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Last Sunday, one of the networks aired the most insidious television advertisement yet presented by the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). In short, the ad (which can be found at www.mediacampaign.org) implies that if you smoke marijuana you will act stupidly, and this could include activities such as shooting your best friend with your dad’s handgun...
...second ad, two teenage boys—we’ll call them Bob and Frank—are sitting around in what is supposed to be the office of one of their fathers. One of them is smoking marijuana in a bong while the other sits at the desk and makes stoned remarks...
...Blaming marijuana for America’s accidental gun shootings when the ONDCP can’t cite a single specific instance as evidence seems pretty silly. I called up the ONDCP and asked if the horrific scenario presented by the ad has ever actually happened. Spokesperson Jennifer Devallance said, “You know those are actors, right...
...went on to justify the ad by saying, “There are many, many instances of violence that has occurred either intentionally or accidentally with marijuana or other drugs.” True, but how many actual deaths are there each year resulting from marijuana use? There are no deaths resulting from overdose because it is physically impossible, but there are probably accidental deaths from people who died in accidents and also happened to be using marijuana. In the nine million person New York metro area, there were no deaths in 2000 where marijuana was the only drug involved...
...present such an implausible scenario when it could have shown the teens drinking alcohol or snorting cocaine—two drugs which lead to thousands more drug-related deaths per year than marijuana? It’s because marijuana is by far the most popular illegal drug among teens today and its use is on the rise. The Bush administration has foolishly decided to target teen marijuana users and waste billions of dollars each year to enforce what is essentially a harmless drug...