Above-the-Influence commercial

Alright... just saw the most retarded antidrug commercial to date!

its starts out with a young girl talking about her friend and how they used to have alot of fun together until her friend started smoking pot... then the camera pans over to the couch with her friend who is deflated (say you let all the air out of a blow up doll) and laying on the couch... the girl says "thats all shes done since she started smoking pot, nothing else"

the commercial ended and flashed the URL www.abovetheinfluence.com ... sweet commercial eh?


http://www.abovetheinfluence.com/the-ads/default.aspx heres all the ads... click on the "flat" link and enjoy its stupidity!

 

Actually I think its one of the least retarded...my gf and I, we smoke pot, and we don't do anything lol.

Many people who smoke pot are like the girl in the commercial.

 

man I saw that like yesterday or something. What show where you watching ? shit I cant remember that either. but ya I saw that and I laughed at it the whole time. Just because half the time Im out smoking pot at a buddys and chillin. Or going to the movies high is pritty cool too. But ya w/e one day Ill go to the waterpark in west ed mall.


haha I jus realized I kept ranting, pritty cooked heh.

EDIT: HOLY SHIT watch the ad called "tic tic" its hilarious(sp?)

 

You need new friends.
NO ONE I know sits around their whole life and does nothing.
Among the people I know who smoke there are doctors, scientists, and firefighters.

 

i sit around and do nothing all day but i was doing that before i even smoked weed so whatever...i guess its genetic

 

I dont do anything. Not because I smoke weed, but because everything about the life society tries to sell (go to school, get a job, be a good little automaton) is completely void of any meaning. The only goal most people seem to have in the 'real world' is fueled by a desire for either money or power. So yeah, my cruddy view of society is why I do nothing.

Tic Tic is the best ad on there though. By far.

This campaign seems to be trying pretty hard to influence kids to be 'above the influence'. Seems a lot like the Bush campaign to force people to be free...

 

Oh yeah, this statistic pisses me off.

"Marijuana is addictive. More teens are in treatment with a primary diagnosis of marijuana dependence than for all other illicit drugs combined."

Hrm, lets see, maybe more kids are in programs for their marijuana 'addiction' because of parents who watch this shit and send them away, or schools that catch a kid with pot and force them to go to therapy before they're allowed back in school. This is like saying that marijuana is bad because its illegal.

 

i ahve a job...so when im not working im on the computer, being lazy and watchin tv, or with friends

 

those statistics fucking piss me off too. like: two out of 5 dumbass kids smokes weed. it doesnt matter what the statistic is if it doesnt apply to you!

"reality check: pot is illegal"

NO WAY! I thought i was a law abiding citizen untill now!

OH MY GOD! ONE DAY I'M LETTING MY FRIENDS TALK ME INTO TRYING WEED. THE NEXT, IM DOING EVERY DUMBASS THING THEY TELL ME TO DO!

 

i couldnt get the commercials, maybe because im on a mac. I want tht grilled cheese in your sig!

 

that thing does look fucking delicious...



it's been a loonng time since i had a grilled cheese....too long, in fact....

 

i hada freakin grilled cheese tonight man, it was super good man, i put dil pickeles on it and it gives it an extra little twang that tastes amazing man, i saw it on the food channel one time so i tried it, soo great man

 

man when i smoke yeah some times i get really lazy but most of the time im ready to go out and surf or skate or go to a concert i love doin stuff high. weed kinda encourage me to do stuff so i dunno. all i know is all those ads are so much crap man. they really make me laugh

 

what i always wonder is this.. they (the ppl who run the anti drug orgs.) arnt that stupid, they know they throw out alot of bullshit and half truths, so i wonder why they care so much bout ppl using drugs.. i never understood why people cant just be happy in the fact that they dont do drugs, why do they have to bring everybody down with them...
im not sure if i made complete sense, but does anybody kno wat im saying?

 

The "flat" advert is pretty lame, but I have no problem with the other ones, they're just encouraging kids to think for themselves, and I'm all for that.

I've never experienced peer pressure, I was the first one out of my circle of friends to smoke grass, and I never really advertised it...

But apparantly lots of kids are pressured into these kinds of things... And "if" (and I stress- if) these ads can make them stop and think before doing somthing just because their friends are doing it, then good!

On the other hand, I do have some major issues with the "my anti drug" campaign.

 

my theory is the government is trying to help big business such as the drug companies man. marijuana is such a good drug and helps so many things that the drug companies would get hurt in business. and i also believe that the government knows what it can do to open up your mind and liberate you and they dont want that. thats just me tho and im kinda crazy

 

Paid for by the same people. "The Office of National Drug Control Policy/Partnership for a Drug Free America"

I think everyone should make the choice for themselves, but thats not what these ads are about. They're about telling kids what to do and what not to do. Telling kids to make the choice and be their own person, when all they're doing is being some other kid who hates drugs because the TV said so. They're not making the choice, the choice was allready made for them as soon as they were open enough to the message to be influenced by it. Sure they're above the influence of drugs, but they're under the influence of the TV, under the influence of "The Office of National Drug Control Policy/Partnership for a Drug Free America". The campaign is doing exactly what it supposedly fights against.

The whole thing is an anti-pot campaign with a few extra things thrown in there to make it look like its talking about all area's of kids lives, when its only goal is to affect one. Thats why 7 out of the 12 "Problem/Solution" comebacks are about pot, another 3 about alcohol and OTC's.

And yeah, that sammich is mighty good looking, I got the munchies too....

 

I saw that commercial...it is pretty retarded

Since I started smoking I now do(or re-started) the following activities:
Play guitar
Write
Ultimate Frisbee
Golf
Bowling
Make short films
Draw
Gardening haha

There's more, but those were the ones I thought of right off the top of my head...fuck them.

 

I like when they talk about people smoking being depressed later in social situations (When they mean like...parties, school etc)

...no shit...maybe because I now realize how bullshitted all the kids drinking, but refusing to smoke are, how biased schools are, how fucked up the government is (Despite that it's sadly one of the best on the planet...not neccessarily THE best...but I would say my standards of living are pretty fucking good)

Anyway, that's it.

 

I never am lazy when I'm high. I'm always busy doing stuff; like eating and cooking and packing bowls.