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Adweek reports:
There's a long and not-very-proud tradition of anti-drug advertising that gets ridiculed for missing the mark with young audiences. Australia's New South Wales government just added a classic new entry to that hall of shame with #StonerSloth, a campaign designed to shame teens who get high--but who are finding the ads hilariously delightful instead.
In three short videos, marijuana has turned teens into giant sloths--and the metaphor is made literal, as the kids are actually depicted as giant hairy beasts with long, curved claws. Socially, they're utterly useless. All they can do is moan, since they're so high. And they can't take tests at school, make small talk at parties, or--most comically, if unintentionally so--even pass the salt at dinner.
[...] The campaign is so cartoony and weird that teens, rather than learning any lessons from it, are embracing it as one big joke. There are already parody videos, endless Twitter jokes--and even a "Pass the salt" sloth T-shirt for sale.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 28 2015, @12:54AM
Let me guess, drugs cure all mental illness?
Don't know why I expected anything less but the most outrageous rejection of society from the site of people who were too esoteric, nutball, and pinko for slashdot.
But there's a big difference between theraputic use of psychedelics and the abuse of marijuana.
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Monday December 28 2015, @01:12AM
Let me guess, drugs cure all mental illness?
Why was that your guess?
Don't know why I expected anything less but the most outrageous rejection of society from the site of people who were too esoteric, nutball, and pinko for slashdot.
You first started by saying it was but a guess, but then you act like you have confirmed that it is true?
There are different types of mental illnesses and the effects these sorts of drugs have varies from individual to individual, so the idea that the mentally ill should be specifically barred from using marijuana is just silly. Even if you take into account particular mental illnesses, the reliability of the social sciences is sketchy at best, and the government really has no business interfering so deeply in the matter of what individuals decide to put into their own bodies to the point where you need background checks just to get some drugs.