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‘Ride Pipe’: Nike Faces Anti-Drug Backlash to Shirt Slogans

Ride Pipe: Nike Faces Anti Drug Backlash to Shirt SlogansPORTLAND, Oregon (AP) — Nike Inc. is being blasted for replacing its signature “Just Do It” slogan on some T-shirts with the phrases “Dope,” ”Get High“ and ”Ride Pipe.”

The shoe and athletic apparel company said the terms are part of the lingo used by the skaters, snowboarders and participants in other extreme sports it’s trying to target with the shirts. But critics say the slogans endorse drug use.

Boston’s mayor has asked Nike to remove a display of the shirts. And an Oregon antidrug group condemned them in a letter sent to 1,500 people — including some at The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy — urging them to let Nike know they disapprove of the slogans.

“It’s gone past edgy,” said Tom Parker, spokesman for the Oregon Partnership. “Sure it is the language of skateboarders and surfers, but it’s also the language of addicts.”

Boston’s mayor Thomas M. Menino this week sent a letter to the general manager of a Niketown store in a popular shopping district in Boston after he saw the shirts in the store window. He asked that they be taken down, saying the company failed to take drug abuse seriously.

“Your window display of T-shirts with drug and profanity wordplay are out of keeping with the character of Boston’s Back Bay, our entire city and our aspirations for our young people … not to mention common sense,” Menino said in the letter.

Mayor: Nike’s shirts send wrong message about drugs: MyFoxBOSTON.com

The Nike shirts became available on June 1 in conjunction with the launch of an action sports campaign. The “Dope” shirt shows the image of a pill bottle upended with surfboards and skateboards pouring out. Not all the shirts have controversial terms. Other shirts include the phrases “F Gravity” and “Get Wet.”

Nike, based in Beaverton, Ore., .recently has increased its marketing surrounding extreme sports and said the new shirts promote sports — not illegal drug use.

“Sport is an antidote to drugs,” Nike spokeswoman Erin Dobson said in a statement. “There is no better adrenalin rush than catching a wave or landing a trick. The language is the same that skaters, BMX‘er’s and surfers use every day around the world.”

Skateboarders say references to pot smoking are common in extreme sports. “It’s part of the culture,” said Mike Hirsch, 45, a skateboarder since the 1970′s and owner of the SoCal Skate Ship in California.

Hirsh doesn’t sell Nike products at his store, but said he doesn’t think the shirts should be pulled because of the terms. “I’m not a big fan of it,Ride Pipe: Nike Faces Anti Drug Backlash to Shirt Slogans but it’s part of the street culture and always has been,” he said.

New Yorker Paul Roura, 25, a skateboarder for 15 years, called the shirts “corny.” ”It’s not the best image to be putting out there for skateboarders,” he said.

Travis Tygart, the CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, agrees. “Apparently, Nike did not consult any of their former sponsored athletes like Marion Jones, to see firsthand the destruction that comes from choosing to use dangerous drugs to cheat in sport,” said Tygart, referring to the track star who had her Olympic medals stripped after she admitted to using steroids.

“Athletes have had their lives ruined by the use of performance enhancing drugs, and it is totally irresponsible that Nike is now actively promoting it for profit,” he said.

Nike has long pushed the envelope with its products and marketing efforts. The company had an “Air Stab” line of shoes that was pulled in London in 2008 after a spate of knife deaths around that time. The company also had a series of ads for its Hyperdunk shoes that included images and slogans that some critics considered anti-gay. Nike supported the campaign at first but later withdrew the ads.

David Carter a professor of sports business at executive director of University of Southern California’s Sports Business Institute, said the shirts in the current campaign cross the line.

“I understand their edginess and where they‘ve been all these years trying to get people’s attention in dramatic ways,” said David Carter a professor of sports business at executive director of University of Southern California’s Sports Business Institute. But, “It is in poor taste given what the company really stands for when it comes to pure sports.”

However, Carter and other marketing experts said Nike might be laughing all the way to the bank. The controversy could generate more attention and spur sales of the shirts, they say.

“I don‘t think it’s necessarily a bad thing,” said Paul Swanguard, managing director of the University of Oregon’s Warsaw Sports Marketing Center. “It’s not an overt attempt to offend but it is an overt attempt to connect, which is what Nike has always done well.”

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AP Business Writer Mae Anderson contributed to this report from New York. AP Sports Writer Eddie Pells also contributed to this report.

Comments (62)

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  • Its Gonna Getcha
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:21pm

    So this is “Coke adds life” all over again but without the cocaine.

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  • shybastid
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:04pm

    Everyone does understand there will now be knockoffs of this dropped campaign in every head shop in America and in the parking lot of every concert now….CORRECT?

    Who’s got a silk screen machine?

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  • tclove
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:57pm

    Not so ironically, most extreme sports athletes are Christians. Metal Mulisha, Moto, Surfers, Sk8rs, etc…at the podium they thank the Lord first, then their sponsors and family.

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    • LibertyWon
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 6:03am

      Standing up and saying “I’d like to thank ME, no one else BUT ME, oh and Myself, Thanks and Good Night.” might not get you the endorsments you want, unless you are a gangster rapper.

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  • wash1776
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:13pm

    Nike is now on my don’t buy from list.

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  • geonj
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:21am

    another attack on American capitalism. really, there is so much real trouble in our economy, do we really need to go after a company’s marketing strategy. i mean, really if i see a t-shirt that says “get high” i am not going to to smoke pot . we are not sheep, people. don;t buy into this attack on business and free speach.

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  • CulperGang
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:16am

    Mass media has brought us enough knowledge of the effects of drugs. If you put it in your body, then you are not fit to breathe. Ron Paul is RIGHT and so was Bill Buckley Jr. LEGALIZE IT ALL. Let the person make the choice between life and death. In the mean time drug cartels disappear and the barbarity that comes with it. The government makes $$$$$$$$ on the sale, which can lessen the tax burden on us. Well, maybe. So far the more politicians get in revenue the more they want and they DO not reduce taxes, permanently ever. Legalize drugs. Reform tax system to Fairtax and the US will be back on track to prosperity. Those that chose death of drugs well, they are naturally culling the herd. NO welfare for drug addicts ONLY sanatoriums. Like back in the 1920/30s.

    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sanatorium THIS system itself will keep people off of drugs.

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  • hidden_lion
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:01am

    “The Crusades only gave the Muslims another, and more importantly, perhaps the First reason to hate Christians.”
    The ignorance of the crusades is pathetic. The crusades were first a response against Islamic expansion. The Muslims attacked and were conquering Christian lands. The Byzantine Emperor asked the Europeans for help. The Pope got involved in recruiting and we got the crusades. The only thing religion had to do with it was for recruiting, it was also the reason for its failure, as once they served their time the majority returned home, not leaving enough people to hold to territories. Islam created the holy war/crusades. Unfortunately, the christians behaved just as badly as the ******* in their conduct. Islam needs no reason to hate us, other than the fact we represent freedom and are not muslim.

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  • hi
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:31am

    I love it! The shirts advertise which losers my kids are not allowed to hang out with.

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  • JGraham III
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:27am

    The religious overtones of some of the posts here is interesting as the word “nike” in Greek roughly means in English “overcome”. Maybe the religious ‘objectors’ should petition Nike to change their name? Romans 8:37 says of Christians that we are “more than conquerers” (huper-nikao…super-overcomers)… done mostly through prayer, incidentally.
    I don’t have a problem with Nike printing these shirts; after all they will have to bear the burden of selling them and if public opinion goes against what is on them it might be a hard sell. On the other hand as far too often my Christian brethren do; if too much is made over these slogans, it will only make the shirts more desirable to the crowd that Nike has targeted with the promotion. Bre’r Rabbit had it right when he said: “don’t throw me in that there briar patch!”

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    • last frontier
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:57am

      JGRAHAM the 3rd, put down the graypoupon and go smoke a Doobie with AARON, and stay off those what do your dreams mean sites.

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    • JGraham III
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 7:44pm

      Nah! It would cut into my skiing time. Incidentally, skaters are just like boardheads. All of ‘em are half-piped most of the time. And, the grey poupon goes well with the sardines and Hagen-Das ice cream that gets stuffed into a snowbank to wait for me to have it for lunch.

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  • LukeAppling
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:20am

    I have not ever bought anything from NIKI, and will never buy anything from them, I was fed up with them when they were selling Michael Jordan tennis shoes for $150/pair to black kids who could not afford them and NIKI saw nothing wrong with that. If they were a good , responsible company they would want more people wearing and using their equipment by greatly lowering the prices. Obviously they care only for themselves and are loved by the lamestream media who has yet to be criotcal of them for their greed.

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  • NOBALONEY
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:49am

    down, down,down

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  • hannible
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:46am

    really people? grow up and learn the damn bill of rights. Freedom of speech Amendment I- “prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” So why are people trying to say Nike shouldn’t be allowed to make these shirts, or why cant the shop owner not display them? If you don’t like it, then don‘t buy them and don’t go by the damn shop. This is the problem with America now, people think only of themselves and forget some people might not be so easy to offend by petty crap like this. Nike is right, people my age (20) or around my age do use these words in daily life. We arnt talking about drugs we are talking about sports. Just because the few are bad why ban the majority? But as i said before grow up and be a real American

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  • jobe
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:23am

    Dont believe anything Nike says. They use poor children to make their product. So selling drug reference shirts is not beneath them. If Jesus was here they wouldn’t think of selling such trash to our children. Ohh yah forgot go Crusades go. Hehe

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  • nomercy63
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:21am

    you need to remember Nike is a huge corporation world wide, this went through many levels and approvals to get that released so who approved it and why like to know the facts involved!!

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  • Ex_Masshole
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:14am

    1. Tom Menino (Boston Mayor) is borderline retarded.
    2. The voters of Boston are fully retarded for continually re-electing him.
    3. Marijuana was decriminalized in Massachusetts in the last election. Possession of small amounts will get you a ticket (small fine), like jaywalking, if the cops even bother.
    4. Poor taste should not be regulated.
    5. Nike can (and should) do better than this.

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  • TEARS FOR AMERICA
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 8:42am

    KICKAGRANDMA:
    I love you and thank you!

    What is being accepted in this day and age is rebellion to God, pure and simple. It is time we stood up to this trash that is destroying the next generation.

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  • Alaredneck
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 8:17am

    No need to be “edgy” when you excel in product and service. Nike swash speaks for itself.

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  • ares338
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 7:58am

    The administration only gets upset if it’s a religious slogan.

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  • SamIamTwo
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 7:44am

    The radicals of the 60′s knew the power of Marijuana…and it is used in other countries to kool out the masses…better than vodka…so I am told. lol

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  • SamIamTwo
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 7:42am

    It’s not just nike…you blokes that run this site need to pull together all related news on this one…it is a serious story and not to be taken lightly as the fist poster implies. Prob a keyboard cowboy or someone who pays no attention to the saturation process of the mind melt during the full moon wheel effect, eh?

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  • mossbrain
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 7:23am

    If any of you get sore feet I heartily recommend Nikes sports socks with a tight band of arch support stitching. I have such sore feet after all the hiking I do that I can’t sleep at night but socks with arch support help a great deal, so does propping your feet up on a pillow at night.

    Stupid slogan, they should go more towards naked buxom women silhouettes like on trucker mudflaps.

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  • quicker
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 7:07am

    And then you got Barney Frank and Ron Paul saying legeize pot .This ought to be a deal killoer for Paul.Any body thinks this guy is presidental material are smoking pot.

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    • ronmorgen
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:29am

      Any body thinks this guy is presidental material are smoking pot.

      One spelling error, and one grammar error. Maybe you are consuming some kind of drug also.

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    • ronmorgen
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 11:01am

      In regards to Islam/Jihad/Israel Ron Paul is clueless. So I agree, he shouldn’t be President.

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  • IslandMama
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 6:48am

    To MaryJanesUncle: I have to disagree with you heartily here. This is exactly the kind of thing that puts another ***** in America’s armour. Would you want your child to wear that? I am a parent and I would forbit it, but then again, I don’t endorse drug use of any kind in my household. In fact, they can laugh all the way to the bank when the druggies buy these dumb shirts, but people like me, I hope, will boycott their much more expensive shoes and sportswear. I actually am in PR and marketing, and I can tell you I fully understand the need for edginess. This, however, severely crosses the line. Nike, you should be ashamed.

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    • maryjanesuncle
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 6:52pm

      As the sword is pushed down your throat, please do check the ***** in your arnour

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 6:46am

    I guess their millions weren’t enough.

    Boycott nike and call them today, too.

    We stand now, guys, or we fall. satan is using everything he’s got in his weapons arsenal against us.

    The GOOD NEWS IS THE GOOD NEWS!

    “Greater is HE WHO IS within me than he who is in the world.”

    PRAY ON, AMERICA! Stand and fight. Pray without ceasing~~~~PUSH~~~~~
    P ray
    U ntil
    S omething
    H appens

    And, GIVE THANKS IN ALL THINGS, esp. the things and the people that are so contrary to our way of life. GOD works through and with our praise and thanksgiving. HE knows our hearts and that we are hurting and sad, frustrated and angry; but, we are not a people without real hope which HE IS.

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    • Aaron in Polk County
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 6:53am

      If you pray for something, you will only be disappointed on your knees.

      Praying people bow their heads until someone else takes action.
      Why don’t you Please stand Up and do Something and make it Happen.

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    • Ballgame
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 7:08am

      Only a simpleton thinks that a Christian is incapable of doing anything more than prayer. If it wasn’t for us praying Christian you would be either dead or a slave. Remember that thing called the Christian Crusades, maybe your public school education never enlightened you to such things.

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    • Aaron in Polk County
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 7:26am

      @Ballgame
      Christian Crusades? Really? You reference the darkest period of Christianity as an example of the kind of action you want? What the Hell is wrong with you?

      The Crusades only gave the Muslims another, and more importantly, perhaps the First reason to hate Christians.

      Please explain how I would “…be either dead or a slave.” And, if you are going to back to the Crusades, and make the stretch to today’s America, there will be enough speculation in your argument to make it invalid. So, don’t waste my time.
      But, if you think you have a valid point, I would love to hear it.

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    • Ballgame
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 8:03am

      @Aaron, Let me explain some things about the crusades. First there were eight major crusades and numerous expeditions that continued into the 14th and 15th century. The first major crusade started around 1095AD and the eight major crusade around 1270AD. So around 175 years of war.

      Instead of going into a long textbook answer here is an abridged answer. Islam had spread throughout the middle east and into Europe. Jews and Christians in those conquered lands were slaves to the Islamist. Original expeditions were just pilgrimages to Jerusalem by Christians. When the Christians were unable to pass conflict followed.

      Kings led Crusades, commissioned by the church because the church had money. Several of the crusades were complete failures. Some had huge success. The ownership of Jerusalem went back and forth. Jews had no power and no control and were killed by both sides. No war is perfect and for those who have been in battle you know what I am talking about.

      So if that is what you are referring to as dark days of Christianity then yes, there were several mistakes. Can Christians learn from their mistakes and stand together once again to stop the advance of Islamic terror again….YES!

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    • randy
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:52am

      @AARON IN POLK COUNTY

      You’re such a loser.

      I’m curious… Why spend so much time here? Nothing better to do? Soros pays you well?
      Do you really think your drivel will change anyones mind? Glenn scares the bejesus out of you doesn’t he? Your obsessed with him aren’t you?

      Typical Obama useful idiot….

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    • Sound The Trumpet In Zion
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:57am

      @Ballgame
      I presume you are aware that the Crusaders and Spain during the Inquisition killed more Jews than they did Muslims? To them, the Jews and the Muslims were just alike.

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    • Ballgame
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:32am

      @sound Not sure on the numbers but, I do not it all depended on who commissioned (several Popes back then), and who the Military fell under. In 175+ years of war there will be atrocities that happen, there will be innocent blood that is shed. Not all followed a Holy War, some fought for land and money.

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    • last frontier
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:46am

      Come on AARON it’s time to get out of your parents basement and stop playing XBOX, what are you a professional student at 42?

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  • maryjanesuncle
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 6:25am

    Lets see, Obama in office, Israel in jeopardy, nation on brink of epic fail….and you wig out on this..check your priority controls, they are off

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    • Aaron in Polk County
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 6:42am

      Great publicity!
      Here come the Christians! with their, “Reefer Madness.”

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    • brickmoon
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 6:47am

      Well, if the “DOPE” shirt had a picture of the POTUS above it, that might be less objectionable, could discourage kids from voting under the influence.

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    • Ironmaan
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 7:16am

      @Arron

      Hey Arron, you don’t have to be a christian to be against promoting the destruction on ones mind especially when this campaign has targeted at our youth. You clearly have destroyed many brain cells as you have demonstrated that you are a dumb ass.
      http://guerillatics.com

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    • militiaman
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 7:30am

      I’m with the Ron Paul school of thought that says what a person puts into his/her own body is their own business. I think it’s madness to be addicted to drugs or alchol, but it’s an individual choice.

      And I don’t buy the notion that drugs will be more available to kids than it is right now. As it stands, they can buy anything the want.

      Education and rehab centers are much less costly than court costs and incarceration. California at present is at a point where it has to release thousands of prisoners, because they can’t pay to house them. In other parts of the country entire police departments have been abolished. New Jersey cities have…or are in the process of…laying off 1/3 to 1/2 of their police, and other areas of the country are cutting back severely. That trend will continue.

      Remember how how the government howled about even penny ante gambling? Well, when they got low on money they weren’t in the least reluctant to legalize off track wagering, casinos and lotteries.

      Eventually I think they’ll have to legalize marijuana at the very least, if figures show they can make a profit.

      The government is going to keep up this ongoing incrementalization of taxes and fees until they can’t squeeze the people anymore to pay for their bloated bureaucracies, When it gets to the point of riots in the streets or acquiring revenue via legalizing illegal drugs, they’ll decide on the extra revenue. Believe me.

      But, eventually, even that won’t be e

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    • Aaron in Polk County
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 7:34am

      @Ironman

      I did not present the point that “…you have to be Christian to be against promoting…”
      You suck at arguing, and spelling.

      Let me help you.
      In an agreement you first have to understand the subject matter. Drugs. Second you have to comprehend your opponents point. Christians! will come out against this campaign. Not all Christians! nor only Christians! Last, your counter point to my argument assumes that I am for this Nike campaign. I am not. I am just stating the fact that Christians will be against it.

      Fun Fact: Reefer Madness was an over top, comical campaign to suggest that Reefer will make minorities (among others) rape your white daughters. YouTube it, and enjoy.

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 7:40am

      I hear Ron Paul and Barny Rubble are sponsoring a bill to legalize mary jane.

      In the 60′s we would call this cooling out the masses with marijuana. They know exactly what they are doing and it just tells me we are in for some serious bad times so get high is being seen everywhere.

      I see and hear about marijuana on the tube at night when they run their new shows in nbc, cbs, abc, fox, fx, ei, ei O. You are being prepared for legalization.

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    • ronmorgen
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 8:19am

      So alcohol is ok, but pot is evil. Hypocrites.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 8:20am

      @Aaron in Polk County
      Where, in the article, does it mention Christians?

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    • Sound The Trumpet In Zion
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:02am

      “It’s gone past edgy,” said Tom Parker, spokesman for the Oregon Partnership. “Sure it is the language of skateboarders and surfers, but it’s also the language of addicts.”
      Some more of the pc crowd speaking up. There are a lot of words out there that can either be used as a positive term or a negative term. If people are afraid to use any word that could be used in a negative connotation then they have reduced their vocabulary to less that half of the words that they know. Gay means happy but the homosexual crowd uses it as a term to describe themselves (even though I know a lot of homosexual people that are more unhappy than they are gay). Perhaps we should stop using that word since the statement “I’m feeling gay” can mean that they are feeling happy or that they are homosexual.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:39am

      Poor judgement, NIKE.

      If murder was ‘cool’ would you make a tee that says, “killer”?

      oh, I guess you would.

      Corporate ethics has really sunk low these days.

      I doubt they even teach corporate ethics anymore… maybe in some of the better MBA’s.
      I feel certain that a general ‘ethics class’ would actually teach people this was okay.
      Society has lowered the bar REALLLLLY LOW.

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    • jkendal
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:06am

      The God haters obviously don’t need any mention of Christians to jump in with their anti-Christian rhetoric. They don‘t seem capable of posting ANYTHING on this forum that isn’t anti-Christian. It seems to be their mission in life. Kind of pathetic, actually…….

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:08am

      Kush.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:17am

      SamIamTwo

      That’s somewhat disturbing. Reminds me of “cakes and circuses”.

      I’ve smoked marijuana regularly for over 15 yrs. It has no effect on “cooling me out” in regards to the multiple intrusions on our liberties by the Nazi Police State and their falsified War on Drugs, or their falsified War on Terror.

      Nevertheless, I could see a good deal of people who are not capable of functioning when smoking marijuana or using drugs becoming easily pacified, misled, and in general being somewhat vulnerable to the malicious manipulation by government propagandists.

      These types of people were not capable of thinking coherently sober, let alone influenced by marijuana or other drugs.

      However, I stand on the fact that the majority of people will not be pacified by something that shouldn’t be illegal in the first place. They have to come with a Flintstone slab of ribs, not that little dirty chicken bone to toss to the angry masses.

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    • SeanW
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:04am

      Get High refers to the runner’s high. Which, if one were to actually read and look into, is one of the best cures for drug and alcohol addiction. At least according to the research and studies done over the past 35 years.

      Secondly, yes it is terminology used by skaters, surfers, and the like. Guess what, while not all associated with these activities use drugs it is well known that skaters, surfers, snow boarders etc exist in a psuedo-drug culture.

      Finally, and most importantly, its called FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Can’t have it both ways, there is either freedom of speech and expression or there isn’t. There is no halfway, there is no partial freedom, there is freedom and there is the lack of freedom. Which side do you want to be on? :)

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    • coryf076
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:24am

      who cares…legalize weed, tax it and regulate it like alcohol and tobacco, and lets all move on! Unless you don’t believe the govt should look for new ways to make money to help pay for deficit reduction. We have lost the war on drugs, we have never won a battle, not even a skirmish. Weed is here to stay, people smoke it, get over it and move on…what ever happened to personal freedoms, liberty, and choice….see I am a conservative, maybe more libertarian, but this is what I’ll never understand about my fellow conservatives…when it comes to drugs, no choice, when it comes to abortion no choice. When it comes to everything else, conservatives are yelling about personal freedoms and choice…bottom line….get the damn government out of our lives and out of our wallets!

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    • last frontier
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:39am

      Hey AARON the country is in great shape, why don’t smoke another Doobie and take another nap, we will take it from here. I take it you choose medical marijuana for hemorrhoids?

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    • last frontier
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:41am

      Ronmoron why dont you go smoke a Doobie with AARON and take a nap as well.

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:57pm

      Now if they put out the “Just Do It” slogan AFTER the “Get High” slogan– “Just Do I” would take on a whole new meaning….

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    • Clive
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:38pm

      agreed maryjanesuncle…. who cares. if you dont like it, dont buy it. please give us actual news blaze, thanks.

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