[mitchbert]

These commercials would be laugh-a-minute material if it weren't for the fact that a surprising number of people take this garbage as fact. In reality these are nothing but adaptations of scenes from "Reefer Madness."

1. Kids run down little girl on bike = stoned youth in car peeling away from the curb and does a hit and run on old man crossing the street.

2. Girl raped at party = girl, nearly comatose on sofa after a couple of tokes being groped by stoned friend.

3. Friend, in stoned haze, shoots friend = stoned hallucinating guy kills girl that is the love of his life.

You would think the people creating these ads would show a little more creativity, but lo, they have to go back to a thoroughly discredited propaganda piece from the 20's (30's? Can't quite remember. Saw it in university and well, umm...). It's one thing when a government engages in stupid and ultimately destructive policies. It's another altogether when they have to resort to insulting the nation's intelligence (even though they probably believe this rot) to do so.

[MrLeRoy]

Good catch!

[Dead Corpse]

1937. I've got the DVD with both RM and Cocaine Fever on it.

Hillarious. Be that as it may, it seems our Drug Czar is still taking all his cues from the Ghost of Anslinger. Next stop, blaming the plague on Jazz musicians. Or in todays paralance Pop/Rap/Rock stars.

[GSWarrior]

Unfortunately, it is parents take these commercials at face value.
My parents were in their 20s in the 1930s and, because they blamed my occasional pot use in high school on everything from my having to have braces to having discovered the joys of self-abuse, I can only assume they fell for the propaganda hook line and sinker.

[steve-b]

It occurs to be that the linkage to Ay-rab terrorists neatly parallels the original Drug War propaganda invoking images of colored men's dastardly designs on white wimminfolk.

[philman_36]

In reality these are nothing but adaptations of scenes from "Reefer Madness."
I agree. See my tag line.