If you do drugs then you kill AMERICANS!!!!!!!

[Clocker]

Lately I have seen a few commercials and ads supporting such a premise. Further some government officials seem to champion such sentiment.

It is my contention that oil had more of a direct impact in terms of funding compared to any drug money. How come there aren?t any commercials stating that if you pump gas in your car then you are killing someone etc.

Don?t get me wrong I am a patriot. But, I feel that these commercials were a bit short sighted and had a different political agenda.

I think it would be better if the President took more initiative in hybrid vehicles and other technologies that may help Americans curb the need to be so dependent on the Middle East.

That is my opinion

What is yours?

Clocker

 

[hoihtah]

so if i'm in mexico... smoking up...
then i'm killing americans?

hmm... then it is true... the whole worlds is against US.

 

[nihil]

sounds like DEA propaganda to me. when will they ever give up?

 

[MazerRackham]

I don't know about drugs and Americans, but I know what happens when you guys start to fap fap fap fap fap

 

[datalink7]

Yah, those "every time you buy drugs you are supporting terriorism" are not only wrong, but are immorally (IMO) taking advantage of 9/11 to try and prove a faulty point.

How about this one: "every time you buy gas, you are supporting terriorism."


I mean, come on

 

[nihil]

<< Yah, those "every time you buy drugs you are supporting terriorism" are not only wrong, but are immorally (IMO) taking advantage of 9/11 to try and prove a faulty point.

How about this one: "every time you buy gas, you are supporting terriorism."


I mean, come on

>>



yeah, it's rediculous.

 

[Beau]

It probably depends on the drug. Since heroin and opium are major exports of the middle east, then they should clarify it and say "if you do heroin or opium, then you are support terrorism." That seems to be logical. But Bobby Potsmoker can rest assured that his wacky weed came from some fat happy mexican, not Osama.

 

[apoppin]

More illogic spewing forth in the Gov't's War on People (aka "war on drugs").

 

[TheOmegaCode]

Crap, does that means my friends just killed off a little village in the Rocky mountains...?

 

[Nefrodite]

hehe yes, suvs for terrorism!! which is kinda true

but its easier to beat up on drugs they'd be better off telling americans to grow their own pot or only buy domestic

 

[Eli]

<< It probably depends on the drug. Since heroin and opium are major exports of the middle east, then they should clarify it and say "if you do heroin or opium, then you are support terrorism." That seems to be logical. But Bobby Potsmoker can rest assured that his wacky weed came from some fat happy mexican, not Osama. >>



Yeah.

One other note, though..

There ain't no mexican dirt weed here in Oregon.

 

[PC166]

Some of my friend are on weeds, i dunno what to say about that other then you can't judge someone by what they do for pleasure. LOL. It's really not my business but a few were admiting they do this occasionally so thats how I know.

 

[Balt]

While I don't necessarily agree with or support the ads, let's not kid ourselves. If you do buy drugs, you are not helping the United States. Not to mention that Colombia (an entire country) is in a lot of trouble because of the demand of Americans for drugs.

As far as oil goes, yes I wish we could find alternative sources so that we weren't sending money to the Middle East, but for the moment their oil is a necessity for our economy and for ourselves. There is nothing necessary about using cocaine or heroine. Hence, I believe that comparison is a bit flawed.

 

[FelixDeCat]

This is so true! All you damn potheads should be ashamed of yourselves. For shame I say!:disgust:

 

[VTrider]

Does anybody really think that the powers to be (oil companies) would ever let americans drive electic cars? I mean come on people, too many people are making too much money off of oil - it's as easy as that, greed and power will hinder alternative options for energy for even more decades to come.

-VTrider

(BTW: 'Aint no mexican schwag over here in Vermont either )

 

[jmitchell]

there was a really long post on this when they first started airing that ABSOLUTE CRAP. (around super bowl time, heck I dont remember) Such a rediculous 'balloon' statement brings loads of vomit from my stomach out all over my shoes... I dont even use anything even more, but jesus man, that kind of ignorant, unintelligent propaganda INSPIRES anger, hate, and violence, much more than anything else I have seen lately... If our state/government wants our support, then honesty, clarity and a realistic approach to significant issues is a much better plan than attempted brainwashing. How much you want to bet, if you taped and slo-mo'd that commercial, there are subliminal frames/fields thrown in there for every 2 seconds that say 'dont use drugs', 'your drug use kills babies' and 'osama has the 20$ you spent on that gram last week'...

 

[Clocker]

I dont think using oil is a necessity. I have to agree that so much infrastructure and political influenced has been established by oil companies that it becomes more of a "necessity" than it should be.

There are alternative energy sources. However, without more government support (Also more importantly the government stops impededs alternative resources because of pac money and other funds) innovation halts.

Please understand that I do not support drugs whatsoever nor i am against them. Also oil may have been a necessity at one time however I truly feel that alternative energy sources if pursued with great vigiliance can produce acceptable forms of energy.

Sincerely,
Clocker

Thats all I have to say on this

 

[Balt]

<< I dont think using oil is a necessity. I have to agree that so much infrastructure and political influenced has been established by oil companies that it becomes more of a "necessity" than it should be.

There are alternative energy sources. However, without more government support (Also more importantly the government stops impededs alternative resources because of pac money and other funds) innovation halts.

Please understand that I do not support drugs whatsoever nor i am against them. Also oil may have been a necessity at one time however I truly feel that alternative energy sources if pursued with great vigiliance can produce acceptable forms of energy.

Sincerely,
Clocker

Thats all I have to say on this >>



Well, my point was this: In the here and now, we are utterly dependent on oil. It is all well and good to make plans for the future, but right now we must be realistic. There is not going to be any invention, discovery, or breakthrough that will immediately make all of us drop our cars running on gasoline. The same is true for industry.

I look forward to having alternative sources of energy, and I hope they succeed completely. But whatever we discover, we will not simply flip a switch and immediately remove our dependence on oil. It will take time (perhaps decades) to phase out our oil consumption. Until that time, we can only hope to decrease our dependence, not completely remove it. Even as we decrease our consumption, however, we will still need it.

 

[gopunk]

not to nitpick, but the only ones i have seen like this say "you could be" not "you will" or "you are".

 

[PistachioByAzul]

This silly argument has been the best the people behind the war on drugs have yet to come up with as long as the war has been on.

 

[tweakmm]

Only buy KB. Everyone wins

 

[HappyPuppy]

If everybody grew their own toke the pot growers, smugglers, dealers would go out of business. It's a freaking weed, for crying out loud. It will grow just about anywhere.

 

[sandorski]

Anyone who knows their weed knows that Canadian(BC in particular) Hydroponic is the shaznet!

Yup, everytime the US government attempt to discourage drug use, they say something stupid that backfires on them. Remember "Just say no"? Afterwards drug use began to increase! Now they are using this tragedy, what happens when kids realize that the "terrorist" connection is as real as Santa Claus? Lies seldom do anybody any good, a government which uses lies is ensuring it's own destruction.