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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Challenge accepted:

[–] [email protected] 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%

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Streisand Effect, is the term you may be looking for. :-D

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What is 'adult sponsor supervision'?? Lol

[–] kambusha 3 points 1 week ago

Here's 5 bucks. Don't get in trouble!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Anti-DEA day for people on the right side of history

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Anyone have popcorn?

I cannot fathom any possible way this could go off the rails.

What a great idea!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Remember all those idiots who thought this administration was actually going to make good on their promise to legalize it?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey kids, remember, Ted Nugent never smoked pot.

Um. So, there’s that.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Yeah, he just literally shit his pants to dodge the draft, and then wrote a song about how much he likes banging 13 year old girls! Both Trump approved activities! He's good to go!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I thought there was an executive order today or yesterday (can't keep up with the implosion into the fourth reich) that any org that receives money from the state can't make political statements? And wtf would this be then?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

It's gonna happen!

It's Gonna Happen!

IT'S GONNA HAPPEN!

Um, guys, it turned out to be kind of the opposite of what we expected.

[–] ThePantser 7 points 1 week ago

I hope the anti weed messages are at least funny so my legally high ass has something to laugh about.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Hey Fellow Kids (Steve Buscemi)

Don't believe that hype that weed is cool because it's for fools!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I'm pro-legalization (because criminalization does much more harm than good) but why are you all acting like this is a bad thing? Especially considering that the campaign is specifically advocating against YOUTH consumption of marijuana? We can all agree that children and adolescents shouldn't consume marijuana, right? Just because it shouldn't be criminalized doesn't change the fact that weed is a habit-forming drug that impairs memory, concentration, and reflexes. It absolutely CAN be dangerous.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, it's pretty clear that this is a way for the DEA to get other people to spread propaganda for them. They know the idea is unpopular so they're paying children to do their dirty work for them. They know there are at least a million kids on Instagram who will just do this for a free gift card regardless and they're trying to exploit them.

Also it absolutely reeks of desperation. They're trying to force a viral movement in the most inorganic and insincere way possible. It's like if an unpopular teacher offered to pay her students to go around telling their friends about the benefits of doing extra homework.

And it's worth mentioning one more time, they're exploiting children to spread their lies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What lies? What "dirty work?" They're not giving the kids a script. The assignment is to either make an educational video about why young people shouldn't use THC (do you not agree that minors shouldn't use THC?), OR share a personal anecdote about how marijuana use has affected them or someone they know.

You say it sounds desperate, but to me it looks like a way to catch kids' attention and get more young people thinking about this. Submit a skit, get a gift card, be engaged in the conversation. Maybe learn something new. What's so exploitative about that?

Is it automatically "propaganda" to suggest that there's anything unsafe about marijuana or that kids shouldn't use it?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

It's not that this is a "bad thing". It's wildly ineffective, hypocritical, and a waste of resources when compared to other more pressing issues that they are doing nothing about. Thus, mockery.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

What’s a youth? Under 21 in idiot land?

[–] ohellidk 5 points 1 week ago

Cool, I'll have something to giggle at while I'm stoned!

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