Anti-Drug promotion

[Supafly345]

Is it just me, or were all the anti-drug media concentrated in the 80's? You know, the specials that consisted of a bunch of 12 year olds eagarly sharing their expensive narcotics with the new kid. And of course they were "gangs" that were made up of 12 year olds at that. Threatning to pop a cap-gun in yo' ass if you don't take their drugs that they so willingly offer (apperently pre-teens had the hook-up on penny crack back in those days).
Plus there was the confusing commercials trying to make my adolecent self think my brain was really an egg, and that taking drugs would make it fried and delicious with a side of bacon.

Did any of these ever work? I mean, I never see them anymore. Now they are cracking down with those goofy "TRUTH" commercials that are a pathetic attempt at having an actual artistical message to it (I think they are trying to tell me to eat at Denny's).

Were those sad anti-drug productions a waste of money? Or just for a hilarious era too look back on?

[Perndog]

Every anti-drug promotion, ever, was a sad waste of money. I want to punch DARE program advocates, health teachers, and Target Market and Truth people in the teeth. Righteous-minded controlling abstinence advocates trying to tell kids how to live, as if it were those people's job and not parents'.

[Supafly345]

Ah, but sadly that is today's parent. They have gotten used to the television raising their children and the government decides it's up to them to turn these kids into healthey, burger-loving, brainwashed, patriots.
I don't know if any of that stuff worked for me or not. But "I was cool and went to school" and knew that "winners don't do drugs." Was it the messages beaten into my head at a young age? Or was it the many deathreats my dad made for the time he ever heard of my use? Or maybe it was my psycho aunt whom's mind is so baked she thinks that living with her parents at 40 is a career.

What did DARE stand for anyway?

[LeChuck]

What did DARE stand for anyway?

D.A.R.E. = Drug Abuse Resistance Education


LeChuck

[punkgrrrlie10]

Those 12 year olds that were slangin in the 80's now formed dummy corporations in the Atlantic Ocean and now use their billions to lobby against anti-drug commercials so that people won't know drugs are bad for them.

[Perndog]

I don't get why it's called drug abuse. Wouldn't it be more like self abuse? I mean, the drugs exist to fuck you up, so that's their proper use. :confused

[Emu]

Drug abuse makes it sound like drugs are okay, but using too many of them is abusing it. ...maybe that is what it means.

[BlueOatmeal]

Or maybe you can do drugs just don't punch them, kick them or belittle them in frount of all thier friends. Because ya' know drugs have feelings to and it hurts just as much when someone steps all over them.

[Spooky]

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CARTOON ALLSTARS
:) :) :) :)

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0712/

[Supafly345]

Yes. My mom recorded the special of that for me and my siblings.
Up untill I left 2 years ago I was still watching it. It is the closest I can get to actual drugs.

[CastroMotorOil]

dude drugs are the easiest thing in the world to get, i know offhand like 5 peopel that can get me weed day or night, and through them i could get crack, herion, speedballs (nightmare), or any other fucking drug i wanted.

[Nerd]

YOU'RE ADDICTED TO DRUGS. :lol

[strangelysublime]

I remember those awesome DARE shirts. they used to say stupid stuff like; DARE to resist drugs and violence. DARE to say no to drugs.

Its like they thought by putting that on a shirt, the next time you were offered drugs you would say "no thanks, a guy about ten minutes ago walked by and his shirt told me to say no to drugs so i am going to listen to him"

[Bennett]

this thread sucks.

[Snatchtastic]

What did DARE stand for anyway?

DARE= Drugs Are Really Excellent

[Bennett]

my favorite were the "anti-drug" commercials, because I used to say how great it would be if they made some where instead of talking about drawing or skateboarding, they would be like:

"cutting myself is my anti-drug,"
or
"fucking your hot sister is my anti-drug."


:( this thread still sucks.

[Snatchtastic]

I find all those traumatic anti-drug commercials funny.

Like when the two kids are hangin out in his dads study and he say's hey look at my gun. Then he points it at him and shoots him. That wasn't because of pot, that guy just wanted to smoke his friend Mob style in that posh leather office.

Or when the stoned kids at the drive thru find out they dont have any money cause they've spent it all on the chron, then they plow into a dumb kid on a bike who should have been watching where she was going.

GOLD!

[soundtest]

I'd like to know how many people those pot commercials actually pushed towards hard drugs with their incessant bullshit. I remember one of them from way back that claimed that if you smoked pot you'd think you could fly and jump off a building. How many kids do you think smoked pot, realized that that statement was complete bullshit and then assumed they were lying about heroin and crack as well?

Regardless, no matter how fucked up I've ever been on anydrug, if I ever thought I could 'fly' I'd try it from the fucking ground first. :rolleyes

[Zbu Manowar]

I find all those traumatic anti-drug commercials funny.

Like when the two kids are hangin out in his dads study and he say's hey look at my gun. Then he points it at him and shoots him. That wasn't because of pot, that guy just wanted to smoke his friend Mob style in that posh leather office.

Yet I don't see any anti-gun sentiment coming from THAT! ;)

Or when the stoned kids at the drive thru find out they dont have any money cause they've spent it all on the chron, then they plow into a dumb kid on a bike who should have been watching where she was going.

GOLD!

A little editing and you can make it look like the worst McDonalds commercial in the world. "Look, I ate a Big Mac and iced a retarded girl on a bike! DAMN CHOLESTEROL!!"

[Jeanette X]

I remember one with a girl huffing glue in her bedroom, and a voice over explaining that huffing deprives the brain of oxygen and that "When you think you're sniffing, your brain thinks your drowning" as the room started to fill up with water and the girl desperatley tried to escape by swimming to the window. And it ended with; "...and your brain is pretty much right" as it showed the final shot of the girl pressed against the window, apparently dead.
It was simple and yet disturbing enough to be effective. It really spooked me as a kid.
Oh, btw Snatch, I found the one with the pot and the gun: http://www.mediacampaign.org/multimedia/den.mov
and the one with the little kid on the bike:
http://www.mediacampaign.org/multimedia/drive_thru.mov
This one is actually fairly realistic: http://www.mediacampaign.org/multimedia/wallet2.mov
Go here for more anti-drug commercials: http://www.drugfreeamerica.org/Commercials/
There's actually one in there with Henry Rollins. Look under the anti-methamphetimine campaign.

[The Retro Kat]

I like those cartoons in the early 90's with the scribbly cartoons, this is you, this is you on drugs, or whatever it was.

[Big Papa Goat]

FOOD FORUM! :(

[Mike P]

Heuheuheuheuheuheuehuheuheuhe

CARTOON ALLSTARS
:) :) :) :)

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0712/

Someday, I will have a copy of that tape. Someday...

[Schimid]

OMG I USED TO HAVE THAT I SWEAR. :eek

ACTUALLY MAYBE NOT, I DON'T THINK MINE HAD POOH.

EDIT: WAIT, YES IT DID BECAUSE IT'S ABOUT A PIGGY BANK AND ALF SAYS "PIGGY BANK" IN A REALLY LOL VOICE.

[EverythingWillSuck]

That movie was awesome. Never again will I see Alf and Garfield in the same room.

The scribbly cartoons were pretty funny, tho a bit creepy.

Actually growing up my mom was never into the whole anti-drug bullshit and just told me her experiences straight-up.

Also I think it's pretty funny; I've never done drugs in my life and I never was in the DARE programs at my schools, and everyone I know that were in those are potheads now. Quick change. :lol

[Supafly345]

I like those cartoons in the early 90's with the scribbly cartoons, this is you, this is you on drugs, or whatever it was.Ironic thing is that potheads probably were the one's who liked them the most. To watch. While high.

The funniest one was:
Scribbly face of kid shown wiggling.
Announcer- "What do you do when someone offers you drugs?"
Scribbly face of dog shown wiggling with black scribbles rising from it to represent anger smoke.
"GRRRRRRR... GRRRRRRR"

I made sure to say that every time I was offered drugs. I had my money stolen and got beat up a lot.

[Geggy]

'This is your brain on drugs' is classic.

Everytime I smoked pot, i'd say my eggs are frying. :lol

[A.S.H.]

Does anyone remember the Flintstones kids episode where they made a 'Just Say No Club'?
I can almost imagine any drug user going "Fine, more drugs for me!"

Honestly, one of the peculiar messages that is pushed is that people seem to want to track you down and make you smoke a joint.

An 'Anti-Drug' commerical I recall where the guy said his was drawing. The guys offered him a jay, and he started to bolt, and the guys RUN AFTER HIM AND LEAVE IT ON THE GROUND! Now, pot smokers are not necessarily the sharpest tools in the shed for the large part, but I don't think they're going to chase your ass down if you don't want that jamaican grass, "Shit, more for me!" *puff, COUGH*