[RD] Should Dope be Advertised on TV and in Print?

[BvBPL]

California, along with four other states, has a marijuana legalization ballot question before the voters this year. The California ballot question has attracted some strong critics focused not on whether or not marijuana should be legalized, but to what extent it should be advertised. The California initiative would permit marijuana to be advertised on TV, the radio, and in print. This follows years of fighting to limit advertising by the cigarette industry.

Should marijuana be advertised on TV?

The focus on the collateral effects of marijuana legalization is similar to Ohio’s 2015 ballot question. That question, which was defeated, would have legalized marijuana and written into the Ohio state constitution ten regions in the state where marijuana could be grown. These ten farms would have been the only places where marijuana could have been grown, effectively writing a monopoly into the constitution.

What are the collateral effects of drug law liberalization that one should consider? If you are generally in favor, or opposed, to drug law liberalization, what collateral effects would change your mind?

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

No. Advertising reaches way too many children. We've had a very successful campaign against smoking in part because of the ban of ads, and while I don't want to equate smoking cigarettes with weed, it'd probably be best that it doesn't hit mass market saturation via advertising and become the safety issue that it isn't really right now.

 

[Synobun]

I'm fine with drug legalization. I loathe drugs but my personal distaste isn't justification for locking people up and punishing them.

In regards to advertising... I don't believe drugs of any sort should be advertised. This extends to alcohol, cigarettes, pharmaceuticals, and when it happens, recreational drugs. Canada has this weird grey zone where OTC stuff and alcohol is fine but prescription and cigarettes aren't, and I think it'd be better if it was all disallowed. The only reason for this is because of children. They are particularly susceptible to advertising, especially the psychology behind it, and it doesn't help that everyone around them talks about their susceptibility to advertising. It's a self-feeding cycle and it's why children's channels have stringent regulation on what can be advertised and what can't be.

 

[Zelig]

No, I'm against all advertising.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Drugs, including cannabis, need to be used responsibly. And those that struggle with such responsibility will be further hindered by ads, which support self-denial by framing products in a favorable light. Children are, after all, hardly the only one effected by the sub-text-messages of advertising.
The only relevant positive aspect I can think of is decrease of stigmatization. But that seems a far less pressing matter to me in this context.

 

[sophie]

I don't see why not. Alcohol is WAY more dangerous and destructive than weed, and alcohol makes up like a solid 60-70% of the advertising I see when I watch tv. If it's ok for alcohol it's ok for weed in my book.

Now the question of whether or not alcohol should be advertised, that's an entirely different question.

 

[Hygro]

I thought this was going to be about opiates, and how advertising painkillers on TV is contributing to peoples deaths.

 

[God of Kings]

A decade from now:

• Sports Hour presented by Mary Jane's!
• Mary Jane's Rockathon at Mary Jane's Arena!
• NASCAR driver with Mary Jane's decals plastered all over
• Toking some weed, weed, weed, weed! When we get together, we all toke some weed! (television and radio commercial for Mary Jane's)

Sarcasm aside, I am strongly opposed to the advertising of recreational drugs (alcohol included), though I don't mind others consuming them; I personally don't consume them.

 

[mrt144]

California, along with four other states, has a marijuana legalization ballot question before the voters this year. The California ballot question has attracted some strong critics focused not on whether or not marijuana should be legalized, but to what extent it should be advertised. The California initiative would permit marijuana to be advertised on TV, the radio, and in print. This follows years of fighting to limit advertising by the cigarette industry.

Should marijuana be advertised on TV?

The focus on the collateral effects of marijuana legalization is similar to Ohio’s 2015 ballot question. That question, which was defeated, would have legalized marijuana and written into the Ohio state constitution ten regions in the state where marijuana could be grown. These ten farms would have been the only places where marijuana could have been grown, effectively writing a monopoly into the constitution.

What are the collateral effects of drug law liberalization that one should consider? If you are generally in favor, or opposed, to drug law liberalization, what collateral effects would change your mind?

Even though I smoke a ton of pot, no, it shouldn't be advertised on TV or in print. It doesn't need advertisement, we the users, prosthelytize enough as it is.

 

[Zkribbler]

A decade from now:

• Sports Hour presented by Mary Jane's!
• Mary Jane's Rockathon at Mary Jane's Arena!
• NASCAR driver with Mary Jane's decals plastered all over
• Toking some weed, weed, weed, weed! When we get together, we all toke some weed! (television and radio commercial for Mary Jane's)

Sarcasm aside, I am strongly opposed to the advertising of recreational drugs (alcohol included), though I don't mind others consuming them; I personally don't consume them.

Marijuana sponsoring sporting events isn't a good idea. When it's ninth down and seventy-two yards to go, you'll know what I'm talking about. NASCAR drivers hitting speeds of up to nine miles an hour? Just pitiful.

 

[FriendlyFire]

Marijuana should be heavily regulated and like Australia with regards to smoking strict controls on advertising.
The addiction rate for youth runs about 15% which is in line with alcohol addiction. I dont see why it cant be legal and allowed to advertised but it should be done in a responsible way

 

[God of Kings]

Marijuana sponsoring sporting events isn't a good idea. When it's ninth down and seventy-two yards to go, you'll know what I'm talking about. NASCAR drivers hitting speeds of up to nine miles an hour? Just pitiful.

I made that post to satirize marijuana advertising.

 

[Silurian]

Trump should not be advertised.

 

[Narz]

Hundreds of objectively more harmful things are advertised on TV. Booze, automobiles and joining the military for three.

 

[Tahuti]

Trump should not be advertised.

Trump is opium for the rednecks.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Hundreds of objectively more harmful things are advertised on TV. Booze, automobiles and joining the military for three.

Walking to my grandmother so to pick a flower in her garden so to stick it behind her ear in heir hair causes less death than cannabis. Unless I accidentally burn down my house with my family in it while smoking some smooth juice. Unless, while going to my grandmother, the thought of picking a flower for her makes me frantically kill 15 ducks. And so on.
Cannabis does not directly kill, sure. Whatever that means.

However, pres

 

[Hygro]

NASCAR drivers hitting speeds of up to nine miles an hour? Just pitiful.

Haha yo man, slow down. Just drive nice.

 

[sophie]

Walking to my grandmother so to pick a flower in her garden so to stick it behind her ear in heir hair causes less death than cannabis. Unless I accidentally burn down my house with my family in it while smoking some smooth juice. Unless, while going to my grandmother, the thought of picking a flower for her makes me frantically kill 15 ducks. And so on.
Cannabis does not directly kill, sure. Whatever that means.

However, pres

You've...never smoked dope before, have you?

 

[luiz]

I don't see why not. Alcohol is WAY more dangerous and destructive than weed, and alcohol makes up like a solid 60-70% of the advertising I see when I watch tv. If it's ok for alcohol it's ok for weed in my book.

Now the question of whether or not alcohol should be advertised, that's an entirely different question.

That seems like a bad position to take (assuming you're against alcohol advertisement).

Just because something bad is currently allowed, that doesn't mean we should allow other bad things in the name of "coherence" or whatever. Not causing extra harm trumps this notion of coherence.

I'm all for legalizing weed, but I think it should suffer the same kind of restrictions that cigarettes do for sale and advertising - or even tougher restriction, since it is psychotropic (unlike tobacco).

 

[Terxpahseyton]

You've...never smoked dope before, have you?

I wrote a mock response I liked fairly much but now it is gone. I am working on getting it back, but you know, better not hope for it.

So in light of that and because this missing mock response takes all my lust for mocking with it (though OMG you beg for it), I'll go straight for it.

You are very much wrong. I literally could not think of a more plainly way to say this, so I hope it's good.