Five anti-drug videos that are much, MUCH better to view when you’re high

There’s a divide in this country between those who believe pot is an innocuous party drug that makes everything hilarious (and even the worst fast food taste like angels’ tears), and the people on the other side who are old and boring.

Maybe that’s not fair, but let’s be honest: everybody knows that pot is a (relatively) harmless diversion drug.  Certainly, when you compare it to legal drugs like alcohol or nicotine, pot is the 98-pound weakling at the mind-altering pharmacy party.

So that’s why it’s so hilarious to watch the government spend millions of dollars, desperately trying to sell kids on the idea that pot is a dangerous destroyer of identity and ambition.  What’s even more hilarious is that in order to get the message out, they felt the need to create a series of “hip” ads to “grab” the attention of teenage pot users.

The central irony of this is that instead of creating a compelling argument why kids shouldn’t be smoking pot, they, instead, created a series of commercials that are completely awesome to watch when you’re high.

In order of awesomeness:

Five:

So, the point of this commercial is that pot makes you do nothing.  For a lot of people, THIS IS THE POINT.  But, past that, the three kids sitting on the magical couch that magically moves to wherever young non-pot-smokers are is completely trippy.

Fun on Pot Rating: 3.5

Four:

A kid stands in the middle of a typical teenager’s room.  He’s transformed by his pot-smoking friends (though, to be fair, by how fast they move, it’s more likely that they’re doing speed) into a variety of different looks.  Apparently, doing pot makes you malleable to peer pressure.  You know what also makes you malleable to peer pressure?  Being a teenager.

Fun on Pot Rating: 5

Three:

If you smoke pot, you’ll eventually wind up a big fat loser.  We’re shown this by a boy getting into his “pot cocoon”, gestating, and eventually emerging as, well, a big fat loser.  I would have preferred a subtle shout-out to us “Cocoon” fans by having Wilford Brimley crawl out of the cocoon, but that’s just me.

Fun on Pot Rating: 7

Two:

A talking dog tells his owner that he preferred when she was a straight; that he “misses his friend.”  I think I speak for every person everywhere when I say, where did that girl get her stuff and where can I get some?

Fun on Pot Rating: 9

One:

HehehehehehehehehehehuhuhuhuhahahahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Fun on Pot Rating: Infinite.

Have a commercial of your own?  Share it in the comments.

Clacked by Jay Black
on Oct 01, 2008 @ 10:00 EST5EDT