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10 amazing anti-drug cartoon episodes
Everything I need to know I learned on Saturday mornings.
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Hollywood Milks Stoner Stereotypes in Anti-Pot Propaganda Film
Above the Influence's faux documentary, Stoners In The Mist, is a film so prejudiced that even the White House -- which commissioned the interactive video -- is hesitant to promote it.
Available online at the AbovetheInfluence.com website (a project of the White House's multi-billion dollar National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, Stoners In The Mist is a series of vignettes -- each designed to grossly exaggerate and exploit common pothead stereotypes. But promoting falsehoods about the physical and mental effects of weed is nothing new for federal politicians and bureaucrats. What sets Stoners In The Mist apart from prior examples of government-financed anti-pot excrement is the film's shocking and exceedingly malevolent tone.
In this case, cannabis consumers are portrayed, quite literally, as less than human. Rather, they are mockingly characterized as wild game -- to be hunted, tagged, and bagged by the film's 'Crocodile Hunter' inspired narrator.
The host refers to pot smokers as lab "specimens" whose safety requires them to be locked up in an "artificially controlled environment" (a not-so-subtle endorsement of jail, perhaps?) Above the Influence's faux documentary, Stoners In The Mist, is a film so prejudiced that even the White House -- which commissio... more -
Snorting cocaine is a no brainer... as in no brains
Enjoy coke (the white kind)? You might think differently after you watch this PSA from New Zealand. Click through to watch. Warning! Not for the weak stomachs. Enjoy coke (the white kind)? You might think differently after you watch this PSA from New Zealand. Click through to watch. Warning! N... more
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Anti-drugs campaign takes tips from Attenborough
It is really that time of year again already? The government is unveiling its latest weapon of choice in the battle against drug-addled teenagers vomiting snot all over their errant parents' houses. Shot in the style of a wildlife documentary, the just-for-web ad explores a house party in deepest suburbia, encountering such creatures as the 'young acid dropper' on LSD 'caught on camera for the first time'. David Attenborough was approached to voice the narration, but sadly declined. Do these things work? I wonder to myself. It is really that time of year again already? The government is unveiling its latest weapon of choice in the battle against drug-addl... more
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Blackwater anti-drug task force in US?
Blackwater has bids in for up to $15,000,000,000 in anti-drug contracts. Blackwater. Does this trend frighten any one else as much as it does me? Especially when combined with certain legislation signed by Bush that makes it easier for him to declare martial law and deploy troops in our own country for use against civilians. Blackwater has bids in for up to $15,000,000,000 in anti-drug contracts. Blackwater. Does this trend frighten any one else as much as ... more
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Keep Off The Grass
Sid Davis, a film producer behind an extensive amount of dark, cautionary educational films, died of lung cancer. Here we pay homage to the mastermind behind "Keep Off The Grass." Sid Davis, a film producer behind an extensive amount of dark, cautionary educational films, died of lung cancer. Here we pay homage t... more
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Destroying Cocaine
This pod is about an anti-narcotics police team looking for a coca lab. We followed the entire process until the lab was destroyed. This pod shows part of the work of the anti-narcotics police in Colombia, their efforts to put an end to the coca business, and their perspective on this matter. It also shows the labs where cocaine is made and everything that is used in this procedure. This pod is about an anti-narcotics police team looking for a coca lab. We followed the entire process until the lab was destroyed. Th... more
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Dead Wrong.
Crack is to Peewee as Peewee is to public service announcements.
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