This article in the Joplin Globe eventually gets to a discussion of government-funded anti-drug commercials. The take-away for me:
The skyrocketing obesity rate among young people is a much more dangerous societal problem than marijuana, but if ads portrayed young people who eat too much as negatively as they do kids who choose to smoke weed, people would be outraged.
Imagine a little boy on an abandoned street looking around for someone who isn’t there, and then a stentorian voiceover saying: “Go ahead, tubby, tell your little brother you forgot him because you were too busy stuffing your fat face. Don’t be disgusting; live above the calories.”
I’ve never done drugs but I’ve had some very public struggles with Krispy Kreme. I just wish someone had been there for me with the message, “This is your brain, this is your brain partially hydrogenated. Any questions?”