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 run by the anti-cannabis nonprofit organization Johnny’s Ambassadors. “Be an Instagram Influencer […]
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.
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.
What’s a youth? Under 21 in idiot land?