Millions More for a Failed Anti-Drug Propaganda Campaign? Ridiculous!

Paul Armentano has an article at Alternet about the failure of the anti-drug advertising (*Cough* propaganda) to have an impact on drug use rates among American teens.

Indiana House Republican Mark Souder, a White House point man in Congress for its propaganda war against drugs, recently took to the airwaves to defend one of the Bush administration's sacred cows: its National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign.

If you've had access to a television or a newspaper over the past few years, you're probably familiar with the federal ad campaign. It's the one that's spent over $2 billion since 1998 to produce public-service announcements implying that smoking pot supports al-Qaida and may make you pregnant, among other dubious anti-drug messages. So dubious, in fact, that the campaign has flopped miserably among its target audience. Of course, this fact matters not to the White House, which recently demanded $130 million to run the ads through 2008 -- a 31 percent increase over current funding levels.

The ONDCP has so much faith in their advertising campaign that they have disabled commenting on the videos they uploaded on youtube. Luckily, users have found imaginative ways to comment on these stupid ads, sabatoging the cowardly attempts by the ONDCP to shield themselves from criticism.

The misinformation in the ads undermines the already thin credibility of the federal government and parents and teachers that buy into the reefer madness and ty to teach it to their kids.