There is a very insidious anti- pot commercial using leeches

[spacelady]

There is a very insidious anti- pot commercial using leeches
wafting over the airwaves. It at first seems to be about smoking pot along the lines of if "your friends try to persuade you to jump off a cliff, ect." but upon the practice of using leeches to bleed oneself as a new fad to get "cool". But then at the end of the commercial it shows a leech being wrapped in a cigarette paper (zigzag), so this makes it a very thinly veiled admonishment of Medical Marjuana at the same time. I think that stinks! For Shame!

[Little Wing]

1. I would have never linked it to MM

:shrug:

[spacelady]

7. That is why it is insidious - it is linking MM to the old time

medical practice of bloodletting & using leeches to bleed people. As *W* would say "Subliminimable"

[Shine]

2. I've seen that one at a movie theatre, it was really strange.

But I truthfully didn't make the connection with the medical marijuana thing. Hmmm...I was mostly focused on the disgusting leeches. ewwww..... :puke:

[otherlander]

3. GAAAHHHH! THAT COMMERCIAL PISSES ME OFF SO FUCKING MUCH!!!

GAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!

Just for that I'm gettin' me a leech. :grr:

[SPKrazy]

4. Are You Sure

you weren't just real stoned and dreamed this?

I haven't seen it but it sounds weird as hell

:hug:

[spacelady]

5. It is real & it is horribly done, which makes the creative side of me

incensed. It shows a bunch of teens talking about using leeches & fondling leeches & discussing the signs of leech use with a video of someone seeing a girl in their class with a leech attached to the back of her leg then it ends with a video of a leech being rolled up in a cigarette paper, so this is too stupid to even BE a dream, it can only be the work of the minions of our Dear Federal Government!

[SPKrazy]

6. Geez, It Sounds So Incredibly Bizarre

it must be true.

I'll have to keep my eyes open

:wtf: :hug:

[LynneSin]

34. Here's the commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZY7fFuY4Uo

[pitohui]

43. it's real, i've seen it too

i think they played it last night during the simpsons, wtf? like half the audience of the simpsons isn't high?

by the way that was a VERY dark simpsons episodes, leeches advertisements aside...

i agree there is a subliminal link to medical marijuana fully intended

[pitohui]

44. i actually thought it was well done in a sick kind of way

agree it was meant to subliminally slam medical marijuana, certainly don't approve of the message, but i thought it was well done

[Initech]

8. Man, these people are getting desperate...

the anti-marijuana movement contains just about as many idiots as the "Truth.com" people.

[spacelady]

10. I did not catch who was responsible, but Partnership for a Drug-

Free America was what it smelled like.

[Initech]

22. No, it was abovetheinfluence.com

And I think it's pretty obvious that they're sponsored by the GOP. Seriously, their logic is the worst I have ever seen.

[Danger Mouse]

9. Whatever Reefer McGanja...

roll another fatty and go back to bed. It must've been in your imagination.


...anti-drug commercials have an honored history of being horribly inept.
Remember the one with 'Snake'?
Yessss.

[spacelady]

11. Hey L.Ron it is the truth. I wish this idiocy was fantasy.

& yes rolling another fatty is definitely a possibility after seeing that bad trip of a PSA!

[Danger Mouse]

12. NOT L. RON!!! lol

there's a difference!!
anyways...
i heard about the commercial, i just wanted to use the phrase 'reefer mcganja'...i'd be willing to sell it to the anti-drug folk for a modest fee.

[spacelady]

17. Ha ha from reefer mcbuzz - you are hereby dubbed elron.

[Zhade]

24. Remember the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle ones?

Sooooo convincing, as if teenagers always scoring pizza isn't a dead giveaway.

I think Leonardo really, really likes to smoke.

[Danger Mouse]

25. 'I'm not a chicken, you're a turkey!'

'Drug dealers are dorks, don't even talk to them!'
:D

[CactusJock]

13. youtube link for those who just think spacelady's been smoking too much!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs2IK4IboaQ

when i first saw this i thought the choice of leeches for the kids' latest crazy trend was just really random but now you mention it i guess leeches and blood-letting in general are almost the stereotype of old fashioned medical practices, so maybe you're on to something...

[SPKrazy]

14. ROFL!

that is funny!

:rofl:

S.L.O.M.

[Danger Mouse]

16. This commercial is fuckin hilarious!!

nt

[spacelady]

18. Thank You! I was trying to find it! Isn't that PITIFUL?

Thanks so much CactusJock, I was beginning to think I HAD hallucinated, but I am not that stupid even in my dreams!

[Little Wing]

23. Well

now that I've seen the video

that's not a leech inside the joint, it's weed. Second, even if it were a leech in there, I think you're the only one who's linked it to a slam on Medical MJ, perhaps there's an age thing going on.

[CactusJock]

15. actually, i just remembered, they ARE using leeches again in mainstream medicine

so if they are trying to link medical marijuana to leeches as some sort of hokey old fashioned remedy then it backfires anyway:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leech_therapy

Leeches all round!

[BlueStorm]

19. Ok that is just too bizarre...

/spits constantly.. Ewww... Uggh....

I am just imagining someone putting this leech blunt up to their lips, ewww... why do these PSAs always have to be so dramatic and bizarre?

Blue

[spacelady]

20. Get the word out about SLOMMING!

Slomming is the new thing to do! Better than REEFER MADNESS!

[hunter]

21. It's about as dumb as the fried egg commercial. Like, WTF?

Total disconnect from reality.

My kids made fun of it and decided it was an advertisement for smoking pot:

Pot, it's better than smoking leeches!

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

26. Lol, no, that was fake weed they were rolling. I swear that was the worst J I've ever seen

*sigh*

[Little Wing]

28. it looks like shredded wet spinach to me

:D

[jmowreader]

27. You know they have LEECH DEALERS?

I guess you can't just go out to the nearest mudhole and collect medicinal leeches, so you need to go to

http://www.leechesusa.com/leechesusa/

where they sell leeches, tell you how to apply them, and (probably most importantly) tell you how to sell the things to your patients.

[noonwitch]

29. I thought that the ad was funny.

Aren't all anti-drug ads a little over the top? My favorite was the "This is your brain on drugs" variation that had the girl trash the kitchen with her frying pan. That was intense.

I thought the leeches thing was funny, because it wasn't just anti-drug, it encouraged kids to be willing to make decisions based on something other than peer pressure.

[tigereye]

30. it was a truly bizarre analogy

[Vidar]

31. I saw that w sound muted. Had no idea what it was about.

[Rabrrrrrr]

32. I think it's brilliant - and I see nothing anti-MM in it, only anti-being-stupid-as-fuck.

I never saw a correlation to medical marijuana in it.

It's clearly anti-marijuana, yes.

But it does it in such a clever way - it's also saying "Doing something just because other people are doing it, or trying to get you to do it, or 'presure' you into doing it, or because it's popular, means you are a fucking moron. A fucking moron. The kind of fucking moron who would put leeches on your body just because 'everyone else is doing it'."

[JVS]

33. Being anti-stupid-as-fuck is being against peoples' right to express their true selves!

If we can't be stupid as fuck, we can't be anything!

[Rabrrrrrr]

36. I don't believe in individual expression - I think it's just laziness.

Thinking for yourself instead of expending the energy to take someone else's thinking is just slothful and wrong.

:P

[JVS]

37. But stupidity is what most people get when they think for themselves!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

42. Stupidity is what you get...

when you ask people to make an anti-marijuana commercial.

[formerrepuke]

35. I like it...it's about succumbing to peer pressure vs making your own decisions..

..and it can be applied to a lot of things.

[Taverner]

38. Of course they don't see the irony

Leeches were previously thought to be an archaic medicine which offered no value - now they're finding it's safer than a number of mainstream painkillers.

Marijuana was previously thought to be of no use...and well...we know where this is going

[HEyHEY]

39. Where can I get some of these leeches, man

I hear the buzz is killer

[sniffa]

40. hmmmm, Leeches

smoking those wouLd save me a ton of money. :think:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

41. Speaking of leeches...

Isn't making a law outlawing putting leeches on your body even stupider than just plain putting leeches on your body.

[Spirochete]

45. Leeches are a gateway drug

A majority of heavy users of lamprey eels started out innocently on leeches....

[Shell Beau]

46. I saw it the other day! Really far-fetched there. I could see

using it as an anti meth commercial though. If kids know what is in meth and yet they still try it... My husband watched Jackass 2 the other day (why? :shrug:) and they put leeches on their eyeballs!!

[WernhamHogg]

47. Anti-Drug? So that is what that commercial was for?

I saw it last night, but I was stoned at the time so the commercial made no sense to me (but I remember thinking it was funny).

[peekaloo]

48. I thought it was a warning that leeches will end up sucking up your ganja!

I hate when that happens. Get yer own, ya leech!

:D

:smoke: