anti-*insert vice here* aren't anything new.
But it seems that lately they are getting more and more popular.
Above the influence commercials are seen on Nickelodeon and MTV at every hour of the day, and as they get more airtime, they get full of more bullshit.

Xpoz has fucking commercials with footage of people aged anywhere from 13- 21 years of age stating that you're stupid if you let yourself be controlled by tobacco companies and you shouldn't smoke just to fit in.
...Those seem like valid points.
Oh wait, did I mention that their pitch is "the smokefree scene in las vegas"
That's right, it's a fucking scene now...
Before you could just NOT smoke, but now not smoking is a culture. Which completely diminishes the whole "not doing things just to fit in" purpose doesn't it?

The average Xpoz LV follower looks like this:


"I'm just being myself, man."


To avoid letting themselves be controlled by tobacco corporations (which I can only guess is a statement aimed towards nicotine's addictiveness) they choose to instead let their friends and taste in music control them.

Those clothe and piercings really show you're an independent thinker...retard.



Another really horrible one is Above the influence.
The name says it all. They tell you to stay "above the influence" while influencing you to not do drugs.
Their anti-drug tactics consist of portraying anyone who smokes marijuana as gangsters, slackers, and of course idiots with poor decision making.
In the commercials the Non-drug user is usually a regular looking teenager who is offered a joint, blunt, pipe what the fuck ever with weed in it, then they have some sort of inner-conflict where they decide whether they should or shouldn't have a hit.
When they decide not to smoke it, they walk away as if they're fucking heroes or something.
On the other hand when they do smoke it, they end up with some sort of physical or mental retardation, and disappointing everyone around them.
Here are a couple examples:


The shit was laced with pcp or ghb or something.


All things people do... When addicted to heroin or meth. If you're stealing from your mom, then something completely unrelated to marijuana is wrong with you. Also, if your friends care that you're smoking a bowl, then fuck them. They should find their own rides home.



In the midst of portraying people who smoke weed as miscreants with mental deficiencies, they forgot to mention that very important and successful people in history smoked marijuana.
Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson had Hemp plantations.
As in they grew that shit, and not only for use in clothe. They're both quoted in saying that they smoked it.
More people who smoke weed include: Al Gore, Carl Sagan, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Timothy Leary, and George Washington, among many many others.
So, for anyone who has known a person who just smoked weed and sat around eating all your food because "it made them dumb and lazy".
Chances are, they were just over-indulgent and naturally lazy bastards, and you're the dumb one for believing it.


I'm not advocating drug use or saying that it's not harmful. I just think a decision to do something shouldn't be influenced by anything, especially anti-drug commercials. They're called "anti-drug" because they are against it, and they're going to try and get you to be against it too, by any means necessary. That includes lying.