Partnership for a Drug-Free America: Suzie
PSA against drug use, Suzie’s story
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zachmasterzach says:
The main exception? Drug dealers in these ads are ususally black.
All I am pointing out is how these ads do little more than to warn the middle-class about the ‘evil’ working-class users they will probably never encounter. The ads also try to justify the US’s insanely long prison sentences for crack cocaine use (as opposed to other drugs, including powder.)
They are uninformative and serve only to pat their target audience on the back for being straight-laced. Do some research.
zachmasterzach says:
Also, I agree that part of the reason for criminalizing weed was to punish blacks (you meant to say ILLEGAL.)
However, if you look at more drug PSAs from the 80′s, many of them talk only about crack. Though drugs do affect all races and classes, crack use was limited mostly to poorer, working classes (which, in the 1980′s, meant more blacks.)
Yet, most of the people in the commercials (whether they are speaking to us, or are acting as the ‘user’ or someone affected by their use) are white.
zachmasterzach says:
I never said drugs didn’t affect people from all wakes of life, I just said they had a greater (negative) effect on inner-city minorities and the working classes. This is a fact.
Illicit drug use amongst blacks is at 10.1%, the highest % of any race.
The rate of drug use among the unemployed is over half that of people with full-time jobs.
Area-wise, Large Metropolitan areas have the highest % of users (8.5), with’Small Metropolitan’ (ie, Pittsburgh) coming in second.
yeah2boy says:
You are absolutely wrong. everyone from all classes do drugs. The only reason they are a problem is because minorities do them. Wake up and see the world. The reason Weed became legal was to make more reasons to put black people in jail. do some research
aboymadeofweed says:
@JourdansKandyLand just because it’s smoked through a bong doesnt make it weed homie…
JourdansKandyLand says:
wth? how does she get sent to the hospital from smoking weed?? weed doesn’t kill!!!
lura32000 says:
couldnt agree with u more
Blink182Hero says:
lol!
Mafiososupersikwitit says:
They idea of drug-free America is a good idea, drugs should be free
fascist says:
How did she die from a broken bong?
zachmasterzach says:
I love how these ads are always targeted to affluent, middle-class white suburbanites, when drugs were a problem that had a much greater effect on people in the cities, the lower classes, and with minorities.
SpamNapkin says:
probably a crack pipe
garyworkman says:
The largest study of its kind has unexpectedly concluded that smoking marijuana, even regularly and heavily, does not lead to lung cancer.
The new findings “were against our expectations,” said Donald Tashkin of the University of California at Los Angeles, a pulmonologist who has studied marijuana for 30 years.
“What we found instead was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect.”
nickrocker92 says:
Governement studies show that marijuana is harmful…BUT EVERY OTHER STUDY DONE BY A NON GOVERNMENT FUNDED OR GOVERNMENT AFFILIATED COMPANY SHOWS ITS ACTUALLY BENEFICIAL. No need for caps but i felt like it
lorenrb says:
true that. pot smoke isn’t processed either.
lorenrb says:
was there ever a point to this ad? apart from being funny?
420andsuch says:
yeah i got you but yeah haha just goes to show…even though you can get it pot doesnt have any effect on whether you want it or not
verxintRising says:
Shut the fuck up stupid commercial, cannabis can’t kill anyone.
I think I said this already but im gonna say it agian.
verxintRising says:
Yeah, but most pot dealers know people who deal harder shit. I could easily get some crack if I wanted to. But fuck that shit.
420andsuch says:
Those websites are from the government…of course their gonna say that marijuana is more unhealthy because they make laws against it, obviously they dont want it to be legal….secondly i smoke pot regularly (everyday for about a year now give or take about two weeks or so) and i mean common sense can tell you that pot smoke is way cleaner and smoother by the way it tastes….it tastes better and feels cleaner without a filter than cigarette smoke does with one
420andsuch says:
no most pot dealers deal strictly pot….
an97an says:
Marijuana is more carcinogenic then tobacco.
Even though people don’t usually smoke weed 5X a day it is still more carcinogenic then tobacco.
Sources:
(Double-u,Double-u,Double-u ) (D0t) nida(d0t)nih(d0t)gov/infofacts/marijuana(d0t)html
and
oehha(d0t)ca(d0t)gov/Prop65/docs_state/mjcrnr061909(d0t)html
420andsuch says:
pot is a natural thing that won’t hurt you…just like vegetables…natural from the ground…but harmless…not everything that is natural is harmless though….but pot is most definitely harmless
420andsuch says:
keep tryin man the waits worth it….shrooms are fucking great youll gain a higher consciousness man like you’ll finally realize what the fucks up with the world haha
Foylemite says:
may cause vomiting, dizzyness, loss of appetite, and in some cases death…but if you have a headache, depression, tooth ache, splinter, or small abrasion, consult your physician and ask him about the newest pharmaceutical breakthrough…. i think ill take my chances and burn one…thanks anyway…