Marijuana Claims in Advertisements

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The objection of this page is to try to understand the claims about marijuana made by U.S. Govern Mental Agencies to the people of the United States of America. The following advertise mints were found in children's comic books in the USA and have been stored here for key documentary evidence and for further research on the ethics of advertising marijuana and making unregulated claims in children's literature.  

Using audiovisual, radio, print publications, and the Internet the Office of National Drug Control Policy - Partnership for a Drug Free Americas publish and broadcast claims about marijuana that are false, misleading, and unsubstantiated. These government commercials advertising marijuana have been played out in the super bowl and are currently on MTV stereotyping marijuana smokers as lazy, "stupid", and irresponsible individuals and demonstrate the federal government's ability to insult their citizens. 

The desire for facts about marijuana is clear and their advertising is confusing and raises the awareness that the U.S. federal government needs regulation when advertising about marijuana. A government that regulates schedule 2 substances should meet or exceed the same set of standards when making claims about schedule 1 "drugs". Their claims need to be archived, documented, investigated, supported by independent nongovernmental research, and regulated by the FDA before being exported to other countries because propaganda knows no borders.com.

Key Terms

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claim

TRANSITIVE VERB:
claimed , claim·ing , claims

1. To demand, ask for, or take as one's own or one's due: claim a reward; claim one's luggage at the airport carousel.
2. To take in a violent manner as if by right: a hurricane that claimed two lives.
3. To state to be true, especially when open to question; assert or maintain: claimed he had won the race; a candidate claiming many supporters.
4. To deserve or call for; require: problems that claim their attention.

NOUN:

1. A demand for something as rightful or due.
2. A basis for demanding something; a title or right.
3. Something claimed in a formal or legal manner, especially a tract of public land staked out by a miner or homesteader.
4. A demand for payment in accordance with an insurance policy or other formal arrangement.
5. The sum of money demanded.
6. A statement of something as a fact; an assertion of truth: makes no claim to be a cure.

Findings of fact? 

Dear Office of National Drug Control Policy Partnership for a Drug Free America,

Let me help you. You may be trying to say.

"Don't smoke and drive, stay at home on Pete's couch, or watch out for trucks merging into your lane." May I suggest "made a gift box out of Ipe with mahogany inlay and used Auto CAD to design a CNC container, then filled a memory card documenting government claims of facts and truth with my Olympus 420. Dug up some government dirt with my CAT 420 and then Filed them down with other claims to fact in the marijuana fiction files. AuthentiCATing: Caterpillar, Cat Scales, CATS on broadway, Cat Stephens, Cat power, Kat Williams, Kat Ferrell, Cat Empire.

Did I forget something?... ahh yes the definitions from yahoo and Webster's Dictionary

fact

NOUN:

1. Knowledge or information based on real occurrences: an account based on fact; a blur of fact and fancy.
2.. Something demonstrated to exist or known to have existed.
3. A real occurrence; an event: had to prove the facts of the case.
4. Something believed to be true or real: a document laced with mistaken facts.
5. A thing that has been done, especially a crime: an accessory before the fact.
6. Law The aspect of a case at law comprising events determined by evidence: The jury made a finding of fact.

fiction 

NOUN:

1. [n] An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented.
2. The act of inventing such a creation or pretense.
3. [n] A lie.
4. [n] A literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact.
5. [n] The category of literature comprising works of this kind, including novels and short stories.
6. [n] Law Something untrue that is intentionally represented as true by the narrator.

effect

Definition: 

1. [n] an outward appearance; "he made a good impression"; "ONDCP wanted to create an impression of facts"
2. [n] (of a law) having legal validity; "the law is still in effect"
3. [n] an impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived); "Media Campaign just did it for effect"
4. [n] the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
5. [n] a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event"
6. [n] a symptom caused by an illness or a drug; "the effects of sleep loss"; "the effect of the anesthetic",
7. [v] cause to happen or occur; "The scientists set up a shockwave"
8. [v] act so as to bring about; "effect a change"

Findings of fact or defamation and libel? 

 Try emailing Saturn and use your alligator clips to rewire your brain. I reccomend you try making the marijuana Meatloaf, leftover salmon, or phish on a bed of kale with a side of black eyed peas, topped with a red hot chili pepper mango chutney, served with a side of mashed pumpkins, topped wits cranberries. Iced tea and four Ice cubes and a SweetWater 420 Pale Ale.  FOr dessert there is Cherry Garcia and Vanilla Ice Cream with Cake. We also have Tofu Dogs, PB&J.

You can help the government get their fax strait.

 No, that is not oll korrect or "okay". I don't buy in or subscribe to that point of view.  TIme for a a critical logic exam. IF P then Q.   Prohibition creates problems for me and you. It is time to evolve. Allow people to grow their own plants, problem sovled. So you drive your car every day. Can you trace where those cash flows go and who gets paid?  I forgot my point.  Is it ok to support eco agro hemp tourism to the hemp maze across the border from Detroit?

terrorism

NOUN:

The use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons. 

prohibition

NOUN:

1. The act of prohibiting or the condition of being prohibited.
2. A law, order, or decree that forbids something.
3. The forbidding by law of the manufacture, transportation, sale, and possession of mintally active and inert Cannabis Sativa.
4. Prohibition The period (1920-1933) during which the 18th Amendment forbidding the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was in force in the United States.

Fact: Marijuana became prohibited following a mass media campaign in the mid 1930's.

Fact: Laws create jobs for people willing to enforce them with "lawful use" of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or cities, often for ideological or political reasons.

e. We the people? I under

Who is we. We the people? I understand supply and your peak demand. When I was a young boy and I didn't like what I was hearing I would ask questions. When I grew up I vented news waves to talk about the truth and facts.  The consensus of truth, propaganda, the cash flows of prohibition, and terrorism need to be discussed. For every example of truth or claim to fact you need at least 100 degrees of proof. Lettuce make sure that we do not terrorize, intimidate, or use scare tactics in the process. Bribery, intimidation, and torture are effects of marijuana prohibition and appeals to cents of fear. In the days of my youth I was taught what it was to be a man and to listen, read, study, photograph, document, digitize, and the way things work.  

I think this ad is poor government logic (if the government claims that the act of prohibiting a substance funds illegal activities, then it makes more cents for a Government not to prohibit and to tax, regulate, and educate) Don't blame we the people for goverment policy.  Please use your media budget and your adz to teach.  

propaganda

NOUN:

1. The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.
2. Material disseminated by the advocates or opponents of a doctrine or cause: wartime propaganda.
3. Propaganda Roman Catholic Church A division of the Roman Curia that has authority in the matter of preaching the gospel, of establishing the Church in non-Christian countries, and of administering Church missions in territories where there is no properly organized hierarchy.

truth

NOUN:
pl. truths

1. Conformity to fact or actuality.
2. A statement proven to be or accepted as true.
3. Sincerity; integrity.
4. Fidelity to an original or standard.
5. Reality; actuality.
6. Often Truth That which is considered to be the supreme reality and to have the ultimate meaning and value of existence.

References

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http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/fact

www.mediacampaign.com

http://servers.medlib.hscbklyn.edu/ebm/2200.htm

http://www.mendosa.com/bratman.htm

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Draft to US congress,

These claims concern me because they are specifically targeting children with unsubstantiated advertisements advertised as “Facts and Truths”.   These claims frequently imply causation when there is none, and demonstrate the federal governments lack of knowledge and research about marijuana and may be considered bureaucratic propaganda and libel.  It is clear that there needs to be some sort of regulation when advertising about marijuana. Could you please investigate and make sure this sort of unsubstantiated advertising does not happen again. All claims need to be investigated, verified, regulated by the FDA, and supported by independent nongovernmental research. 

Please have the government police their advertising ethics policies. Marijuana does not make you sniff a cats butt or make a hat out of ground beef etc.

  Due to marijuana's polemic history of being a scapegoat and pots and panacea, all claims made by organizations need to be carefully examined to justify intimidation, discrimination, persecution, permanent criminal records, and life long imprisonment. Please read the research on marijuana and then read, listen, and watch the marketing materials made by Media Campaign and count how many pieces of advertising you can find that make false or misleading claims about marijuana. Find the research and double blind studies they used to make these statements then make an ad to correct them. In order to help research these materials please make a public marijuana archive of all copywritten historical documents and multimedia files aka artifacts with claims about marijuana for the people.  

Centcerely,

Charles M. James