Well, there's a reason they put so much effort into dissing cannabis. They're not going to dis alcohol and tobacco too much, because those are huge multibillion dollar industries that are very dear to our government's economic interests. They can't appear to be all for these drugs because everybody knows they can be really harmful, but it's not like the government is going to go on a massive crusade to erase alcohol and tobacco use from the general population like they do with the black market drugs.

They don't need to create a massive campaign to inform people that crack and meth and heroin can seriously fuck you up either. Hardly anybody disputes that, even the people addicted to them. It would be a waste of money from the government's perspective, as it does not achieve their goals.

But there are lots of people, millions of them, smoking cannabis every day and noticing no real significant ill effects; in order to justify retaining the status quo on cannabis laws (which have been rejected by huge portions of the youth for the past four decades), they need to fight this perception with all the distorted truths and outright lies they can muster up.

We should be encouraged by these anti-cannabis commercials. They show us that the system finds the pro-cannabis population to be a real threat to the status quo and that a massive public campaign is needed to combat it. The very fact that they need to distribute this kind of propaganda to convince the public that cannabis is bad is just an indication that too many people are starting to believe exactly the opposite.