This is Your Brain on the Drug War

Trump wants to spend "a lot of money" on a new round of anti-drug commercials. Just say no.

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During a rally in New Hampshire last month, President Trump promised that the federal government would "spend a lot of money" on a new anti-drug campaign that would scare kids "from ending up like the people in the commercials."

We'll make them "very, very bad commercials," Trump told the crowd. "We'll make them pretty unsavory situations."

Yet research on the effectiveness of past anti-drug campaigns, including a 2014 meta-analysis of 19 studies, concluded that these efforts had little to no effect on use of illicit substances. A 2008 study published in the American Journal of Public Health looked at the effectiveness of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, which ran from 1998 and 2004 and cost $1 billion. It found that the program may have had the opposite of its intended impact, actually encouraging drug use.

Isn't it time to just say no?

Written, produced, and shot by Meredith and Austin Bragg. Edited by Meredith Bragg.

[Andreas]

I wanted to see the egg crack. Unsatisfying.

[einstin]

Where do you go to find mini jack Daniels bottles and glasses? Or mini beds with mini blankets for that matter?

[jdk]

I never understood how people who drink alcohol have the balls to tell other people they are not allowed to do a different drug of their choosing

[amunderdog]

To fuel the militarized police state that we find ourselves trapped in.

[rs]

I wonder how much money criminal organizations paid for this video to get made?

[sergioesamayoa]

why...
Drug war is a BUSINESS!
Millions of US$ spent in that stupid war.
Legalizing (in reality "decriminalize")?
NO WAY!
Would be no more a business for the dealers neither for the DEA.

[GBart]

was kind of hoping it would go all HowToBasic

[cranklabexplosion-labcentr]

“Losing the war on drugs implies that there’s a war being fought… and people on drugs are winning.” - Hicks

[selftransforming]

Thank you. If only we could have logic and freedom as universal values.

[WouterCloetens]

Put the egg in a microwave oven. Mind blown.

[GibsonArtola]

Ah....wait a sec... because I don't want to see me, myself and friends die of drug addiction?

[aeolisticwill]

And he wants to bring back abstinence only education. That'll scramble your egg.

[GLORYNEVADASMITH]

The U.S. Govt. just spent decades of untold wealth learning how to look up a rectum when it could have been conquering the Chemistry of pain relief and addiction .

[GLORYNEVADASMITH]

Why ? " Stupid Is As Stupid Does ", even Forrest Gump knows that !

[esmith]

There aren't very many legitimate studies to show the harm that could have been caused by drugs during the war on drugs. Given that It was illegal I'm sure many issues that caused harm and could have a negative effect on people went unreported. To claim that the war on drugs was a failure it the terms of causing more harm is pure ignorance at best and disingenuous at worst.

[SnazzBot]

Because old people think it'll work and that's an important demographic to appeal to

[beareggers]

Careful with that egg, in school I learned cholesterol is bad for you.

[james]

It was never a war on drugs, but a war on poor people

[MunImr-uv]

"This is youre brain"
Wtf Put It Back In >:(

[RedZ]

You guys gonna talk about the federal reserve anytime soon?