Above the Influence

[JohnnyZ]

I was watching Boyz in the Hood on spike and one of those Above the Influence commercials came on. A little kid had cherries (lit end of a joint in case that's only a term I use..) popping through his skin. He walks around the house and finds his 15 year old sister and her emo friend puffin a J in her bedroom. Then it hits us with the end line - "Marijuana hurts more than just you" or something equally retarded.

So in light of this I would like to encourage everyone to giddy up on over to their site and get your facts straight. Or at least get a laugh.

Marijuana | Drug Facts | AboveTheInfluence.com (http://www.abovetheinfluence.com/facts/drugs-marijuana.aspx)

[flyingimam]

I am certainly not going to contribute a single website hit to them and their statistics. its not funny to me, its sad, and i already know what is said over there, just me:D

[AbrandnewL]

Im pretty fucking heated right now. Those people probably do these bias studies just so they can back up their bullshit claims. The only truthful thing on that whole page was "Marijuana is illegal". :mad:

[issachar]

I've been working on trying to transcribe that guitar thing going on in the background of that commercial, it's actually pretty nice if you just listen to it

[DOUGAL25]

"Research found that students with an average grade of “D” or below were more than four times as likely to have used marijuana in the past year as students who reported an average grade of “A.”44 Students who have smoked marijuana within the past year are more than twice as likely to have cut class than those who did not smoke, while health problems associated with using marijuana can keep students from attending school due to illness.45"

lololol....All i do is smoke and i have an "A" average in college this year

[JaySin]

"Research found that students with an average grade of â??Dâ?� or below were more than four times as likely to have used marijuana in the past year as students who reported an average grade of â??A.â?�44 Students who have smoked marijuana within the past year are more than twice as likely to have cut class than those who did not smoke, while health problems associated with using marijuana can keep students from attending school due to illness.45"

lololol....All i do is smoke and i have an "A" average in college this year

I probably would have gotten better grades in high school if I had smoked. Oh well, college is where it really matters and I've been doin great so far.

[RedLocks]

these commercials are becoming more and more absurd

[DocJTre2]

For some reason or another I was watching 'Busted' on MTv and this one pot head had been pulled over and one thing lead to another where the kid wanted to express that driving under the influence of marijuana was safer than drunk driving. The cops responded something like... "NO!!!!!! R U STUPID?! YOU'RE WRONG AND I'LL TELL YOU WHY YOU'RE! WEED STAYS IN YOUR SYSTEM LONGER THAN ALCOHOL!"

hahaha... oh my god...

[smok3y]

Good movie "Boyz N Tha Hood"..

These comercials are a load of shit..

[theforthdrive]

"Research found that students with an average grade of â??Dâ?� or below were more than four times as likely to have used marijuana in the past year as students who reported an average grade of â??A.â?�44 Students who have smoked marijuana within the past year are more than twice as likely to have cut class than those who did not smoke, while health problems associated with using marijuana can keep students from attending school due to illness.45"

lololol....All i do is smoke and i have an "A" average in college this year

I think we have to separate intelligence into the equation. Some people are just dumb and weed doesnt help. Others are smart and weed has little effect if responsible! The weak side of this "data" is it doesnt account for the persons psyche. For example, my freshman year of HS I smoked alot and ditched even more. My grades 1.1 or something. Ended up in boarding school and never smoked again and had nothing less than a 4.0. now it looks like weed cause my bad grades but really it was the emotional shit going on in my life that lead me to smoke weed and ditch school! How do I know. because I didnt smoke weed again for years. I started again during my last year of college and my grades actually improved. It literally cut my test anxiety and I would ace tests! its that simple! Yeah, smoking before class is dumb. but smoking when you done with your work.....Good Times! :rastasmoke:

[DOUGAL25]

Yeah, smoking before class is dumb. but smoking when you done with your work.....Good Times! :rastasmoke:

The effective system I use: wake up (school day), take a couple hits to get at the medicinal-level highness, go to all my classes, couple more hits - do the homework, after gettin it all done - take it to the recreational level (a lot of hits) till ya pass out.

Using this system, I haven't received any grade lower than an A on h/w & exams, w/ the exception of 2 B+'s.

:stoned:

[overgrowthegovt]

Yeah, it's really all about the individual. Some of the most intelligent people I know get high, and some of the dumbest too. Somehow I doubt the dumb ones would be specializing in nuclear physics if only they didn't toke.

AboveTheInfluence...I hate their very name; it has an elitist implication to it; well, I'll take being under my introspective "influence" over being in their sober sheep-mentality any day.

[415plus5]

all that commercial means to me is dont put out your joints on your little brother. haha. i know that is not what it means at all, but i find a way to make all of those commercials hilarious. like the one with the talking dog, that girl must have been trippen!

[windigo11]

i always laugh so hard at the picture ads. i was reading xbox magazine. i turn the page and i see "BECOME A BURRITO TESTER!" it had lots of things like "test burritos in space stations, pirate ships, and more!" and other funny stuff. then on a bar across the bottom of the page it reads "Not many jobs out there for potheads. abovetheinfluence.com"

i lol'd

[jimmy8778]

dude, the only anti drug ad that ever worked on me was the frying pan with the egg and the lady. but thats when i was like 8. it only worked for so long. it wasnt true. though it could be for other drugs, the new ones seem to be aimed at MJ, whereas the old ones were more broad spectrum.

[purplekush989]

3 times more likely to have suicidal thoughts? oh, shit.

[couch-potato]

Don't believe numbers. They can be 'rearranged' to suit the claimer's needs.

Let's say I study 100 people. It's on a college campus, so 50 out of the 100 people admit to smoking cannabis regularly. I could claim that 1 out of every 2 college students smokes cannabis. That's fine. Nothing wrong with that. Buuuut...

4 students admit to committing crimes that are cannabis-related. Robbery to get money to buy weed, drug dealing to minors, etc. Now...

I could make 45 of the original 50 admitted cannabis smokers simply 'disappear'. And then I could reasonably claim that 4 out of every 5 pot smokers admit to committing crimes. Essentially, I'm telling the truth because those people did admit to committing crimes. BUT I'm making the other 45 people disappear because I simply can.

They're NOT lying to you. They're just not telling the entire truth, either...

If my explanation was confusing please let me know and I'll expand upon it.

[bonsaiguy]

When it comes to demonizing weed, you need only to watch the movie Reefer Madness to know what lengths the "powers that be" will go to to get their point across. Almost makes one give credence to the folks who whisper all of the conspiracy theories about why it was outlawed in the first place.

[Markass]

what's even gayer than the commercials is the fact that they're spending OUR money on them..to lie to people..

[Spammer]

everyday i see those stupid anti weed commercials there bullshit. ive only seen one commercial that was pro-marijuana and that was about 4 years ago and i think they only showed it once. it was something like compassion or sumthing like that. they need to make more pro-marijuana commercials