"The federal government and the ONDCP have chosen to ignore evidence suggesting that the methods being used in the war on drugs are not effective," the report says. "[T]he federal government has become so obsessed with marijuana use that it is spending money unwisely.
"The government has thrown more than $1 billion at a campaign that has only succeeded in increasing the number of teenage marijuana users," the report states, noting that reviews of the media campaign have found that it often encourages - rather than discourages - cannabis use among viewers.
We know they are lying and find most of their TV ads more amusing than anything else. The ONDCP commercials never contain any facts or realistic scenarios, because there aren't any that really support their claims. So they make up ads about teenage girls that smoke pot and become pregnant, or another teenager that apparently made a hat out of ground beef after smoking a joint (he may have some other issues aside from marijuana use that should be looked into...). The ground beef ad is probably the best I've seen because it ends in the worst possible effect of marijuana use...ARREST.
Citizens Against Government Waste issued a similar critique of the ONDCP last year, calling the agency a "federal wasteland" that fails to show objective results.
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Making a hat out of ground beef? That's a real commercial? Is that on YouTube? I need to see that.
It's a print ad, which can be found here:
http://www.humans.com/pages/images/potfacts.jpg
To say the ONDCP isn't useful is not entirely correct: it is useful...in acting as a unregistered lobbying group whose only real purpose is to protect and further the economic interests of DrugWarriors. In this capacity, it has served flawlessly, and will no doubt continue to do so, at least until the US is forced into further resource allocations needed to prosecute the Iraq War.
Psst... you need to fix your link on the words "reviews of the media campaign". The URL in that link leads to a school website that requires a username and password. But that address is just redirecting to the real article. (Note that the URL has the word "redir" in it, followed by a new URL.) The website you're trying to link to is "http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6898".
But good article! This is all a lot of fun to read.
Sorry, I was distracted by that link. I have to say: the part about arrest is a great point! According to the ONDCP itself, the worst effect of marijuana is the ONDCP! Now if only everyone could stop smoking, we would finally be able to rid the world of that great scourge upon humanity, the ONDCP.
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