Huh? A Super Bowl post? What does that have to do with marijuana?
Super Bowl XLIII? I'm cheering for the...
- TV Commercials (49%, 89 Votes)
- Arizona Cardinals (26%, 47 Votes)
- Pittsburgh Steelers (25%, 45 Votes)
Total Voters: 181
Loading ...Plenty. First of all, Pittsburgh’s Santonio Holmes is on the CelebStoner All-NFL Drug Bust Team. Second, I can find a marijuana angle on any story.
Look (President Obama has got me starting sentences with “Look…”), the Stash is all about building community, so the 25 million of us who use cannabis responsibly have a place “where everybody knows your name”. I know many of you, like me, will be gathering with friends to watch the big game. (Maybe not exactly like me, with two Volcanos, a 42″ and 73″ big screens, six varieties of freshly harvested Oregon homegrown, two varieties of hash, and at least four High Times Freedom Fighters of the Month in attendance. This gig does have some awesome fringe benefits!)
Stashers have suggested that NORML put an ad on the Super Bowl. Nice idea, but 30 seconds would cost us ten years of budget. We truly are grassroots, but sometimes it feels too many are spending cash on the grass and not nourishing the roots, ya dig? We’re going to get a PayPal tip jar widget worked up soon. If every pot smoker tipped $5 every time they bought a bag, we could afford a Super Bowl commercial. (If I’ve elicited any feelings of guilt you wish to assuage, feel free to join NORML online.)
But even if we had millions to shell out, there’s no guarantee TV would even take our ads.
Why not? Don’t they want the money? Sure, but as you watch the Super Bowl, play a little game with the TV ads. Count how many TV ads you see for alcohol or pharmaceuticals. When big companies buy ads from big media, it isn’t necessarily to sell you a product. Do you really think sales of Bud / Coors / Miller are going to change much based on a Super Bowl ad? If you are in medical need of Lipitor / Plavix / Celebrex, wouldn’t you buy those drugs whether they are advertised or not?
The reason companies buy these ads is to help control the conversation. For example, if Merck buys a bunch of ad time on NBC, NBC becomes beholden to that ad revenue, and perhaps the next time there is a Vioxx-like story coming, the suits start considering whether that will piss off the advertiser.
So I can very easily imagine that if we did have the money and did run the gauntlet of usual political, law enforcement, and media opposition to drug law reform messages, it would be very easy for Big Pharma and Big Alcohol to threaten to pull their ads from the rest of the year if the networks accepted the upstart “legalizers” one 30-second ad on one day of programming. Why would they want any conversation to be started that would provide people with a competitive product they can grow themselves?
That said, there are outlets. If you know of a local cable access show that would run our ads, we’ll get them a copy. If you’ve got an internet podcast or videocast and want to run our ads, we’ll get you a copy. You can embed the YouTube videos on your website. The voting on the ad contest starts on Monday, and we’re encouraging everyone to forward it along and make it a viral sensation.
Have a happy Super Bowl weekend! It’s double fun for me, because my birthday is on Saturday and the game is on Sunday. Go Cardinals!
I won do I get a invite to that Super superbowl party your throwin!?
well on second thought you better not,73′ big screen 2x hash 6x herbs-I wouldnt leave!
4 Republicans? Hmmm
Obama’s list of invited guests is as follows,are any 420 friendly ?
Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA)
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA)
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD)
Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL)
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)
Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA)
Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA)
Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ)
Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ)
Rep. Paul Hodes (D-NH)
Rep. Eleanor Holmes-Norton (D-DC)
Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA)
Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI)
I never watched that movie looks like another one for my DVD collection.
You’re missing the option for us that are fans of neither football nor commercials. The only superbowl I will be watching is a glass one.
We have a winnah! Drugs to the left, hookers to the right!
Tom Hanks in Bachelor Party
Ha! No, not Woody Allen, though now that I think about it, that’s a winning answer, too.
That one dude with the big thick glasses???? Im blanking on his name!!!!!!
I’m sorry, I’m only allowed one adoption, and I’ve had my eye on this 17-year-old Korean girl.
(Bonus points if you can name the Oscar winner suggested by this line.)
(Maybe not exactly like me, with two Volcanos, a 42? and 73? big screens, six varieties of freshly harvested Oregon homegrown, two varieties of hash, and at least four High Times Freedom Fighters of the Month in attendance. This gig does have some awesome fringe benefits!)
Addopt me Russ.
Having recently moved to Arizona, I too feel some love for the Cards.
But I’ll never let that trump the black and gold flowing from these here veins.
GL to all sports betters and tokers alike. Just a word of caution, there is an expected chicken wing shortage for this weekend. Stephen Colbert had an awesome report on it last night.
http://tinyurl.com/cp9wca
I don’t know. The Cards have been coming out and hittin’ people in da mouf. Yes, da mouf, and knockin’ loose some teefises. When I watched them gang up on Carolina, they looked pretty badass. And they handled Philly D pretty well.
But, them Steelers are fast in the flat. I don’t see quick dink-and-dunk slants working so well.
Ah, to see the Cards win a Super Bowl… I have a soft spot for underdogs. Cards 23, Steelers 21 when Pittsburgh’s kicker misses a makable gamewinner with 0:00 on the clock, and somewhere Scott Norwood feels a burden lifted from his shoulders.
Or probably not. My Super Bowl predictions are always wrong… except in 1997.
Should be a good game and its tough to call at this point. Even though Pitt has Deshea Townson (Alabama boy yaaaaaa) I see Cinderella here and the Cards somehow pulling this out.
Tough to go against Pitts D though……
GL Lane… Take the first half line, the steelers will lock down warner in the second half, IMO.
I’ll take the Cards (they are crazygood) and the TD. :)
Where’s the love for the Steel Curtain?!