ANTI-POT CAMPAIGN WILL ONLY INCREASE TEEN DRUG USE

Have you seen the new not4me anti-marijuana ads from the Harper
government (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NZGPVBCrjY)?

A kid of about 13 wanders through a house party. He goes outside where
there is a quartet of pot smokers who offer him a joint. He thinks for
a moment, then there are all these quick flashes of him with pills,
hiding stuff under his bed, getting into fights with his family,
falling asleep in class, and getting busted at school.

The ad implies that trying pot once will turn you into a full-on drug
fiend within days. This flies in the face of all science on the
subject, but since when were facts used in anti-drug ads?

So the kid just shrugs and goes back into the party "" ostensibly to
eat more junk food and, quaff "Energy Drinks" and listen to L'il Wayne
and Snoop Dogg.

Does anyone really think kids will believe this fear-mongering
balderdash? In the 1980s, when I was a teen, they tried to stuff all
this "Just Say No" stuff down our throats, and all it did was make us
think that adults were morons. Even the straight-laced kids thought
the campaign was a ridiculous insult to our collective
intelligence.

If this new ad campaign is anywhere near as effective as previous
government-run anti-marijuana campaigns, we should see the number of
teen drug users increase 10 per cent within the next few years. Well
done, Mr. Harper.

Russell Barth

Federally Licensed Medical Marijuana User

Patients Against Ignorance and Discrimination on Cannabis