• IninewCrow
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    241 month ago

    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%

  • katy ✨
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    101 month ago

    im from the future.

    it did not work out like they hoped

  • @not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world
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    181 month ago

    If you smoke enough marijuana you can hear all the complicated stuff drummer Jeff Porcaro isn’t playing on the song Africa by Toto.

  • ohellidk
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    61 month ago

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

  • @RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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    71 month ago

    Hey Fellow Kids (Steve Buscemi)

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

  • @cjoll4@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    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.

    • @MrJameGumb@lemmy.worldOP
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      251 month ago

      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.

      • @cjoll4@lemmy.world
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        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?

    • @MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
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      221 month 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.

  • Aatube
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    181 month ago

    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.

  • Optional
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    111 month ago

    Hey kids, remember, Ted Nugent never smoked pot.

    Um. So, there’s that.

    • @MrJameGumb@lemmy.worldOP
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      161 month 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!

  • originalucifer
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    401 month ago

    dea once again proclaiming how completely out of touch with reality they are.

    idiots.