Insulting? Stoners in the mist...

[Frivolous248]

It's encouraging discrimination against us, and it's trying to alienate us from sociaty. That's as good as racist as far as im concerned. I mean, are they TRYING to piss us off.

Fucking A man. Who the fuck are they to put us down? Like they're better than us. Fuck those fuckers.

[Nation_1ne]

Do your taxes pay for this crap?

[Markass]

Do your taxes pay for this crap?

yes, ATI is funded by the NIDA(national institute of drug abuse) too bad they wont take all of this money for bullshit commercials and give us stoners and our peers a free college education, that's what they should be doing..

[Markass]

I just thought that I'd let you know that stoners in the mist is about the most ridiculous thing. What you guys aren't realizing is that pete's couch is a stereotype. We don't sit around and do nothing. I have a job, I have had since about a week after my 16th birthday. My graduating GPA was 3.4, and I am present around most of the non smokers in my town...I don't sit around and do nothing...They're fully aware that marijuana has negatively impacted my life in no way...it actually has been more effective at keeping me calm in school without adverse effects...ritalin kept me awake at night, tweaked with my anxiety, and nearly killed my appetite. I function normal in society, and the majority of pot smokers do, especially the young ones such as us that are out to prove your commercials wrong by proving to our peers we are able to function just as normally as a tobacco smoker or a regular user of alcohol. You'll never be able to turn young people against each other, because what you tell us is simply not true.


I just sent that to them using the 'contact us' form...trust me, they do read it, because I've gotten a few replies before with distinct answers to my inquiries...we'll see if I get anything this time.

by the way, this is the reply..

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teenagers to improve content for the site and television ads. Your comments
will be taken into consideration as we continuously work to improve
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why don't we all tell them that we know they're lying to us, and we know that it isn't as bad as alcohol and tobacco?

[Reefer Rogue]

It didn't offend me because it's not true. Their lies make me laugh.

[Markass]

Another thing, you say that marijuana has no recognized medical value, well the federal government..the same government that gives you our tax dollars, grow and distribute marijuana to 7 people here in the united states every month. 12 states have enacted legislation for this same purpose, that marijuana can help people...why lie to us? poison ivy and tobacco are natural, but they're not illegal...you can't say a plant is illegal...it grows, and it always will, and as long as it always grows, we will always smoke it. And as long as you guys keep it illegal and tell us lies about it being dangerous, whenever it doesn't even kill people, rather than properly educating youth about it and putting it on a store shelf with an age limit on it...We are going to smoke it...and you actually know something, marijuana has changed me..it's made me into a better person, a person who thinks more logically, who is capable of realizing that something that doesn't kill people is probably my best choice, even if I have to break a stupid law.


I just sent them another one...another rant, but oh well..:thumbsup:

[Nation_1ne]

I'm so sick and tired of being stereotyped and having our name dragged through the dirt. I personally feel there must be almost just as many if not more people who aren't bothered by smoking weed than there is people who don't agree with it. I find it absolutely disgusting that the Government or these organizations feel they can slap people in the face by producing these pointless adverts etc. on hard earned money that should be rewarding the people in society somehow. Give them better education or a better health system. But oh no, not in this world. Instead it's all about War, Terrorists, and Drugs. It's so frustrating that there is nothing I can do.

[LIP]

I'm proud i smoke weed, and im proud im breaking a law - a law that we dont need or want, an unjust law, a joke. I'm commiting a victimless crime by smoking plant matter, yet even though there is no victim, i still get treated like a criminal. For what? Smoking a plant? An illegal plant - say that outloud - "illegal plant" - Sounds like something a toddler would come up with.

[Frivolous248]

Yeah, really bugs me that the 'war' on drugs costs billions of dollars a year. And its not working.

They aren't even cutting that much into drug dealers profits. There was something somewhere that showed the profit from drugs and how much the government cut into it, barely made a difference.

10-15% of illicit heroin and 30% of illicit cocaine is intercepted. Drug traffickers have gross profit margins of up to 300%. At least 75% of illicit drug shipments would have to be intercepted before the traffickers' profits were hurt.

from wiki "war on drugs" entry

[blazed_babe]

in case anyone was wondering, i found this:

"This is the largest study of drugs and drug policy ever conducted by the US Federal Government. It contains detailed information on all aspects of the medical effects of marijuana"

"The Commission's National Survey revealed that 48% of adults believe that some people have died from marihuana use" damn. people being uneducated is one of the biggest fucking problems.

here's the link, there's a lot of interesting info in here, very very very long, but skim through it and check it out

Marihuana, A Signal of Misunderstanding - Table of Contents