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An Excellent New Ad to Legalize Marijuana

Dominic Holden
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Hey, hello! The camera is over *here*!
aaronbrethorst on August 6, 2012 at 11:28 AM Report this
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Lame setting, though. They want to make it seem like a natural setting, but a cafe where everyone in the background ignores a woman talking to a camera the way she is looks very unnatural.
seatackled on August 6, 2012 at 11:31 AM Report this
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You know that lady smokes mad bud.
I'm 85 Years Old on August 6, 2012 at 11:46 AM Report this
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I love smart messaging. Especially when it pisses off the fools who've been fucking it up for years.
pheeeew!crack!boom! on August 6, 2012 at 11:52 AM Report this
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@2 I see you haven't been in a cafe in the last decade since everyone got cameras on their cellphones and laptops and tablets and hold long conversations with their gfs in Tibet.
Will in Seattle on August 6, 2012 at 11:53 AM Report this
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....and where is the patient benefit is this multi billion $ per year project? Taxed right back to the street for affordable medicine.
twystedsyster on August 6, 2012 at 11:56 AM Report this
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i recommend they use this as the background music- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CL77xgPy…
aardvark on August 6, 2012 at 12:12 PM Report this
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@5

The cafe in the ad is too quiet for her to go unnoticed. The guy reading should at least have glanced over in annoyance or something. Everyone is acting as if she's not even there.
seatackled on August 6, 2012 at 12:12 PM Report this
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As the election nears I'd love to see ads touting the conceivable agricultural benefits to central and eastern Washington. Regulated marijuana could not only provide farmers with a profitable new crop (not so new for some), but also expand on the wine tourism that is making the region a destination.
Madge on August 6, 2012 at 12:26 PM Report this
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Yeah, let's all ignore the actual people that prohibition hurts because, y'know, soccer moms and software engineers get all worried about their kids when you start talking stoners' rights. Yet here we are trying to convince the same people that jailing stoners is working against their interests? How? MM is a salient issue, but let's drop the charades and start hammering the fact that it hurts actual real people to jail them for consuming weed.
Paddio on August 6, 2012 at 12:37 PM Report this
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People watch TV anymore?
LiberatusQuirkus on August 6, 2012 at 12:56 PM Report this
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Personally I feel this message to the public is suitable, it is a conversation that a lot of people are afraid to talk about, especially kids to their parents. Marijuana from my experience would be rated with drinking a beer personally. I respect everyone's position on the subject because everyone has a different take and/or different experiences dealing with marijuana. Take the next step Washington, lead America into something we all can honestly benefit from, especially during these rough times of economic trouble. Save life's and destroyed families over such a harmless plant and help get police after the real problems and not just people smoking marijuana.
Moderndayhippie on August 6, 2012 at 3:16 PM Report this
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You see @10, this is why the ad is effective because honestly I read your comment with haughty, self-righteous tone and it was...frankly, unconvincing.

There should be ads that point out those issues, and as the vote approaches, I'm sure there will be, but for now, this was a pretty good ad. It's one my mother might watch, and then come to me and say, "Okay, so tell me these supposed benefits of legalizing marijuana."
Pick1 on August 6, 2012 at 3:29 PM Report this
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It's unfortunately a conversation that is lacking common sense. How do you tax something that anyone can grow? The gangs don't sell weed, they sell meth or crack. As far as education, what good is it if the kids come to school high? How many jobs will be lost to those employees that think when this passes, that its okay and fail their UA? (already upheld by the courts). Most of the people in jail for MJ are there for dealing or multiple convictions, not the "innocent" user. Just some thoughts on the subject...
on August 7, 2012 at 9:16 AM Report this
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@14, Easy.
-I can grow my own vegetables and make my own beer. Doesn't stop me from going to the grocery store.
-Kids who go to school high? And where exactly are they getting this marijuana from if we are selling it like alcohol (i.e. to adults only)? Do we have a major problems with kids going to school drunk?

-The drug test issue will need to be addressed, but honestly I would never work for a company that tests me. Even in this economy. But that is my personal stance.

I would love to see your stats on who is in jail.
Akbar Fazil on August 7, 2012 at 12:08 PM Report this
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#10 Paddio: I agree with you that people have the right to use weed (all the more so since other folks are allowed to use killer alcohol), but the issue now is what arguments will best convince the people who are currently undecided or not sure about their vote. Convince, or at least lead to further discussion, I strongly agree with the campaign spokeswoman that the more the subject is discussed, the better off the campaign will be.

As far as convincing people that "jailing stoners is working against their interests? How?", the ad gave 3 good ways: legalization will "cut off gangs from drug revenues, use savings and tax revenue to fund education and health care, free police officers to fight serious crime." It will also increase police-community cooperation and respect, and free drug education from the credibility destroying, wildly hypocritical task of justifying alcohol supremacism over cannabis, and give a useful boost to the economy.
on August 10, 2012 at 2:43 PM Report this
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That's what we need is more people medicating themselves!!! ! Is this the only idea you can come up with to get revenue for the state??
on August 22, 2012 at 8:58 PM Report this

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