DEA Promotes 'Anti-420 Day' Contest For Young People To 'Flood' Instagram With Marijuana Warnings
DEA Promotes 'Anti-420 Day' Contest For Young People To 'Flood' Instagram With Marijuana Warnings
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is promoting an “Anti-420 Day” campaign that’s recruiting students to send short videos warning their peers about marijuana use. In a bulletin that was distributed on Tuesday, DEA’s JustThinkTwice.com site shared details about the campaign, which is being ru...
It's weed. Who cares? Do a campaign about prescription opiates or meth or something useful.
No see they get kickbacks from those so it's ok
Do a campaign about prescription opiates or meth or something useful.
Poking at the opioid crisis would be worthwhile subversion of things.
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.
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.
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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]
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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]
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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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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.
Goddamned right, our government threw its own citizens under the bus so pharmaceutical companies could make another billion. Then imprisoned the people who got addicted.
they rubber stamped every shipment and quota request for the people making the drugs.
I don't have trouble believing this could be the case, but can you link some evidence?
So I'm out of the business now and quota guidelines have changed to a quarterly system (?) so i could be talking out my ass.
Rubber stamped might be over stating but shipment reports from registered manufacturers are reported, audited and archived for a long time. Records of shipments are constantly monitored between the distribution centers. How much active ingredient was also explicitly decided by the DEA iirc. So if a manufacturer needed to increase it's output of a schedule 2 narcotic by a significant amount it must request the additional quota and it then goes through an approval process.
To go a step further and show just how significant quota is let me give you an example:
You have a shipment of product ready to go. Certificates of Exceptions/Assay/whatever paperwork you need to release. It's been transitioned to the distribution center. You then find something that impacts that material and it needs to come back to the manufacturing (gmp) area. Once that comes back into the facility and then leaves again it will count against your quota. If 100kg of active leaves twice it's 200kg as far as the DEA is concerned and you will have to destroy the left over 100kg you were provided and did not use.
Your casual lawbreaking will be used against you.
"Corrective Rape" as a trope within the American prison system is probably the darkest part of this cartoon.
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.
I would like to once again congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs
I cannot see a single reason why this would backfire.
I can think of 420
dea once again proclaiming how completely out of touch with reality they are.
idiots.
Cannabis will never be as harmful as alcohol. This really outlines their intentions and how little they actually care about harm to 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!!"
I like marijuana and am in favor of legalizing it but lets not pretend its completely harmless. For example, tenagers should not be using it since it will interfere with their developing brains.
I do agree that this campaign by the DEA could focus on more destructive drugs, like alcohol for example. Not to mention the opiods...
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–InaNutshell
This seems perfectly reasonable. I'm sure the people wearing DARE shirts will take this seriously and help out.
Those bootlickers will believe anything, I bet you could convince them water was dangerous if you made them think the DEA said it.
You must not be American. Adults wearing DARE shirts are not bootlickers for the DEA. They wear it ironically.
Where are the DOGE bros for this government waste?
Nope sorry the best Trump can do is pardon a single drug dealer. The Libertarians must be thrilled at their art of the deal.
Can’t wait for the epic memes promoting weed
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
🎶Zack Morris is trash🎶
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%
Streisand Effect, is the term you may be looking for. :-D
Challenge accepted:
im from the future.
it did not work out like they hoped
I believe you.
I believe you.
I want to believe you but I have a feeling it's a honey pot
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.
What is 'adult sponsor supervision'?? Lol
Here's 5 bucks. Don't get in trouble!
Anti-DEA day for people on the right side of history
Next, these people are going to start going after heavy metal and rap music again.
Heavy Metal and Rap Music? They hurdled right over and landed on Any Amount of Dancing and Suffragettes.
They're this close to warning that jazz causes integration
I'd be flooding Instagram with pro-420 Day memes, if I had an account.
i dont even smoke weed but this anti 420 day is making me want to start tbh
Refer Madness is a fun video to watch and only gets funner after you've smoked a bowl.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Remember all those idiots who thought this administration was actually going to make good on their promise to legalize it?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Anyone have popcorn?
I cannot fathom any possible way this could go off the rails.
What a great idea!
Hey kids, remember, Ted Nugent never smoked pot.
Um. So, there’s that.
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!
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?
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.
I hope the anti weed messages are at least funny so my legally high ass has something to laugh about.
Hey Fellow Kids (Steve Buscemi)
Don't believe that hype that weed is cool because it's for fools!
Cool, I'll have something to giggle at while I'm stoned!
Warning: avoiding marijuana can lead to unnecessary stress.
Im gonna smoke weed even harder.
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
Hi crackheads :)
Wake up babe, Reefer Madness 2 is about to drop