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See The Graphic Ads Credited With Dramatically Decreasing Drug Usage in Montana

Montana Meth Project Uses Graphic Ads to Prevent Drug UseMethamphetamine is a drug that wreaks havoc upon its victims. In Montana, a state previously known for notoriously high rates of meth abuse, the landscape is beginning to change.

In the 2000s, the usage problem intensified, as meth-related arrests jumped 90 percent in the state, with the government there spending $300 million per year to fight the drug’s emerging dominance.

With the issue draining state coffers and with the lives of abusers hanging in the balance, Montana decided to target the problem in a unique way: Launching a series of dramatic and explicit advertisements targeted toward teens.

These PSAs, which were created by the privately-funded Montana Meth Project and which began airing back in 2005, have purportedly had a major impact. CBS News has more:

The results have been dramatic – teenage meth use is down 63 percent since the ads started running in 2005 and Montana, which used to rank 5th in the nation for meth abuse, now ranks 39th.

“These ads have changed the consciousness of an entire generation of teenagers,” said Cascade County District Attorney John Parker. “The ads don’t take a preachy tone. They don’t talk down to the kids but they lay out in very graphic very real terms how this can ruin lives.”

These ads have now made their way to at least eight other states, where decreases in meth use are also being observed. Below, see a report from CBS that explains the campaign, while sharing the devastating impact that meth has on individuals and communities, alike:

The following “shower” ad is graphic, but it shows the impact that the drug can have on young people:

Then, there’s the “just once” spot, which shows the impact that trying the drug only one time can have on an individual’s life:

This next video spot shows just how disturbing the ads can get, although proponents claim that it is these starting images that help to prevent usage, while saving lives:

You can find out more about the Montana Meth Project here.

(h/t CBS News)

Comments (165)

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  • PApeacemaker
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 11:08am

    D@mn I‘m glad that crap hasn’t it PA yet, I thought heroin was bad those kids looked like the walking dead with there cuts & scabs all over there bodies. An by the way Ron Paul never said legalize Meth he only said to legalize Pot, Cocaine, Opiates & Hallucinogens which most people can use in a responsible manner. Sure you’ll have your junkies like alcoholics with alcohol but once the US ends the stupid war on drugs & stops wasting billions of dollars a year it will knock the profit out of the drug market & screw the mexican & columbia cartels & they will loose there power & then & only then can they be crushed & stopped. Ill take a few thousand heroin addicts over 30,000 murdered people on the border any day of the week.

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  • Meyvn
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 11:06am

    Pathetic. So is the top pic a dude or chic?

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    • SpartanLiberty
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 11:15am

      They all look alike, nowadays. And if they don’t feeeeeeeel right about it, they just take a supplement and confide in other kids that are none the wiser.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 10:34am

      Hugely disturbing stuff. I saw the vids last night after midnight — couldn’t get to sleep untill after 3.

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    • ms-andrea
      Posted on September 23, 2011 at 11:39am

      Why does it matter?

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  • TexasStu
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 11:01am

    This PROVES BEYOND A DOUBT that the “war on drugs” does not work and never will. Education is the key to stopping the use and abuse of drugs plain and simple. Educate your kids and this will not happen let the system teach them and you will have a monster that even they cannot control.

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    • Kara_ite
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 11:05am

      You are correct.

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    • Jefferson
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 11:24am

      Ron Paul wants to LET THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DECIDE through the representation of THEIR STATES as to how they want to deal with this social and health issue. If the drugs weren’t ILLEGAL then there would be no profit nor incentive to sell them, and the bottom would drop out of the market overnight.
      Drug lords that manufacture this crap would be out of business overnight. And ads like this, which are effective, would help people to realize that doing meth is stupid.
      Every country that has legalized drug use, has had a DECREASE not an increase in drug use.
      Take away the profit from the illegality, and you destroy the market. Alcohol prohibition only created mobsters like Joseph Kennedy and Al Capone. Drug prohibition creates gangs like the Bushes, the Clintons (Mena Arkansas) and the border cartels which are infiltrating our cities. Do some research on Iran-Contra and how the CIA was/is funneling drugs into our country. Also research former DEA agent Cele Castillo who blew the whistle and wrote a book about it called “powderburns.”
      Also ask yourself WHY there have been record opium crops in Afghanistan EVERY SINGLE YEAR that the US has occupied that country, and you will see that the illegal drug market is VERY profitable.
      Why should our troops have to turn a blind eye to this activity which is funding the Taliban, and the corrupt Hamid Karzai puppet Govt.? SHAMEFUL. Bring ‘em HOME!! Protect OUR BORDERS.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_54LJMwG4E

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    • Umpire463
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 11:31am

      You believe that legalizing a dangerous drug and making it MORE readily available, and legal to sell out in the open, will REDUCE illegal sales…the way Prohibition eliminated alcohol sales? or the way alcohol and tobacco are impossible for minors to get today? Has Quasi-Legal marijuana made it more difficult to get illegally…NO. It creates a whole new set of problems and no fewer addicts. They will still beat up and ROB Grandma to get the same drugs they can’t afford, but Cops won’t be able to arrest them for the Drugs, they’ll have to wait until someone gets hurt before they can lock up the addict….No thanks.

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    • Jefferson
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 11:33am

      The “war on drugs” IS A FAILURE. A multi BILLION DOLLAR failure. Education is one of the keys. Prohibition is not.
      Drug lords that manufacture this crap would be out of business overnight. And ads like this, which are effective, would help people to realize that doing meth is stupid.
      Every country that has legalized drug use, has had a DECREASE not an increase in drug use.
      Take away the profit from the illegality, and you destroy the market. Alcohol prohibition only created mobsters like Joseph Kennedy and Al Capone. Drug prohibition creates gangs like the Bushes, the Clintons (Mena Arkansas) and the border cartels which are infiltrating our cities. Do some research on Iran-Contra and how the CIA was/is funneling drugs into our country. Also research former DEA agent Cele Castillo who blew the whistle and wrote a book about it called “powderburns.”
      Also ask yourself WHY there have been record opium crops in Afghanistan EVERY SINGLE YEAR that the US has occupied that country, and you will see that the illegal drug market is VERY profitable.
      Why should our troops have to turn a blind eye to this activity which is funding the Taliban, and the corrupt Hamid Karzai puppet Govt.? SHAMEFUL. Bring ‘em HOME!! Protect OUR BORDERS.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_54LJMwG4E

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    • DrFrost
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 11:33am

      I find this approach very interesting. I seem to recall England commissioning painters to paint victims of some STD in the 1500′s or so and putting those paintings around London in an attempt to educate people and discourage the sort of behavior that was spreading it… but I can’t seem to find a reference to it anywhere now. Sort of a mass media approach to “Scared Straight.”

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    • givemelibertyorgivemedeath
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:12pm

      You are 100% correct. My kids are young but I am always educating them on drugs. You can’t give them too much freedom either. It’s just the world we live in. I told them already, if they even so much as smoke a joint…they will get an old fashioned beating like they never got before. Lost too many people to drugs… my dad, cousin, friends. Not worth it.

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    • american1st
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:51pm

      if it is a states rights issue (and it should be) not all states will legalize or decriminalize…..but some will try different options and come up with new tactics (like these adds) that do work — the top down big government (expensive) federal war on drugs has failed..
      i don’t know what the best combination of laws, liberty, and education will be, but i sure as hell support trying to figure it out!!!
      lets give the states the chance to fix the drug problem, the nanny state has failed with drugs just as clearly as alcohol prohibition failed….

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    • runchel_
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 1:20pm

      correct! I live in Bozeman mt and have seen the effect. Francis Bacon was a smart guy after all!?! “knowledge is power”

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    • Marci
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 2:13pm

      Very true. The “war on drugs” has just been the threat of jail. Not a solution and not enough to make someone consider not doing it.

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    • Rowgue
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 2:47pm

      @JEFFERSON

      Whether the ‘war on drugs’ is a failure is a fair debate to have. Whether the government has the right to dictate that certain things are illegal is a fari debate to have.

      However your point about other countries legalizing drugs and seeing drops in drug use is completely made up and idiotic.

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    • deeberj
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 3:36pm

      Education, but not the crap they do in schools. That stuff is a joke to the kids. I listened to some of the radio ads, and they are meth addicts talking about how it ruined their lives. That is the kind of education people need, besides parents really teaching their kids and not just telling them to “just say no”.

      Bad parenting and living in drug infested areas where using is considered normal are big factors also.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 3:52pm

      so until then…light ‘em up, shoot ‘em up, sniff ‘em up….right?

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    • Antisocial_ist
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:04pm

      @ TexasStu “Quote”
      This PROVES BEYOND A DOUBT that the “war on drugs” does not work and never will. Education is the key to stopping the use and abuse of drugs plain and simple. Educate your kids and this will not happen let the system teach them and you will have a monster that even they cannot control. “Quote”

      Amen Brother

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    • DJ in AZ
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:27pm

      The war on drugs needs to happen on multiple fronts. Yes, we need to educate people…absolutely. Education is the key. But along with that, we should continue to work to stop the flow of drugs to our country. And, we need to keep the laws that we have in place that criminalize the distribution and use of such substances, for these substances really do harm individuals and society.

      I think we can do much better on the education side. These ads look like they are very effective. Doing drugs certainly isn’t glamorous. I’ve had one friend and one relative commit suicide because of these drugs. It’s an awful, awful thing to endure, not only for the users but also for the friends and families of the users.

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    • WeeeDontNeeedNoSteeenkinBadges
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:34pm

      “See The Graphic Ads Credited With Dramatically Decreasing Drug Usage in Montana”

      Wait a second! ** Where’s the dramatic “no knock” police break-down-the-door ads? ** Where’s the police shoot-to-kill an elderly couple in a wrong-house raid? ** Where is the court-involved entrapment cases that send innocent accused to life imprisonment?

      Now THOSE would dramatically decrease drug use … in NAZI GERMANY.

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    • Doc
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 8:40pm

      Education certainly has a significant place but we don’t have a war on drugs… it’a just play acting. Treat dealing as a Capital offense and using as accessory to murder (it is, you know) and things might start to change. Legalize pot if you wish but the rest get serious consequences. Pass a drug test to get any kind of government assistance or services (driver’s license for example) or employment with any company that has anything to do with a governmental entity (almost everyone). If you think addiction is not a problem, you’re simply to stupid to even acknowledge.

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    • 4blackhorses
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:30pm

      On the spot. And it has to be grahpic education such as these ads, not merely words coming from an “old person.” I remember when I was a Junior in highschool back in the sixties long before drugs were the rage, a State Patrolman came to the highschool with a slide show of accidents… the victims, intact or not, still remaining in the show. You never seen so well mannered drivers coming out of a highschool parking lot!! And it lasted!

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    • Jwmajic
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:31pm

      You are correct you have to go after demand not supply but also we need better rehab programs. The way things are now addicts get clean then get tossed back into the environment that made them addicts in the first place…these addicts need follow up care housing and job programs not just methadone.

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    • Lord_Frostwind
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:33pm

      Do not make the mistake of thinking legalizing will take the problems away. Look back at history, this will be the third cycle of legalization and tolerance of drug use. There is a reason why the other two cycles ended. Learn from it or continue the endless waltz.

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    • jaylew
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 1:51pm

      Precisely Texasstu….you are spot on dead right.

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    • Obeeone
      Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:53pm

      Educate only and you have a smart addict. Educate with trained self discipline and you get a brilliant non addict.

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  • Bic
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:56am

    NOW who wants to make drugs legal?

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    • Kara_ite
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:59am

      I want to make all drugs legal. Do you think we would sell drugs to anyone under 21? That would be illegal, but they would still take drugs. Do you think the laws are working?

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    • jsguero
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 11:33am

      Kara_ite. . . I agree that me educating my kids is paramount; after all, if I’ve got kids, shouldn’t I be a parent?.

      HOWEVER. The ridiculous and dangerous notion of legalizing drugs to help “control” them, is flatly stupid.

      Look at the issues that we have, society wide, in practically every facet of society, due to the “legal” drugs we have (and for this statement, I include alcohol as a drug). In this light, I cannot see any good, be it taxes, regulation, or the ubiquitous “control”, coming from legalizing drugs that are many, many, many more times addictive and destructive than those we already have.

      At least with its illegality, it makes it (marginally) more difficult and less prevalent.

      Of course, if people and parents would actually take responsibility and turn in or dissuade those IDIOTS that dabble or deal. . . .

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    • T.Durden
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 2:27pm

      We can’t even keep drugs out of our prisons, how in the heck are you going to keep them out of the COUNTRY?

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    • Rowgue
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 2:51pm

      The law doesn’t prevent people from murdering people either. I guess we should legalize that so we can get it under control as well huh?

      I really wonder whether some people realize just how stupid they sound sometimes.

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    • Mr. Vitriol
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 3:34pm

      I personally like the ads. They are effective. Kids are very visual-oriented and learn best when they SEE examples. The whole legalize thing is up in the air for me. I have kids and I have and will continue to take them to church each week and teach them how drugs destroy lives. That’s MY responsibility as a parent, but I don’t mind a little help from ads like this…thanks to whoever made them.

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    • WeeeDontNeeedNoSteeenkinBadges
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:38pm

      Bic – “NOW who wants to make drugs legal?”

      Better questions:
      * who want to make drugs ILLEGAL?
      * and then make a WAR ON DRUGS?
      * and then make a POLICE STATE to conduct it?

      (Not us.)

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    • Security Mom
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:12pm

      I would be in favor of drugs being legal only if I had the legal right to shoot addicts in the face if they came anywhere near me.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 3:10am

      We should at least stop subsidizing drug use. If you want a government check, then be subject to random drug testing.

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  • JLGunner
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:56am

    I wonder if Ron Paul will pull his head out of his a$$ long enough to watch these ads?

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    • Kara_ite
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 11:03am

      Ron Paul knows that there are only 11.5% of people who are addicted to drugs. 88.5% are not drug addicts. We spend Billions of dollars a year to keep 11.5% of people away from drugs. How is that working for you.
      This ad campaign is working. The war on drugs is a failure.

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    • JLGunner
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 11:33am

      Wow Kara, when did you last discussed stats with Ronnie? Why is it relevant to attach the stat and his name? Making drugs legal is not the answer. I‘m just surprised that you didn’t use the old “the governmant could tax it” angle. You closet liberals need to get a grip on reality and realise just how much crime drug abusers / users are responsible for.

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    • Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:10pm

      People that think that Ron Paul wants drugs legalized just show how little they understand the constitution and how badly they fail to comprehend what he is saying.

      He already said he doesn’t think drugs should be legal. He thinks it should be a state law and not a federal mandate. He’s in favor of having the law set at the state level, the way the constitution says it should be. WHY IS THAT SO HARD TO COMPREHEND? No wonder you like Bachman and Perry. Those morons represent morons like you.

      Get your head out of YOUR a55 and listen for five minutes, idiot.

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    • WeeeDontNeeedNoSteeenkinBadges
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:57pm

      **ALERT ** ALERT **

      2 MILLION AMERICANS HELD PRISONER IN WAR!!

      No, not in Iraq. Try … in good ol’ U.S. of A.! That’s right!! U.S. Federal & State governments presently hold over 2 million Americans prisoner (mostly for “drug offenses”).
      http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/282/twomillion.shtml

      (There now … is your cell all comfy?)

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  • kindling
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:39am

    I went in to a store to buy hay fever pills for my kids and me and was told I had to buy only one box because of a law which is trying to stop meth labs. I had no idea how it is made and asked why. I am surprised to know meth makers use something that is over the counter. So if we know what is used why don’t we either stop making sudafed or make it lots harder to get. I say there are so many products that work for drippy noses we should just stop producing sidafedrine (or how ever it is spelled) all together. I should think saving our children is way more important than a runny nose. But it is all about money and someone out there is making more money by having our children’s lives ruined. GET RID OF THAT OTC DRUG!

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    • Kara_ite
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:58am

      As an asthma sufferer I have had my inhalent changed because of Al Gore, now I won’t be able to get Pseudoephedrine because of Meth addicts, that makes no sense to me at all. We pander to the evil people and forget about the 89% who don’t do illegal drugs. Come on people.
      When drugs are legal there are 11.5% of the population who are addicts. When drugs are illegal we have 11.5% of the population who are addicts.

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    • UTSheepDog
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 11:15am

      First: The other “drippy nose” medications don’t work for me. Pseudoephedrine does. We can’t outlaw everything people will use to get high. Otherwise we’d have to outlaw carburetor cleanor, spray paint, many glues, gasoline, etc.

      Second: If drugs are LEGAL you really think that only 11.5% would do them? Have drunk driving, drunken brawls, keg parties increased or decreased since prohibition? Look at states where “medical marijuana” is legal, has usage gone up or down?

      I personally am ok with legalizing all drugs as long as you need a “drug license” to get them and in order to obtain the license you must: 1. Be 21 years old, 2. Sign away all eligibility to welfare and other government social programs, 3. Be sterilized and sign away all parental rights to any existing children.

      And another thing, if the marijuana is medicinal, why can’t it just be sold through pharmacies like everything else. Why do we need special medical marijuana outlets with designer weed?

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    • SDmom
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:04pm

      UTSHEEPDOG, you took the words right out of my mouth. If I have to show my id and sign my name just to get Sudafed (which does not impair my judgement or make me high) then medical marijuana user should have to at least do the same.
      I applaude the Montana board for the developing these ads. I hope every state follows their lead.

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    • HisBortness
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:16pm

      UTSheepDog,

      Instead of asking hypothetical questions and using their unsubstantiated connotations as an “argument,” try looking up the statistics yourself and then citing them. You’ll seem a lot more effective.

      And the reasons that the medical marijuana dispensaries are the way they are right now is very simply because of POLITICS. Nothing else. There aren’t too many politicians who want to go out on a limb and advocate for legalizing various drugs, because as soon as someone is killed or injured as a result of the drug use, the pol would get lynched.

      And SDMom, medical marijuana users DO have to show IDs, and even have to get state-government approved prescription cars. So it’s not like you just walk into a dispensary and walk out with a quarter pound of Hindu Kush. Do a little poking around and find out what the real situation is before making yourself sound silly.

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    • HisBortness
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:20pm

      Meant to say “prescription carDs”. Sorry ’bout that. My first post and there’s a typo… :/

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    • JLGunner
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:28pm

      Kara, you sure are beatin’ the piss out of your new found stats. I think we got your closet liberal point.

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    • restless 1
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 1:16pm

      @HisBortness

      That may be technically true, but you can walk into any marijuana dispensory in Las Vegas, see the “doctor” in the front, and walk out the back with weed.

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    • deeberj
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 3:39pm

      Getting rid of perfectly useful OTC drugs aren’t the answer. If someone is hell bent on cooking up meth they’ll find the ingredients they need somewhere.

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  • Hemingway in Cuba
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:34am

    The most shocking thing about these ads….they are done by a private organization and not the government. It is not surprising that they are getting results because they want the biggest bang for the bucks. Well done!

    “The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

    http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=21641

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    • JLGunner
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 11:00am

      Hemingway was a socialist, barack is a socialist.

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  • 5th generation american
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:32am

    NOTICE! Privately funded-no government! I am from Montana and these ads are so real. Knew people with “meth-mouth” (rotten teeth) and the results of using. Donated money provided this great service. There are many more ads than the ones shown here.

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  • JQCitizen
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:14am

    Horrible Looking ads; But, WONDERFUL NEWS about the RESULTS!!

    The TRUTH will ALWAYS set you FREE!!!!!

    Go, Go, Go, with these ads!!!

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  • loriann12
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:04am

    maybe erectile disfunction? That would hinder a lot of teenagers.

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  • Debber
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:03am

    Excellent!

    It’s just such a glamorous lifestyle, isn’t it?

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  • MontanaRob
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:56am

    I have been watching these ads since the beginning and waiting for good news. There were positive results almost immediately. I have no problem whatsoever with the graphic content, on the contrary I see it as the only truly effective method to make a point with many people any more.

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  • westfayetteville
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:45am

    I am/was(not sure after see this) against the new cigarette packs with the pictures of dead people,tooth loss, cancered lungs, ect. If an ad could help keep kids off drugs, maybe the cig ad will help keep people from starting smoking( I do smoke, wish I would have never started)

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    • HuskerDave
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:41am

      Don’t water down this Meth message with a comparison to tobacco. That’s what went wrong with the DARE program. You can‘t convince kids that they shouldn’t do dangerous drugs, when you put them on equal footing with cigarettes and beer.

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    • RejectFalseIcons
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:57am

      If you want to stop, the electronic cigarette is the answer. I switched a year ago and my health has completely turned around. Look into it on the internet.

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  • spudwhite
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:28am

    Excellent ads, I hope these go nationwide 24/7 and on all social media as well. This is a horrible drug. Bravo Montana.

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  • aesaac
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:27am

    I would like to see these kinds of ads involving abortions – it is only video reality that can teach change to a video culture.

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  • OldVietVet
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:26am

    Whatever works!

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:35am

      Propaganda doesn’t work.

      Marijuana does work to get people off hard deadly drugs.

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    • TangoBravo
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:22pm

      If propaganda didn’t work, the commercials wouldn’t work. Therefore Propaganda does work because it is used to further a cause like getting kids to not use meth.
      I’ve seen kids on meth (used to teach high risk kids through the No Child Left Behind Act). Some came in because they‘d been so strung out on meth they couldn’t function anymore. Beautiful children (ages 12-15) with scars on their faces from meth bugs, they looked like walking corpses and it was a most horrible thing to witness.
      Anything that works I am behind even if it means scaring the living crap out of the kids. Which those commercials do. Some of the kids I taught have come into the college I work at and tested at college level. They were the ones who didn’t do the drugs and just needed the one on one attention & teaching. The others I haven’t seen & it breaks my heart. Who knows if they are still alive. I wish those commercials had been around then.
      Thank you Montana, I hope your commercials go nationwide and save our youth.

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    • JLGunner
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 2:08pm

      Marijuana will also help to keep one’s keester in the “lazy”boy doing what dope smokers do best… nothing.

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  • SgtB
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:26am

    Those people look like half the people I saw at the state fair last week. I knew they were all meth heads!

    Great ads Montana. I think people deserve all the information they can get their hands on before they decide to make a decision, no matter how stupid their question is.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:38am

      Where do all those people come from at State, or county fairs? I never see these weird people before or after the county fair. Goth kids, with rings in every part of their head, pants three sizes too big, tatooed freaks. They disappear just as fast.

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  • Dustyluv
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:20am

    This may work for a while. Not in the long run. Parents have become “friends” with their kids instead of their guide and guardians in early life.. No amount of money can be thrown at drug abuse to correct the problem long term.

    Legalize all drugs, including prescription drugs. If someone gives them to kids, they get 50 years in prison. If an adult wants to ruin their lives, let them. It’s called FREEDOM and the people who understand freedom will also understand responsibility. We have spent billions of dollars putting people behind bars for drugs. Bilions of dollars for treatment programs that for the most part do not work. Time to stop the nonsense and to put teeth into the real peoblem of harming kids and let irresponsibility take it’s own course in life. We reward those who fail by treatment programs, cooshy jails and coddling. Let them hit bottom and see what it means to have self responsibility. If they want help, they can seek out hurches, private companies and other charitable organizations that do not rob the taxpayer of money to fund them…

    None of my money should go to anyone who wants to kill themselves or ruin their lives with drugs. I dont use drugs and never will. I even think before I take an asprin. Legalizing drugs will cause a decrease of drug usage. We will probably never try it because we have too many law enforcement agencies that depend on funding from fighting drugs…Money FOOLISHLY spent.

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    • Rightofwayne
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:04pm

      If Drugs are legalized as you advocate, then I will want to be given legal right to kill any puke who tries to sell or give them to my kids. Kids are vulnerable to the foolishness of liars who offer them utopia but deliver to them hell. I agree that adults need to be responsible for themselves, and if they are drug users, they get zero assistance from Government, and if they are caught stealing to support their habit, they are given hard labor building public projects for ten years and a tent to live in within a secure compound.

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  • Fight for America
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:17am

    I don’t know if these ads scared the parents who then kept their children under their control almost 24/7 or if they got through to the kids. Either way, the outcome described about less meth use, etc. is great news.

    Meth is not a one time drug. It’s not a single beer or a lone cigarette. It’s not sneaking out to see a concert. It is a road to death.

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  • azsmitty
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:14am

    Reality counters the “wink n nod” handling that hollweird uses concerning drug use. Seldom is the portrayal anything close to how drugs really affect users. People presented with real life consequence of drug abuse choose to avoid drugs.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:32am

      These are ingenious commercials created by ones dedicated to helping these kids. I hope it catches on all across our nation and continents. The Communist agenda has been to demoralize our nation..one child at a time. I’m glad we are learning how some real troopers in this country are learning to strike back and save minds and lives. Glory be to God. I was just thinking yesterday after reading about the Union organizer who was talking about illiciting crisises via community organizing…that we should have some community organizing of our own..then I thought..we do..it’s called the Tea Party. Massive efforts people…headed up by the direction of Yashua and our Father YHWH …aka God and Jesus. Pray…Pray …Pray..Love to all.

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  • UlyssesP
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:13am

    Crack might be whack, but meth is DEATH!
    Nice ads.

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  • Ookspay
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:09am

    Doesn’t Ron Paul want to legalize this crap?

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    • Professional Infidel
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:14am

      Knowledge is power!! Keep pumping it out there!! Good stuff!!

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    • Erabin
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:15am

      That works too. See: Portugal. Quite an interesting case, actually.

      http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=portugal-drug-decriminalization

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:23am

      OOKSPY…You might want to look at what happens when you take control off drugs. Do a little research on countries that have done so. It will save taxpayers billions upon billions of dollars and free our prisons up for real criminals…

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    • Tizzodd70
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:32am

      Its comments like that witch explain our need for things like dumbed down political correctness or legislative bills that should only be one page but instead are 1000.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:40am

      Ron Paul does seem to want to legalize everything..even prostitution and drugs and give everyone a choice. He also says he wants to build a fence or something ridiculous like that to stop illegals..when if fact all that needs to be done is pulling benefits from them and they would have no reason to come or to stay. We are losing 338.3 billion on them a year. That money could sure go to reducing our trillions in debt.

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    • HuskerDave
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:42am

      Excellent point, Ookspray.

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    • Jefferson
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 11:20am

      Ron Paul wants to LET THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DECIDE through the representation of THEIR STATES as to how they want to deal with this social and health issue. If the drugs weren’t ILLEGAL then there would be no profit nor incentive to sell them, and the bottom would drop out of the market overnight.
      Drug lords that manufacture this crap would be out of business overnight. And ads like this, which are effective, would help people to realize that doing meth is stupid.
      Every country that has legalized drug use, has had a DECREASE not an increase in drug use.
      Take away the profit from the illegality, and you destroy the market. Alcohol prohibition only created mobsters like Joseph Kennedy and Al Capone. Drug prohibition creates gangs like the Bushes, the Clintons (Mena Arkansas) and the border cartels which are infiltrating our cities. Do some research on Iran-Contra and how the CIA was/is funneling drugs into our country. Also research former DEA agent Cele Castillo who blew the whistle and wrote a book about it called “powderburns.”
      Also ask yourself WHY there have been record opium crops in Afghanistan EVERY SINGLE YEAR that the US has occupied that country, and you will see that the illegal drug market is VERY profitable.
      Why should our troops have to turn a blind eye to this activity which is funding the Taliban, and the corrupt Hamid Karzai puppet Govt.? SHAMEFUL. Bring ‘em HOME!! Protect OUR BORDERS.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_54LJMwG4E

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    • Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:44pm

      “Durrr Hey I heard Ron Paul wants to legalize all this crap. Durrrrrrr”

      The problem with the Tea Party is that it functions as a catch-all for simple-minded people like you who need everything to be boiled down to a bumper sticker slogan in order for you to understand it.

      Ron Paul wants it to be a state’s rights issue, not a federal mandate. He wants it to be handled the way the Constitution dictates.

      Why are so many people so unable to understand that? Isn’t the Tea Party supposed to love the Constitution? Why haven’t they even read it?

      You don’t understand Ron Paul at all. You only understand generalizations and basic ideas.

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    • IndyNWguy
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 5:36pm

      No. If you paid attention you’d know that.

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  • kentuckypatriot
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:08am

    These should be shown in ALL states. Obviously, they are very powerful, I was scared watching them.

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  • liriadavila
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:06am

    I’m 51 but It is really scary. Sometimes reality is hard.

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  • NuffSaid
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:01am

    I hear Oscar.

    Congratulations Montana. Effective, Poignant. True.

    They should use a picture of Janet Napolitano at a US soldier’s funeral to show what happens to people when they enter federal civil service jobs.

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