This is the second in a series of presentations of propaganda by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and their Above the Influence campaign.
The first one I reviewed is here.
This one is titled “Pete’s Couch.”
(Scene opens with a guy sitting on the couch talking directly to the camera)
I smoked weed and nobody died.
I didn’t get into a car accident, I didn’t O.D. on heroin the next day, nothing happened.(Shot widens to show the guy with two friends sitting on the couch)
We sat on Pete’s couch for 11 hours.
Now what’s going to happen on Pete’s couch? Nothing.(Shot now shows the guys on the couch in the middle of the woods with some mountain bikers riding by. Then to a basketball court. Then an ice rink.)
You have a better shot of dying out there in the real world, driving hard to the rim, ice skating with a girl. No, you wanna keep yourself alive, go over to Pete’s and sit on his couch til you’re 86.
Safest thing in the world.(Shot now shows the guys on the couch outside a movie theater. The guy talking gets up from the couch and walks into the theater)
Me? I’ll take my chances out there. Call me reckless.
(AbovetheInfluence.com logo appears)
Now you’ve seen it. You’ve read the script. Now read what Jeralyn Merritt has to say.
