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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24 2017, @12:19PM
Has spawned the privatized prison industry. This industry wants to maximize profits, employs armies of lobbyists to ensure they have bodies.
Sorry to tell you, but when a problem becomes a basis of an industry, it is a sure one sign that the problem is there to stay, unless there appears another, stronger, industry, which has opposite goal. In this case, decriminalizing drugs would quickly create a powerful industry block with a business model of enslaving masses through addiction, basically an extension to alcohol, tobacco, sugar (and salties), and betting industries, and they would probably come to an agreement with private incarceration industry to somehow provide substitute patsies to keep the prisons full. What would become another target of "War on ..." series, I can't predict, but copyright violation seems like an easy candidate, as it is another unsolvable problem with history of steadily ramping up penalty policy.