The "Internets" plays a critical role in the legalization movement, by undermining the mainstream media, who at least in the context of the WoD, generally functions like state-run media.

The Net has allowed our movement to organize and enter the realm of public relations.

If we had the resources to hire the best public relations professionals, people who have well-established, direct connections to the mainstream media, we would greatly expedite achieving our agenda of full legalization supported by an effective system of abuse prevention and treatment, because we would greatly expedite informing the misinformed, creating a unified force in "We the people" that the elected portions of government can't deny.

"This ad has the right stuff"

With all due respect, no it doesn't. That ad can be seen as an attack on the Republican party, where the majority of people needed to support change in our corrupt laws await our honest and freedom-embracing message to overtake the deception.

If I filmed any of us as frequently as Bush as been filmed, I could make the same movie for any individual I chose, focusing only on the negative moments. It's called smearing, and it's the same tactic used against our movement for roughly a century now. Fighting fire with fire would make us hypocrites.

We need to put down the Liberal guns, as well as the Conservative ones, and focus on bringing light, for all to see, to the whole truth, if we are to achieve success.

That's what public relations is all about.

Thank you for your comment. I appreciate hearing responses to my piece, so that I know what holes I should have plugged up and comments I made that may not be having the intended effect.

I can understand how you may have construed my view of the President Bush ad the way you did.

First off, I had no intention of using the ad in the way you stated above. It was not meant to portray my political views, or the political views of this organization. Looking back, it may have been beneficial for me to search out a Bill Clinton ad that had similar characterstics to show it was bi-partisan.

I simply used this ad because it was what I came across in my research, and I did not state any false information about the President. I felt that ad was useful in that it used a prominent figure in our country along with a CLEAR message that viewers can understand and relate to. Many of the government sponosred ads are abstract and confuse the target audience (ages 11-17), so I felt something that was more to the point like this ad, could serve as an example of what an anti-drug ad should look like.

I think we can agree that both liberals and conservatives in the government have failed to solve the drug war problem. The goal of my post was to simply notify the public of how badly their tax dollars are being wasted on the anti-drug media campaign, and offer my advice on how to make it more effective.

However this is an extremly complex issue that won't be solved with one ad about President Bush. I hope it is clearer now what my intent was. If you have any other questions about what I previosuly wrote, or this response, don't hestitate to post another comment. Thanks again for your input.

Each spoofed anti-drug PSA probably cost taxpayers many thousands of dollars to produce and release. Compare that cost to the next-to-nothing costs of the YouTube spoofs.

In each and every case, the spoof is infinitely more entertaining and refreshingly factual when compared to the professional product it mocks or parodies. This, sadly, is the level of professionalism we have come to expect and get from a corrupt drug warrior culture here in the U.S. of A.

Little attention is paid to this government waste. The mere fact that any kind of poorly conceived anti-drug PSAs are done at all seems to be enough to satisfy the inattentive or distracted citizen who ultimately pays the tab. It’s as if few care if the government knows what it’s doing as long as it’s doing something.

Perhaps the next mega-buck government PSA designed to insult our intelligence while emptying our pockets for the benefit of the few will feature a duo: Antonio Maria Costa and John Walters howling at the moon to stop heroin use by three-year-olds.

Giordano

Your mission, which you refuse to accept, is to explain why you can use killer alcohol but other good folks can't use marijuana. Since you alcohol supremacists absolutely and totally refuse to explain why you are superior to cannabis users, the war on cannabis is indisputably bogus. Alcohol supremacism mocks the solemn pledge of liberty and justice for all.