The Drug Czar’s Latest Ads – Your Tax Dollars Hard at Work (even if “potheads” aren’t)
Friday, November 7th, 2008 at 10:12 am | By: Radical Russ
Americans went to the polls on Tuesday and overwhelmingly rejected the anti-marijuana scare tactics of the Drug Czar John Walters and his various allies at the state and local level. Nine out of ten marijuana initiatives passed, and the two big statewide initiatives, medical marijuana in Michigan and decrim in Massachusetts, got more votes that President-Elect Obama did.
Worried that the people in majorities greater than 60% are in support of marijuana law reform, the Drug Czar released the following youth anti-drug ad campaigns two weeks before election day:
(click thumbnails for full-size version of the print ad)
Burrito TasterBecome a Burrito Taster!
Start earning now! Why waste the best days of your life going to college when you can become a burrito taster. Money, power and jet packs are some of the benefits that a certified Burrito Taster enjoys. That, and all the Burritos You Can Handle! Restaurants, motels, clubs, theme parks, and space stations are just a few of the places that need experienced Burrito Tasters. EAT THE GOOD LIFE!!!
Hey, not trying to be your mom, but there aren’t many jobs out there for potheads.
Spend your days and nights as a certified COUCH SECURITY GUARD!
Can you handle excitement…cheese curls, leprechauns and sitting on a cushion for a LONG, LONG, time? Then maybe you have what it takes to become a COUCH SECURITY GUARD!
Few careers offer a person thrills AND rich rewards. It’s not a dream. A career like this can be yours. Even with no experience or a fancy college degree. Get the facts today and start sitting tomorrow.
Hey, not trying to be your mom, but there aren’t many jobs out there for potheads.
Channels aren’t going to change THEMSELVES!
Become a TV Remote Control Operator!
AWESOME! That’s the moneymaking power in being a remote control operator. It’s the business of your own that can be part- or full-time for quick and growing profits! No study-no training-just a few hours of practice and you are ready for pay, BIG PAY. You can be in business practically overnight.
Hey, not trying to be your mom, but there aren’t many jobs out there for potheads.
No jobs for potheads? Did they forget “Official Podcaster for NORML?”
Seriously, though, even the Drug Czar can’t keep his scare tactics straight anymore. Here he is frightening kids with the idea that cannabis consumers are too stoned to get jobs, yet on this page he is frightening businesses with the opposite idea:
Of the 16.6 million illicit drug users aged 18 or older in 2002, 12.4 million (74.6 percent) were employed either full or part time.
So about 75% of drug users managed to get jobs. 12.4 million jobs out there, and since about 80% of the “illicit drug users” are just marijuana smokers, then there are about 9.9 million working “potheads” (I’d venture that it’s greater than 10 million, since I believe cannabis consumers are more likely to hold down a job than a heroin addict or crack addict).
Has the Drug Czar ever eaten at a restaurant, seen a play, or attended a concert? If so, I guarantee you he’s interacted with plenty of employed cannabis consumers. We are doctors, lawyers, politicians, cops, teachers, firefighters, clergy, entrepreneurs, activists, artisans, and so much more.
Or has he followed the election on Tuesday? One former “pothead” just got the biggest job in the country. He takes over the job from a former “cokehead” and “pothead”, who beat out a former “pothead” in 2000 to get the job and beat another former ”pothead” in 2004 to keep it.
Topics: Drug Czar, National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, ONDCP
The only thing that unemploys a pothead is prohibition and zero tolerance policies in the workplace.
What do you expect from a bunch of hypocritical drunks? Their reign of terror is coming to an end.
[...] advantage which is most likely why half of them are still around. They advertise slogans such as “smoke pot and you can become a burrito taste tester” or “a couch potato remote co… They are basically implying that if you smoke pot you will amount to nothing and become a loser [...]
[...] advantage which is most likely why half of them are still around. They advertise slogans such as “smoke pot and you can become a burrito taste tester” or “a couch potato remote co… They are basically implying that if you smoke pot you will amount to nothing and become a loser [...]
[...] advantage which is most likely why half of them are still around. They advertise slogans such as “smoke pot and you can become a burrito taste tester” or “a couch potato remote co… They are basically implying that if you smoke pot you will amount to nothing and become a loser [...]
Radley Balko, The Agitator Blog and author of Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America. is compiling a list of successful marijuana smokers in response to the ONDCP’s campaign. If you are or know of admitted and successful cannabis user please add to this list and Digg it!