It's weed. Who cares? Do a campaign about prescription opiates or meth or something useful.
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DEA Promotes 'Anti-420 Day' Contest For Young People To 'Flood' Instagram With Marijuana Warnings
(www.marijuanamoment.net)
If the DEA wanted to warn people of a real danger on the streets, they'd warn people about cops. Do you hsve ANY idea how many people cops kill every year? Yeah, me neither, because they don't publish the real numbers. They don't take accountability, they just hide everything.
Not just that, but the most dangerous thing about marijuana comes from it being illegal. A cop catching someone with pot will do more damage to their life than the weed ever could.
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XXX WARNING EXTREME DANGER XXX — Marijuana can make you feel good, but may temporarily impair your ability to safely operate heavy machinery. [illustration of a forklift plunging into the abyss, the driver looking relaxed and happy; it hits the ground and explodes]
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MARIJUANA CAN MAKE YOU HIGH [bored teenagers at a party, one young man clearly enjoying himself too much sitting near the TV laughing at The Flintstones]
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WARNING: MARIJUANA MIGHT NOT GIVE YOU A HANGOVER — It might feel like you're getting away with something but that just makes it TOO EASY to do it AGAIN [dude with a 420 T-shirt looking smug amidst some still-comatose alcohol drinkers]
For $5000 in advance from the DEA I'll develop any one of these premises into a professional-quality educational video.
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Beware the DEA kids. They knew about all the oxy all along. They knew about all the hydro. They knew every single major shipment going to Florida, Kentucky and wherever else this whole time. They knew about the opioid epidemic and they rubber stamped every shipment and quota request for the people making the drugs.
Goddamned right, our government threw its own citizens under the bus so pharmaceutical companies could make another billion. Then imprisoned the people who got addicted.
they rubber stamped every shipment and quota request for the people making the drugs.
I don't have trouble believing this could be the case, but can you link some evidence?
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Your casual lawbreaking will be used against you.
This is exactly what had me scared straight for the longest time. It's not the drug, it's the system that punishes use of the drug that's the real threat.
The fact that ex-convicts (people that have paid their debt to society) aren't a protected class in the hiring process is beyond me. At least insofar as non-violent offenses go, there's no cause to throw someone away like this. This goes especially considering the current state of political affairs around here.
"Corrective Rape" as a trope within the American prison system is probably the darkest part of this cartoon.
I would like to once again congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs
I cannot see a single reason why this would backfire.
I can think of 420
dea once again proclaiming how completely out of touch with reality they are.
idiots.
-looking for stories about how marijuana use has negatively impacted your life
"I-I just kept eating. Just kept going. A whole family sized bag of doritos. OH THE HORROR!!"
That's not even a weed thing, that's ultra processed food designed from day 1 to be as addictive as possible....
Which is totally cool and totally legal
Not like it's a plant humans have used for thousands of years or something
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Cannabis will never be as harmful as alcohol. This really outlines their intentions and how little they actually care about harm to children.
This seems perfectly reasonable. I'm sure the people wearing DARE shirts will take this seriously and help out.
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Can’t wait for the epic memes promoting weed
zack morris told me theres no hope with dope right before he narced on a nice guy for responsibly doing weed in his own house and then drove drunk and lied about it to his dad though
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Beautiful
what better way to promote 420 Day than to try to market 'Anti-420 Day' and tell supporters how to cancel the day and send out warnings instead
they just boosted 420 day by 500%
Streisand Effect, is the term you may be looking for. :-D
If you smoke enough marijuana you can hear all the complicated stuff drummer Jeff Porcaro isn't playing on the song Africa by Toto.
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Students would be eligible for a $25 Amazon gift card for a personal video, $35 for a group video and $50 for a “professionally produced educational video or skit with adult sponsor supervision.”
And no content is allowed that “depicts, imitates, or promotes the possession or consumption of any THC product.”
“DO NOT IMITATE THE USE OF THC/MARIJUANA OR PARAPHERNALIA OF ANY KIND, EVEN AS A JOKE,” it emphasizes.
I'd be flooding Instagram with pro-420 Day memes, if I had an account.
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Next, these people are going to start going after heavy metal and rap music again.
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Anti-DEA day for people on the right side of history
Anyone have popcorn?
I cannot fathom any possible way this could go off the rails.
What a great idea!
Remember all those idiots who thought this administration was actually going to make good on their promise to legalize it?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Hey kids, remember, Ted Nugent never smoked pot.
Um. So, there’s that.
Yeah, he just literally shit his pants to dodge the draft, and then wrote a song about how much he likes banging 13 year old girls! Both Trump approved activities! He's good to go!
I thought there was an executive order today or yesterday (can't keep up with the implosion into the fourth reich) that any org that receives money from the state can't make political statements? And wtf would this be then?
It's gonna happen!
It's Gonna Happen!
IT'S GONNA HAPPEN!
Um, guys, it turned out to be kind of the opposite of what we expected.
I'm pro-legalization (because criminalization does much more harm than good) but why are you all acting like this is a bad thing? Especially considering that the campaign is specifically advocating against YOUTH consumption of marijuana? We can all agree that children and adolescents shouldn't consume marijuana, right? Just because it shouldn't be criminalized doesn't change the fact that weed is a habit-forming drug that impairs memory, concentration, and reflexes. It absolutely CAN be dangerous.
Well, it's pretty clear that this is a way for the DEA to get other people to spread propaganda for them. They know the idea is unpopular so they're paying children to do their dirty work for them. They know there are at least a million kids on Instagram who will just do this for a free gift card regardless and they're trying to exploit them.
Also it absolutely reeks of desperation. They're trying to force a viral movement in the most inorganic and insincere way possible. It's like if an unpopular teacher offered to pay her students to go around telling their friends about the benefits of doing extra homework.
And it's worth mentioning one more time, they're exploiting children to spread their lies.
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It's not that this is a "bad thing". It's wildly ineffective, hypocritical, and a waste of resources when compared to other more pressing issues that they are doing nothing about. Thus, mockery.
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I hope the anti weed messages are at least funny so my legally high ass has something to laugh about.
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