NY). But at least if you ARE going to campaign against it, come up with better and less corny ads! If I were a teen watching these ads I'd actually prolly be incited to try marijuana.

Does anyone else have thoughts on the subject?