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
Wake up babe, Reefer Madness 2 is about to drop
Hi crackheads :)
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.
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.
“Corrective Rape” as a trope within the American prison system is probably the darkest part of this cartoon.
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!!”
That’s not even a weed thing, that’s ultra processed food designed from day 1 to be as addictive as possible…
Which is totally cool and totally legal
Not like it’s a plant humans have used for thousands of years or something
Doritos come from a plant? Far out, man.
Peaches come from a can.
They were put there by a man
Wooaaahhhh
Well yeah, they’re mostly corn.
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…
Wow i sifted through a lot to get to someone with this opinion.
I smoke often but totally agree with you. The research is only just beginning now that the ability to study marijuana use is becoming more and more practical.
Exactly. The demonization of Marijuana by the USA has really pushed back valuable research all over the world, I hope with time we learn more about this plant.
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.
Dihydrogen monoxide is a chemical so dangerous, it has both an acidic and an alkaline effect. It’s completely destructive to the body. In large doses, it can kill a person in minutes. Smaller doses are claimed to be safe by the monoxide user community, but the truth is, it’s a death sentence. Everyone who uses dies.
Women who use it while pregnant have babies that are already chemically dependant on it.
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.
