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Twenty years ago [1997-04-21], one of the most memorable ads of all time was launched, when Rachael Leigh Cook and her frying pan starting smashing up eggs in her infamous "This is Your Brain on Drugs" ad.
Today, Rachael Leigh Cook, her frying pan, and eggs are back but this time in a new ad that slams the drug war and its racist enforcement.
The new video, made by Green Point Creative, opens with Cook and her frying pan. She holds up a white egg and explains that it represents one of the millions of Americans who uses drugs but never gets arrested. She then picks up a brown egg and says, "This American is several times more likely to be charged with a drug crime." [Screenshot]
The animated ad, narrated by Cook, then shows what happens to the brown egg that is arrested and funneled through the criminal justice system. The ad highlights a range of harmful collateral consequences that result from drug arrest, including the loss of student financial aid, hindered job prospects and broken up families. The add[sic] contrasts the white egg's family that was never arrested, despite also using drugs.
The ad ends with Cook looking into the camera, holding her pan and [...] a smashed egg, and saying, "The war on drugs is ruining peoples' lives. It fuels mass incarceration, it targets people of color in greater numbers than their white counter parts. It cripples communities, it costs billions, and it doesn't work. Any questions?"
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 23 2017, @04:12PM (1 child)
Please note, neither the original ad, nor my comments, were directed solely at cannabis. The word "drugs" was used.
There is no doubt that overdosing on alcohol causes brain damage - along with kidney and liver damage. Alcohol is most certainly deadly. People can, and do, kill themselves in short order with alcohol poisoning, as well as poisoning themselves long-term, and taking years to die.
Sports can be deadly - but do sports really belong in this discussion? Adrenaline junkies may well be addicted to one sport or another, but they aren't drugs.
Let me rephrase what I think:
Moderate use of some recreational drugs may be alright, but becoming an addict to any drug is deadly, as well as stupid. Since cannabis is one of the least addictive drugs known to man, that almost puts cannabis out of this discussion - except for the fact that it is psychoactive, and commonly used for recreational purposes.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @07:14PM
Yeah, OMG it's used for recreation so it's just as bad as meth! Now give me my alcohol and sports!
Die in a fire you piece of shit.