NORML’s Freedom of Information Act request on the “Stoners in the Mist” video I blogged about on Friday.  Let’s just find out how much taxpayer money our government used to insult and stereotype you.

REQUEST FOR DOCUMENTS PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT

Dear Action Officer:

This is a request for records from your agency under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. Sect. 552, as amended and as implemented by your office.

Materials Requested

1) Contracts and total expenditures to create, host and maintain the online video “Stoners of the Mist” found at ONDCP’s “Above The Influence” webpage:

http://www.abovetheinfluence.com/stoners/Default.aspx

http://www.abovetheinfluence.com/stoners/transcript-intro.aspx

2) All letters, emails or Freedom of Information Act requests from the public to ONDCP regarding “Stoners in the Mist”

3) All media news releases or press material published or broadcast to promote “Stoners in the Mist”

4) The name of the ONDCP employee(s) who approved the video for its public health and scientific content

5) All future expenses or anticipated costs associated with ONDCP broadcasting “Stoners in the Mist” video (i.e., a third party under contract to maintain the webpage or anti-cannabis promotion beyond the launch date)

The latest prejudicial stereotyping of cannabis consumers comes as part of the ONCDP’s “Above the Influence” ad campaign. It is a website and interactive Flash video called “Stoners in the Mist”, and it copies the look and feel of a National Geographic-style safari documentary, complete with a white-mustachioed “explorer” in a pith helmet introducing us to the hunt for his elusive prey:

Stoners in the Mist | Fun | AboveTheInfluence.com

It is a beautiful day. And while most people are out and about enjoying friends, activities, life in general…the creature that we seek is sedentary, uninspired, and remarkably unmotivated. My associate and I are in search of the lair of a magnificent specimen: the mature stoner.

Oh, goody! I wonder which mature, sedentary, uninspired, unmotivated stoner he’s seeking out? Ricky Williams, that former NFL running back? That guy is so lazy, what with his two-a-day workouts, yoga, and 3% body fat. Willie Nelson? Yup, there’s a mature stoner who never amounted to anything. Montel Williams? Talk about amotivational syndrome, hosting a TV show and running an MS foundation! Too bad Carl Sagan is dead, because there you had one completely uninspired stoner.

In this interactive feature, we will explore and attempt to explain the social interactions and natural responses of this elusive and baffling creature. I am your host, Barnard Puck and this… is Stoners in the Mist.

Apparently, “Dr.” Puck and his assistant have no problem being peeping Toms. Well, this should be fun. More screenshots and offensive stereotypes follow after the jump…

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