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PSAs for potheads
We've written a lot about anti-drug ads that make you WANT to take drugs, so I figure I ought to share the good news as well. A couple of new animated spots aimed at discouraging marijuana smoking are damn good. The production is decidedly low-key and badly drawn in a charming, Brad-Neely sort of way.
In my favorite of the two, a girl gets bored with her stoner boyfriend and flies off with an alien who doesn't care for pot. In the other, a puppy is saddened by the inability of his pot-smoking human to quit and get a life. Reminds me of Todd Barry's idea for a perfect world: one where pot is legal, but potheads are not.
Hard to believe that these spots came from the Office of National Drug Control Policy, which has produced more than its share of hackneyed, misguided PSAs.
Like all anti-drug spots, these have inspired a fair share of parodies, one of which is funny enough that you'd almost think it's not by a pothead.
(Via Slate)
Posted by carrie on 06/19/2007 | Permalink
