Commercials are SO FUCKING STUPID.
I’m supposed to be cleaning now, but a commercial on the radio just set me off, and I gotta get this out of my brain before it dies of lonliness.
Commercial starts: “I was a good mother. Then I tried meth and…”
Whoa. Stop right there.
If the thought of using a highly-addictive recreational pharamceutical occurs to you, you are by definition not a “good mother”. If you are so dim that you expected an illegal drug to not have serious ramifications on your ability to care for your child, you are by definition not a “good mother”.
So, let us dispense with the bull. Forty-plus years of narcotic and drug regulation have done nothing to stop the terminally self-destructive from breaking. Airing ads on the radio to pull at the heartstrings of addicts simply isn’t going to work. And it’s not likely to stop anyone from taking meth, crack, heroin, or anything else. Someone that will abuse meth would simply find something else to abuse themselves with anyhow. At least with meth, they get it over with quick and die.
If these people don’t want to take control over their lives and their brains, and instead want to let some body-rotting chemical take their mind away, why are we bothering to stop them? For my entire life (and far beyond it) unregulated intoxicants have been illegal. We have jails overflowing with drug makers, drug traffickers, drug pushers, and drug users. What makes anyone think that pissing me off with another ad that makes me stupider just for having heard it is going to help?