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[–] thingAmaBob@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Can’t wait for the epic memes promoting weed

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

zack morris told me theres no hope with dope right before he narced on a nice guy for responsibly doing weed in his own house and then drove drunk and lied about it to his dad though

[–] DerArzt@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

🎶Zack Morris is trash🎶

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 6 days ago (3 children)

im from the future.

it did not work out like they hoped

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago

I believe you.

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I believe you.

I want to believe you but I have a feeling it's a honey pot

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Next, these people are going to start going after heavy metal and rap music again.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Heavy Metal and Rap Music? They hurdled right over and landed on Any Amount of Dancing and Suffragettes.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

They're this close to warning that jazz causes integration

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 points 5 days ago

This reminded me about year 2000 or so when we seemingly did not have any (relatively) serious problems and so our tax money was spent on stuff like this

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Warning: avoiding marijuana can lead to unnecessary stress.

[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

Im gonna smoke weed even harder.

[–] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 days ago

Wake up babe, Reefer Madness 2 is about to drop

[–] Bot@sub.community 1 points 5 days ago

Hi crackheads :)

[–] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 180 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's weed. Who cares? Do a campaign about prescription opiates or meth or something useful.

Do a campaign about prescription opiates or meth or something useful.

Poking at the opioid crisis would be worthwhile subversion of things.

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 87 points 1 week ago

No see they get kickbacks from those so it's ok

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 118 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If the DEA wanted to warn people of a real danger on the streets, they'd warn people about cops. Do you hsve ANY idea how many people cops kill every year? Yeah, me neither, because they don't publish the real numbers. They don't take accountability, they just hide everything.

[–] NobodyElse@sh.itjust.works 61 points 1 week ago

Not just that, but the most dangerous thing about marijuana comes from it being illegal. A cop catching someone with pot will do more damage to their life than the weed ever could.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 68 points 1 week ago (1 children)
  • XXX WARNING EXTREME DANGER XXX — Marijuana can make you feel good, but may temporarily impair your ability to safely operate heavy machinery. [illustration of a forklift plunging into the abyss, the driver looking relaxed and happy; it hits the ground and explodes]

  • MARIJUANA CAN MAKE YOU HIGH [bored teenagers at a party, one young man clearly enjoying himself too much sitting near the TV laughing at The Flintstones]

  • WARNING: MARIJUANA MIGHT NOT GIVE YOU A HANGOVER — It might feel like you're getting away with something but that just makes it TOO EASY to do it AGAIN [dude with a 420 T-shirt looking smug amidst some still-comatose alcohol drinkers]

For $5000 in advance from the DEA I'll develop any one of these premises into a professional-quality educational video.

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[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 65 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Beware the DEA kids. They knew about all the oxy all along. They knew about all the hydro. They knew every single major shipment going to Florida, Kentucky and wherever else this whole time. They knew about the opioid epidemic and they rubber stamped every shipment and quota request for the people making the drugs.

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[–] Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Your casual lawbreaking will be used against you.

This is exactly what had me scared straight for the longest time. It's not the drug, it's the system that punishes use of the drug that's the real threat.

The fact that ex-convicts (people that have paid their debt to society) aren't a protected class in the hiring process is beyond me. At least insofar as non-violent offenses go, there's no cause to throw someone away like this. This goes especially considering the current state of political affairs around here.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

"Corrective Rape" as a trope within the American prison system is probably the darkest part of this cartoon.

I would like to once again congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I cannot see a single reason why this would backfire.

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dea once again proclaiming how completely out of touch with reality they are.

idiots.

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 37 points 1 week ago

Cannabis will never be as harmful as alcohol. This really outlines their intentions and how little they actually care about harm to children.

[–] SleepyBear@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (5 children)

-looking for stories about how marijuana use has negatively impacted your life

"I-I just kept eating. Just kept going. A whole family sized bag of doritos. OH THE HORROR!!"

[–] DeLacue@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Alcohol is worse for you than weed. But alcohol is far more harmful for you than many people realise. Being not as bad as Alcohol does not make it good or harmless. However, after many years of very overblown propaganda about the threat of weed the pendulum has swung the other way and no many people falsely believe all talk of the damage weed can do to be propaganda. Here's a good video explaining the topic; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBRaI0ZeAf8&t=661s&ab_channel=Kurzgesagt%E2%80%93InaNutshell

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (5 children)

That's not even a weed thing, that's ultra processed food designed from day 1 to be as addictive as possible....

Which is totally cool and totally legal

Not like it's a plant humans have used for thousands of years or something

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[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 34 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This seems perfectly reasonable. I'm sure the people wearing DARE shirts will take this seriously and help out.

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[–] StayDoomed@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where are the DOGE bros for this government waste?

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Nope sorry the best Trump can do is pardon a single drug dealer. The Libertarians must be thrilled at their art of the deal.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Beautiful

what better way to promote 420 Day than to try to market 'Anti-420 Day' and tell supporters how to cancel the day and send out warnings instead

they just boosted 420 day by 500%

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[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Challenge accepted:

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago
[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you smoke enough marijuana you can hear all the complicated stuff drummer Jeff Porcaro isn't playing on the song Africa by Toto.

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[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Students would be eligible for a $25 Amazon gift card for a personal video, $35 for a group video and $50 for a “professionally produced educational video or skit with adult sponsor supervision.”

And no content is allowed that “depicts, imitates, or promotes the possession or consumption of any THC product.”

“DO NOT IMITATE THE USE OF THC/MARIJUANA OR PARAPHERNALIA OF ANY KIND, EVEN AS A JOKE,” it emphasizes.

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