I mean some are. Most people think illegal drugs were made illegal on an arbitrary basis when the reality is that they have life ruining health risks. Then when you point that out some druggie screams about SSRIs or alcohol as if the side effects are compareble to the side effects of paranoia and psychosis that half of the illicit drugs cause.

>don't be a fool, smoking isn't cool
Thanks Sonic

>>153251663

Drugs are the fruit of the devil. That highly satanic hatemonger Nostalgia Critic wants to teach little children to be junkies

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Why did they always make these PSA villains so cool?
You telling me you wouldn't smoke a joint with this dude?

>>153251746
Stfu, subhuman fag

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>>153251736
>Then when you point that out some druggie screams about SSRIs or alcohol as if the side effects are compareble to the side effects of paranoia and psychosis that half of the illicit drugs cause.


Weed bad ssris good

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>>153251663
tell that to hypper tigger

>>153251810
No

>>153251810
Unironically yes.
Sorry you need to justify you're addiction by pointing to people using a prescription specifically how it's intended rather than just taking a hit every hour like a fucking loser pothead. You want to compare pot to Insulin too while you're at it?

>>153251736
That's why it's complicated, since some drugs WERE arbitrarily criminalized. Look at just about everything involving marijuana and its criminalization, and it reads like a /pol/ schizopost. But since it's complicated, 99% of burgers will just go with it.

t. Burger that doesn't use THC, but does hate bullshit aimed at a tiny fraction of the population, but fucks over everybody because 'lol, fuck 'em '

>>153251736
>the reality is that they have life ruining health risks
So does alcohol. It causes 178,000 deaths in the US each year and is one of the only drugs where withdrawals can literally kill you. It tears apart families the same way as heroin and meth. But alcohol is socially acceptable, so none of that matters.

>>153251663
Unironically, yes.

wasn't this thing the biggest crossover at the time after roger rabbit

Yes.
Yes, it was.

>>153251793
George C. Scott was the voice

>>153251810
The likelihood of undergoing psychosis with SSRI medication is tiny compared to pot use

>>153251663
PSAs were right. Drugs are bad, smoking is bad, don't talk to strangers, don't bow to peer pressure.

>>153251663
sez u

>>153251874
Cannabis is the leading cause in psychosis with young adults, causes IQ decline with on and off use while alcohol requires heavy use and is far worse of a risk for traffic accidents. It is materially more harmfull than beer 1:1, with the bulk of beers harm coming from societal acceptance of heavy misuse being the norm while cannabis can be harmfull even in non-heavy use.

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When are we going to address the real elephant in the room?

>>153251663
I didn't think this special was that bad. A bit surreal, but not bad.

>>153253616
THC drinks usually are nothing but a La Croix with some weed in it. Beer is has hundreds of calories and sugars in one can. Not even talking about the drug components, beer is extremely unhealthy, maybe even more than soda when it comes to health risks like weight gain and heart attacks. Alcohol is a drug, it's a bad one, we tried to ban it before, but hypocrites in the White House who never stopped drinking after the law passed made it come back. Drugs are drugs, no matter how socially or legally acceptable they are. Did you have a cup of coffee or a soda today? Shit, you must be some caffeine druggie.

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>>153253631
Yes.
Let's.

>>153253631
That's not an elephant

>>153253616
It's physically impossible to smoke so much weed at once that it would kill you
The same can't be said for alcohol.

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>>153253993
No, but he is seeing some pink flying elephants right now

>>153252046
Yes.
It played on ABC, CBS and NBC and most Fox stations at the same time slot on a Saturday Morning with an intro by President Bush.

>>153251663
Sorry, OP, but thanks to the CIA flooding the streets with opioids, Big Pharma™ pushing overmedication to turn the population into addicted zombies and executives snorting literally buckets of cocaine, drugs are now good.
Congratulations to drugs, for winning the War on Drugs.

>>153254134
Can we re-legalize MDMA?

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>>153254134
>>153254189

Weren’t these anti-drug psa’s statistically proven to be ineffective and only continued because politicians wanted it to look like they were doing something?

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What if Castle showed up?

>>153254371
How the fuck do you even statistically prove if something like this is effective or not? Like do you think there was some kind of exchange like "Hey little Jimmy did you see that PSA where Winnie the Pooh told you not to do drugs?" "Yes, I am now an extreme crackhead"

>>153251663
>But we can't really show actual HARD drugs because that would be too scary, fuckedup, and depressing to show proper addicts. So we'll aim low for weed.

>>153254404
It's how it happened to me.

>>153251874
I always found this bizzare when alcohol is a drug that commonly results in the death of others due to DUIs.

Well I guess the US tried to ban it once but that failed miserably

>>153254518
>alcohol is a drug that commonly results in the death of others due to DUIs
Same applies to weed, but alcohol is more prevalent.

>>153254371
More or less. I mean the core issue is you're attacking Weed. Not to pretend weed doesn't have it's issues (Chance to cause mini psychosis episodes on very high doses, dependency issues, you're still smoking if you're not doing edibles), it's not showing kids that AWFUL drugs that do fuck people up hard like Meth, Cocaine, Crack, etc.

Granted it's because the results are usually VERY depressing to see/gross disturbing for younger kids. And plus yeah turns out a "War on Drugs" was harder than they thought, and all it did was excuse SWAT's existence, and a reason to give long prison sentences to people they didn't like if they had a baggies of weed on 'em.

I still enjoy weed myself, but thank GOD decriminalization is gaining traction in this country. (Again, not undermining Weed's problems, but then again I started like late 20s and not in my teens)

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>>153251874
>>153254518
The issue with alcohol is that it's insanely easy to produce. You can't really truly ever regulate it in the same way as other drugs. You can go down to the store, pick up some oranges and yeast, and make alcohol right now in your own home. Shitty alcohol, but for an addict they don't give a fuck. Shit you don't even technically need yeast, you can just leave it open and wait for fermentation to start before sealing it so that other bacteria don't get it. They've tried this multiple times in history and it never works because as long as you can mix something with sugar into water you can make your own junk.

And yes alcohol is one of the most damaging drugs in terms of how it harms the individual and others around them, especially people that can't moderate themselves, but like literally what the actual fuck are you supposed to do?

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The only drug that is allowed is wine, because it was a gift given to us by God. All others need not apply.

>>153254696
>but like literally what the actual fuck are you supposed to do?

Spread awareness of alcohol abuse/addiction, and encourage moderation instead. Don't ban it or antagonize it like it's a super villain.

>>153254776
ok Auntie Anon

>>153251856
Even if it might have been done for silly reasons, the actions of weedheads has shown that we should not destigmatize its use.

>>153254696
>>153254789
That doesn't work though. The chinese found that out the hard way with opium.

>>153254805
That sounds like you just hate dealing with stoners. You can ignore them.

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>>153254799
You're welcome sweetie!

>>153254808
I mean it doesn't help when the British were actively shoving it down people's throats

>>153254819
You seem to think that society can operate with people behaving in increasingly antisocial ways.

>>153254789
They tried that and it's the current idea, it can only go so far when some people are genetically predisposed to being alcoholics or otherwise just have addictive personalities. Alcohol is a bitch.

>>153254836
They introduced the problem, but the point is that treating the problem via awareness or moderation failed. In the end force worked. Afghanistan has learned that same lesson too. You lock them in a hole or line them up a wall with abusers

>>153254869
As long as people want to get high, they'll find a way to do it.

>>153254926
Same with murder, but that doesn't mean you make it easy to do it.

>>153254926
Some people. The worst kind.
Many will choose to not be punished harshly in order to get the tingly brain feeling.

>>153251663
EU anon here. Was the drug problem really that serious in the US in the 80s and early 90s that you had video games, cartoons and other media tell you "Drugs are bad, m'kay"? I remember a good chunk of arcade games having that stupid "Winners don't take drugs" PSA.

>>153254836
That doesn't sound like the British. They would never give opium for free.

>>153255143
Did you forget gangster movies of the time?

>>153255143
Reagan filled the ghettos with drugs for funding the Contras but he didn't expect white kids would get hooked on drugs too

cartoon: don't do drugs
millennials and gen xers: This is propaganda!! This is evil!!

>>153255213
>That doesn't sound like the British. They would never give opium for free.
You underestimate British generosity when it comes at the expense of a rival power. The French empire was made aware of that with the Napoleon wars as Britian was practically throwing money at any nation willing to go to war with France.

>>153255143
Partly it was overblown. And political showmanship.
But there really were a greater variety of drugs, available to a wider range of people.
Just like everything in the mid to late 20th century, advances in manufacturing, transport, and communication made the underground industry boom.
The leaders and media at the time just didn't handle it with the most tact.

>>153255311
>Don't Do Drugs!
>But we're going to only do it with Weed because the owners of these cartoons don't want us showing actual HARD drugs.

>>153255143
Basically >>153255356

Conservatives love overblowing drug epidemics because it buys votes from white suburbanites. That said it was easier to showcase people that bought drugs being tossed in jail and given "just fates" than to actually go deal with the people who made drugs in South America.

Plus you can't stamp it out forever. There's always gonna be a Pablo Escobar wannabe because; where there is demand, someone will supply, and it just makes money.

So yeah, "War of Drugs" is more or less a product of a specific point in US history than anything else. The more hilariously "shit it's pants" version was D.A.R.E with the lion that ended up with more teens enjoying weed than rejecting it.

What works is just sitting older kids down, telling them about the serious had drugs that do harm and kill, and cautioning them about the legal stuff to never do it until they're at least legal, and when they do, to fucking MODERATE so they don't have all the problems that comes with over doing *ANY* drug.

>>153256195
*serious hard drugs

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New Jack City was enough of an anti drug message for me. Thanks Chris Rock!

>>153254842
>potheads
>being anti-social
t.narc
If you have a problem with anti-social tendency, then we should get rid of 4chan.
There's no greater den of anti-social malcontents than anywhere on the internet.

>>153254957
Retard

>>153256358
Based Trvke. This is just a den where everyone pats themselves for being negative assholes.

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>>153251663
some great moments in that special

>>153256607
Is she giving him inside information on pork bellies?

>>153251663
One of the better hallucinations, I'd say.

erm what's that funny smell?

>>153254957
>Getting high is as bad as murder
You're the kind of retard they make this propaganda for.

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>Saddam must withdraw from Kuwait or face annihilation.
Strange the movie opened with this.

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Is this the thread?

>>153258890
Why, yes.
Yes, it is.

>>153256384
Newfag