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Pro-marijuana/Anti-alcohol Video at NASCAR's Brickyard 400 Update Video Add Snuffed

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unokitty

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"Less harmful than alcohol, and time to treat it that way." (Links to article)

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Outside the NASCAR Brickyard 400 in Indianapolis, the same track that hosts the famed Indianapolis 500, Marijuana Policy Project, the nation's largest pro-marijuana legalization advocacy group, has purchased space to air – dozens of times over the weekend – a video that pushes the theme that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol.

... While it's made to look like a beer ad, its tone sounds anti-alcohol. Unlike beer, a narrator in the video says, marijuana has "no calories," "no hangovers" and, the ad says, "it's not linked to violence or reckless behavior."
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Sponsor: Marijuanaissafer.org

Four questions

Anyone else find a pro-marijuana video designed to resemble a beer commercial oblique?

Anyone else find the choice of venue (NASCAR) incongruent?

Are NASCAR fans secretly stoners?

Other comments?

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Pot Add outside Indy race snuffed out
A 30-second Marijuana Project Policy video that referred to pot as "the new beer" appeared for several hours Friday before it was pulled from a portable screen across from Indianapolis Motor Speedway...

"We in no way support marijuana at family events," the spokesman said. "We didn't expect this ad to be interpreted the way it did. We don't want anything to do with it anymore."

Marijuana Policy Project spokesman Mason Tvert said his group paid $2,200 for the ad.... "I certainly hope we get our $2,200 back," Tvert said. "We think it's rather hypocritical for these folks to pull an ad highlighting the relative safety of marijuana compared to alcohol, yet welcome with open arms the copeus amount of alcohol use taking place on the premises."

... Recreational use of marijuana was legalized in Colorado and Washington last year, but Indiana appears to be a long way from that. In the last year, three Hoosier senators have introduced bills or resolutions regarding the potential loosening of pot restrictions, but none have gained traction.
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Apparently, I wasn't the only person to find the add oblique.

Nonetheless, I'd encourage the Hoosiers to get their laws caught up to those of Colorado and Washington.

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Meh.

My personal Opinion/Take:

I'm very much anti-smoking anything. Makes you smell bad, breath, teeth etc all suffer. I don't see the point in it and for the most part I CANNOT stand the culture associated with it. I still fail to see how inhaling (talking about SMOKING) smoke does not affect you adversely in any way.

As far as alcohol goes I only drink once and a blue moon and I do it because I find the drink tastes good. Jack and coke? Margarita on the rocks? Crown and 7? Irish Rootbeer? All taste awesome to me.

People will be idiots in either section and that can't be stopped. Drunkards/people that are obsessed with drinking are annoying, as are pot-heads/People who smoke MJ and feel the need to tell everyone (Hey I think there are a couple of those on this forum 😉 ). Crack heads are fucking scary though...
 
Actually Nascar has a very strict substance abuse stance/rules and many Nascar fans support their policy so I think this will fall on deaf ears.
 
unokitty said:
Are NASCAR fans secretly stoners?
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Obviously yes.
"dude they're driving in a circle!"
*hours later*
"maybe the drivers think they'll escape the circle if they keep driving long enough"
*5 hours later*
"remember that time we saw a bunch of cars driving in a circle? that reminded me of the death circle ants sometimes do"
 
Londo_Jowo said:
Actually Nascar has a very strict substance abuse stance/rules and many Nascar fans support their policy so I think this will fall on deaf ears.
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I thought that was curious as well. Nascar's popularity is very much cultural, oriented toward southern, where attitudes toward marijuana are the most negative. That might be the point. Perhaps the lobby group funding this feels that they're just wasting money preaching to the choir if they target more socially liberal segments of the population.
 
BlitzPuppet said:
Meh.

My personal Opinion/Take:

I'm very much anti-smoking anything. Makes you smell bad, breath, teeth etc all suffer. I don't see the point in it and for the most part I CANNOT stand the culture associated with it. I still fail to see how inhaling (talking about SMOKING) smoke does not affect you adversely in any way.

As far as alcohol goes I only drink once and a blue moon and I do it because I find the drink tastes good. Jack and coke? Margarita on the rocks? Crown and 7? Irish Rootbeer? All taste awesome to me.

People will be idiots in either section and that can't be stopped. Drunkards/people that are obsessed with drinking are annoying, as are pot-heads/People who smoke MJ and feel the need to tell everyone (Hey I think there are a couple of those on this forum 😉 ). Crack heads are fucking scary though...
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Please note: It's been proven that smoking, in regards to cannabis, really doesn't adversely affect you in anyway unless you extremely abuse it for long periods of time. No damage to lung function, etc. Most you will get is a sore throat from taking too many bong rips in one day. I equate that to getting indigestion from eating to much.
 
woolfe9998 said:
I thought that was curious as well. Nascar's popularity is very much cultural, oriented toward southern, where attitudes toward marijuana are the most negative. That might be the point. Perhaps the lobby group funding this feels that they're just wasting money preaching to the choir if they target more socially liberal segments of the population.
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This is exactly what I think is the motive as well. There are plenty of stoners who love NASCAR, and maybe the people at MPP think these ads will open up a dialog between them and the NASCAR fans that are diametrically opposed to legalization. You can't effectively change people's minds on an ingrained issue anonymously, it takes face to face interaction to chip away at these things. "Oh, my good friend that I've known for years smokes weed every day and he is so normal I didn't even know it. Maybe I need to rethink my stance that weed turns everyone that uses it into a worthless piece of shit."
 
dank69 said:
This is exactly what I think is the motive as well. There are plenty of stoners who love NASCAR, and maybe the people at MPP think these ads will open up a dialog between them and the NASCAR fans that are diametrically opposed to legalization. You can't effectively change people's minds on an ingrained issue anonymously, it takes face to face interaction to chip away at these things. "Oh, my good friend that I've known for years smokes weed every day and he is so normal I didn't even know it. Maybe I need to rethink my stance that weed turns everyone that uses it into a worthless piece of shit."
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Yeah that is valid, but I think the point is more general. The south, which is where NASCAR enjoys the highest popularity, lags behind the rest of the nation in reforming MJ laws. They're trying to tackle the issue in those states by influencing public opinion. Obviously the most resistant will tune out, but there are going to be fence sitters in those states and those are the people they are looking to target.
 
woolfe9998 said:
I thought that was curious as well. Nascar's popularity is very much cultural, oriented toward southern, where attitudes toward marijuana are the most negative. That might be the point. Perhaps the lobby group funding this feels that they're just wasting money preaching to the choir if they target more socially liberal segments of the population.
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Attitudes in the South are just more bifurcated, with more clinging to "traditional values" of persecution & intolerance in general. The people on the other side of the question are more normal.

Southern boys like to get high as much as anybody else. They just pay a higher price for it if busted. Huge amounts of MJ are cultivated throughout the Appalachia & Arkansas hill country as a cash crop. In that respect, it has supplanted moonshine production to no small degree.
 
A little misleading title. As nascar has nothing to do with it.

As far as the ad, well that's just freaking awesome lol. Well, I pretty much agree with it.
 
Attitudes down here are changing. Although most of the "family values" crowd that controls our state houses down here are stuck in the era of Reefer Madness, I would wager that even our rednecks toke up as much as the general population. They just don't admit to it publicly as they might elsewhere. We have some strange issues about appearances. Efforts like this will eventually bring us kicking and screaming into a more responsible drug policy. It will just take longer.
 
MovingTarget said:
Attitudes down here are changing. Although most of the "family values" crowd that controls our state houses down here are stuck in the era of Reefer Madness, I would wager that even our rednecks toke up as much as the general population. They just don't admit to it publicly as they might elsewhere. We have some strange issues about appearances. Efforts like this will eventually bring us kicking and screaming into a more responsible drug policy. It will just take longer.
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It's about roles-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role

The legacy of slavery & loss has cast very rigid roles on both sides of the racial divide, roles that have been repeated generationally for 150 years.

It's the same wrt any sort of social change. Keeping up appearances is essential to all the roles being played. Changing that is hard.
 
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