Stewie Griffin promotes drug use for the US Government, or so says Venezuela

i love stewie

And yes everything is better with a bag of weed!

I missed that I was smokin LOLOLOLOLOL. % )

Even more disturbing, according to the Canadian Press, Venezuela authorities are imposing fines for the networks in that country if they air "Family Guy" (ouch)

that show is super funny when ur blown haha
some people take life too serious, just blaze 1 and relax

chavez is just pissed cuz they werent snorting cocaine !

Wow ... A cartoon that actually makes sense! Free the weed! Peace.

the american government is not to take on smarter government with competent people

i hardly think family guy speaks or represents the us government,,,,,,,,,

Family Guy is one of the best things ever!

Great so Chavez's government is trying to blame us for his country trafficing drugs. Last time I checked Hugo that's your job to control. Maybe if you weren't too busy with your image in the media and taking away rights maybe you could get shit done in your country. Sure we pick on Chavez a lot but the fool opens his mouth all the time he's perfect game.

everybody needs a bag of weed.

i love the shot of woody harleson.(sp?)
great.
but seriously? dont you dare blam family guy! its a TV SHOW!

what ever venezuelan said that should just smoke a dobbie

i didn't know that manatees could smoke pot.

Hugo's just mad cuz Stewie gives him Whood !

Family guy teaches that dogs can speak and that bestiality is ok.

family guy has guns on it. why didnt he bitch about that.?
what about cigs , they kill people !. no just pot. the problem with the whole world is cannabis......

did they miss that whole "freedom of speech" thing in our constitution?

or did they just forget?

Am I the only one who thinks the interior minister has a valid point?
Yes, this bit of information is just one gov't official's statement and it shouldn't be newsworthy, but here we are, talking about it.

He says that we, in America, are encouraged to smoke weed through shows like Family Guy. Uh....yeah....duh..
Doesn' t that make sense?
Many TV shows and movies have destigmatized marijuana by showing it as it is, for the most part. You have stoners like Otto from The Simpsons, but there has come to be quite the variety, as demonstrated explicitly in Half Baked or implicitly in Dazed and Confused.
However, promoting drug use in general is another story. Most users of other drugs aren't treated so well on TV. Meth, crack, and heroin junkies are usually depicted as junkies, which makes sense.
Most of his points beyond "TV makes us want to smoke weed" are inane but his criticism of our role in this Drug War have quite a bit of legitimacy.

There are only a couple of comments worth reading. It's true : Current is often a waste of resources - just as trivial as beauty contests ( and they are more titillating ). Even the guy who's trying to be thoughtful doesn't 'get it'. Who made Venezuela an enemy of the US ? Have they tried to invade lately ? All I saw were news squibs of how they were helping Americans keep from 'freezing in the dark' when energy prices went nuts.
'Enemies' like that I could use more of.
Saying Prohibition is a US problem ? LEAP ( Law Enforcement Against Prohibition ) must be Venezuelan, I guess : they think the same thing.
Weed is a variety of tobacco ... and a weed. Prohibiting that - a medicinal drug and natural painkiller - is an execrcise in job security for drug companies and police.

The guy who say this was high at the moment, and say it as a positive thing. It’s the only explanation.

I am from Venezuela, I can assure you that the majority of the people there understand the point and issues shown on that cool episode of the family guy .
Chavez is trying to close down all the radio and tv stations that say anything bad about him, also he is trying to stop freemdom of speech. People in Venezuela protest all the time in the streets.
Chavez is crazy the Venezuelan people don't want him there.

He didn't say the US government, just the US.

It's true. We have a culture that promotes drug use, and he cited the cartoon as an example of how it's not Venezuela's fault that the USA is fueling their drug trafficking.

It's the USA's demand that fuels it.

It's a game of "gotcha" politics. He's just trying to rebuke the US government's badmouthing of Venezuela.

one cartoon doesnt represent the whole nation lol

Woody Harrelson is high as fuck in that picture.

Clearly Chavez has a hard time understanding how things work in countries that don't control all forms of media. Freedom of expression is a long forgotten art in Venezuela.

Family Guy does not speak for the US Government.

Though if it meant the legalization of Weed, then I'd be all for it.

Why Haven't we legalized pot yet anyway?

Best episode ever! You don't need meth and you don't need speed, so let's all work together and free the weed!

Hey you got a joint man? ..... It'd be a lot cooler if you did.

i haven't seen this episode yet but it's pretty witty

Family Guy is totally stupid, so who gives a isht!

J_Jammer

I mention it b/c I find it fantastic how on this site, all the real problems (the dictatorships, the falsified elections, the human rights violations) of us allies gets ignored.

Simultaneoulsy stupid headlines about our enemies, or every mistake of our enemies is newsworthy, while there is absolutely no focus on what is actually going on in some of those countries. Venezuela is a fantastic example.

the comment by the venezuelan interior was idiotic.

However that this is news is even more idiotic.

the irony of all of you is unbelievable.

Publicly funded tv in venezuela says things that the government agrees with, but also that the government disagrees with. It is like saying that the PBS is a mouthpiece for the government in the US, or CBC is a mouthpiece for the government in Canada.

You people are making fun of Chavez (who is not involved in the comment- the station is) while doing the exact same thing as the station, thinking that the station represents the words of the leadership.

I hope this is simple enough to explain your idiodicy. When will the people of the US develop decent critical thinkinking skills?

LOL they clearly didn't research as to whether Family Guy was government sponsored, produced, written or touched.... I heart stupidity.

Now that's just retarded.

i didn't know that manatees could smoke pot.

If weapons are bad, why does Chavez need so many of them to keep in power?

ahaha stewie griifin says to do drugs so we all must be addicts!!!

We're really past the point of legalization. What this shows is the influence that weed has in our culture, what it has become and people standing up and saying "We don't give a damn if it's not legal"

It's about time we just ignore this ridiculous law and do our own thing, we all know that weed is a great plant that harms nobody, so do what is right, and don't let anyone else tell you it's illegal to have a plant.

Why don't they play this in the US, instead of the dozens of pharmaceutical commercials we get every hour.

Before we start paying attention to what venezuela has to say let me tell you something about them..

They are too good to help any of their own neighbouring countries. They need the US currency because their own currency flopped years ago, and they're too snob to admit that they're ashamed of their own banking system.

So the people who have influence there want the locals to stop using the US dollar by slandering the US in the media....So what? our media needs to stop fighting and feeding into the media from other countries. The main problem with US media is that no one in that industry cares about the motives behind the actions taken, they just want to spew another story for their gain and let everyone else get lost in translation.

Who gives a fuck what they say.

I wasn't aware the US government wrote Family Guy.

FIRE IT UP !!!......good for them to call out americans hypocrisy.....legalize it ! everythings better with a bag of weed. BO knows WEED !

Apparently they need a bag of weed.