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djnemo65 03-09-2009, 08:50 PM War On Drugs: US Drug Czar Targets Gaming Skills In Anti-Pot Ads (http://kotaku.com/5166985/us-drug-czar-targets-gaming-skills-in-anti+pot-ads)
OK, I haven't really smoked pot in a few years, mostly because I don't want to have anything in common with hippies, but I had to comment on this. The government, in a continued attempt to get the attention of today's coach potato youth, is advertising that smoking pot can impede your video game skills. Um, let me just say that this has NOT been my experience.
If you want to effectively deter pot smoking, tell the truth. Say that it causes you to eat unhealthy foods like poptarts, or watch cartoons well into your twenties, or hang out with an awkward posse of hippies and fake suburban gangstas, or drive around for hours listening to trance music, or, you know, spend all your time playing video games when you could be like reading or studying.
But pot is like video game steroids. It seriously makes you way better. I call ridiculous on this.
70Chip 03-09-2009, 09:07 PM War On Drugs: US Drug Czar Targets Gaming Skills In Anti-Pot Ads (http://kotaku.com/5166985/us-drug-czar-targets-gaming-skills-in-anti+pot-ads)
OK, I haven't really smoked pot in a few years, mostly because I don't want to have anything in common with hippies, but I had to comment on this. The government, in a continued attempt to get the attention of today's coach potato youth, is advertising that smoking pot can impede your video game skills. Um, let me just say that this has NOT been my experience.
If you want to effectively deter pot smoking, tell the truth. Say that it causes you to eat unhealthy foods like poptarts, or watch cartoons well into your twenties, or hang out with an awkward posse of hippies and fake suburban gangstas, or drive around for hours listening to trance music, or, you know, spend all your time playing video games when you could be like reading or studying.
But pot is like video game steroids. It seriously makes you way better. I call ridiculous on this.
Yeah. I had a roommate at college and he use to get like, you know, the big ziplock bags of weed. The ones your mother puts a spiral sliced ham into or something and no one could beat this guy at any video game. In the very early Madden game on Sega Genesis, he would sack your QB before you even knew the ball had been snapped. On Nintendo, I never saw him lose in RBI baseball and he played half the school. And, he could finish Contra without the 30 men cheat code.
ArtMonkDrillz 03-09-2009, 09:59 PM Obviously they've never seen the movie Grandma's Boy.
Dirtbag59 03-09-2009, 10:07 PM Stopping people from smoking pot is the biggest waste of money for our government. I mean lets look at the facts
- The gangs police go after profit highly from pot sales
- It cost way to much money to incarcerate someone for smoking pot.
- It's technically less harmful then alcohol and on a user basis cigarettes (meaning the fact that you smoke less in comparison to cigarettes makes it better).
Still I'm with you DJNemo. Despite smoking it in the past I definitely think that it's among the stupidest drugs you can use.
Of course with every other moron playing with an online handle including the words like reefer, 420, smokes, stoner, etc in their screen name it's no wonder they choose to go after video game players. Ironically though ads targeted at getting people to quit a particular substance just makes them more likely to go out and use after seeing an ad even when they're trying to quit. At least thats what market research tells us, so bravo more government money down the drain.
saden1 03-09-2009, 10:28 PM I'm currently making love to Marry Jane and playing Madden 09. I'm going to watch Family guy later on while I munch on Honey Bunch cereal...good times...American Dream shit. :cool-smil
Legalize it and let's wipe out the debt!
djnemo65 03-09-2009, 11:01 PM Well, since the rudiments of a legalize drugs debate are taking form - unintentionally on my part I swear - let me direct everyone to an economist editorial from this week, which I think lays out the case for legalization pretty convincingly. How to stop the drug wars | The Economist (http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13237193&source=most_commented)
Well, since the rudiments of a legalize drugs debate are taking form - unintentionally on my part I swear - let me direct everyone to an economist editorial from this week, which I think lays out the case for legalization pretty convincingly. How to stop the drug wars | The Economist (http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13237193&source=most_commented)
The war on drugs is clearly a colossal failure, the only thing it has succeeded at is wasting money and lives.
That Guy 03-09-2009, 11:09 PM didn't they need a breathe test or some way for cops to get proof of DUI before they can legalize it? I think that was one of the hurdles.
That Guy 03-09-2009, 11:14 PM The war on drugs is clearly a colossal failure, the only thing it has succeeded at is wasting money and lives.
kinda hard to fight a war when you're not allowed to go after the manufacturers or wholesalers...
i mean, bust the kid on the street is great, but the guys pumping out the major narco product already got paid 6 links ago, so it doesn't dis-incentivize the production chain, only the local guy.
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