Rene ([info]supercheetah) wrote,
@ 2008-03-22 01:48:00
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"Pick up the phone!", thetruth.com, and drugs
So, these late night commercials advertising “chat lines” are as transparent as saran wrap.

“I’m not looking for a commitment!” says one girl in lingerie. They’re just chat lines for bored people, right?

I actually really like TheTruth campaign. Somewhat ironically, at the same time I support the legalization of drugs, and the end to the War on Drugs.

The thing is that I don’t care if people use these things, but they damn well better know what that stuff will do to their bodies. Anybody that sells any of this stuff should, I think, have brutally honest advertising about the drugs they sell, and how it effects the human body and mind.

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[info]ajgrifdog
2008-03-22 10:01 am UTC (link)
Quite honestly, I all but visibly cringe when I have to sell cancer-sticks at work. I am really proud of Wisconsin's legislation about tobacco in the work place. On the other hand, sometimes legislation is a key to creativity.

There was an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about bars who let patrons declare themselves "actors" and smoke if they'd like. I forget where the story came from, but the legislation made room for actors to use tobacco products where they would normally be banned. I read the article at work and totally should have saved it. I don't have the payed archive access to jsonline.com or else I would find it for you. It wasn't in the past two weeks, I guess.

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libertarian?
(Anonymous)
2008-03-23 01:44 pm UTC (link)
I am a libertarian. I think that drugs should be legalized as well. Mainly because I don't think it's the government's job to legislated individual safety. It's certainly the .gov's job to prevent me from infringing on someone else's rights, but if I voluntarily give up my own rights, who is anyone to tell me otherwise, least of all the government.

So, as a libertarian, I think that drugs should be legalized. And, as a transition plan, I wouldn't oppose regulation of drugs so that the sellers were required to disclose information about their effects. But eventually I would want that to be gone, too. With the internet, it's easy to find out what a product (any product) really does and how it functions before you give up your money for it.

But even before the internet exploded, there was consumer reports which privately did the exact same thing. No .gov necessary.

That being said, it'll never happen. Our culture relies too heavily in the belief that we need some smart person (or people) in charge so that the plebes can avoid stupid decisions. For the republicans it's drugs, prostitution, etc. For the democrats it's free trade. It doesn't matter who ends up in power, the goal is the same: stay in power. And the only way any of them can do that is through an emotional appeal to one or the other side's desire to restrict freedom which ultimately ends up in laws doing just that.

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