A dream catcher? Bit retograde no? Do you really want to further associate your product with hippies? Decent Sativa should make you alert and inquisitive – not noddling about confused as to the location of your headband.
There are plenty of good reasons to legalise, but an ad with stereotypical “hippy” imagery that still includes an attractive, scantily-dressed woman and a completely irrelevant cliché quote, is not one of them.
I will retract my “not bad” and give this a +1 instead
Gorev Mahagut
I think the idea here is to take something that used to represent “dropping out” of the industrial rat-race, and turn it into just another commercialised commodity. The value of anything is the jobs it creates (rather than work being the production things we value). Dissent from the market becomes impossible; the use of tired stereotypes is deliberate, as the aim is to undermine imagination itself.
It’s an interesting reading, but I really doubt that’s the aim of the creator. Particularly since having a look at the Twitter account it came from.
Nigel
Duh, Ya think?
Al Katraz
Good to see that your use of this mind-altering drug has blown your consciousness so wide open that you are able to think far beyond the usual sexist cliches that predominate mainstream advertising
pedeyw
Yeah, you can also practically hear the Ukelele song playing in the background.
So cabinets is for the men? That’s the message from the ad, right, that cabinets not for girls, like yorkie bars.
Liam
Unlikely… if cigarette advertising is banned, I doubt weed advertising would be allowed. It would almost certainly be subject to the same plain-packaging, smoking ban restrictions.
MoyestWithExcitement
I’d say it would be more like alcohol. Don’t advertise to kids and you’re more or less good.
You could argue that it should be more like alcohol, but I highly doubt it would go from being illegal to being as openly advertised as alcohol. Even if it did, alcohol advertising is becoming less acceptable and more restricted by the month.
SunnyDays
If cannabis were to be legalised with the same advertising restrictions as tobacco; then at least the senseless financial black hole which prohibition consumes would be gone and whole new market of opportunity opens up.
Remember how the Mafia gained most of it’s early financial stonghold was via the 1920’s alcohol prohibition of the US. The current equivalent is non-prescribed drug prohibition. (one often wonders how those who prescribe drugs which are “legal” are never accountable for the failure of that prescription)
Fully Keen
A radio show shut down head shops.
Get real.
Ireland will not be legalizing marijuana or heroin or speed or posh or crack or yer ma or meow mix anytime soon.
Let’s all try putting our efforts towards legalizing a non corrupt political system or broadband for all or abortion or…..
Delacaravanio
Cannabis legalisation is only a matter of time. Head shops were rightly shut down as they were selling their products “not for human consumption” (i.e. outright fraud).
Continuity Jay-Z
They need to mock up a Wickla jersey with a sponsor that sells drugs.
Then have a Galway Hurler flake a sliotar at a panes of glass with Anxiety, ennui, phlegmatic and such like written on it.
Also the Kush U.21 Football championship.
Tish Mahorey
I can’t stand that dreams quote. Almost as annoying as the Forest Gump quotes. Only idiots use them.
Rugbyfan
with you on a good few points today Tish!
Anne
It’d be great, we could all go around strung out, singing Kumbayah, withering our brains away, getting progressively more and more paranoid, or get schizophrenia, but it’s harmless shur..
Anne
Re the schizophrenia and cannabis.. I didn’t realise 1 in 20 could develop it through cannabis use, until I heard an interview with this guy on RTE –
Sir William published many papers with his colleagues in the Seventies, revealing for the first time evidence that even limited social use of cannabis could precipitate schizophrenia in people who previously had no psychological problems.
Not bad.
A dream catcher? Bit retograde no? Do you really want to further associate your product with hippies? Decent Sativa should make you alert and inquisitive – not noddling about confused as to the location of your headband.
Top point, the ad should be for indica, not sativa :)
Nice. Far less murderous than prohibition, and late nite outside-chipper-alcohol-ape-fights
There are plenty of good reasons to legalise, but an ad with stereotypical “hippy” imagery that still includes an attractive, scantily-dressed woman and a completely irrelevant cliché quote, is not one of them.
I will retract my “not bad” and give this a +1 instead
I think the idea here is to take something that used to represent “dropping out” of the industrial rat-race, and turn it into just another commercialised commodity. The value of anything is the jobs it creates (rather than work being the production things we value). Dissent from the market becomes impossible; the use of tired stereotypes is deliberate, as the aim is to undermine imagination itself.
*production OF things we value.
Sorry, I’m quite high a the moment.
It’s an interesting reading, but I really doubt that’s the aim of the creator. Particularly since having a look at the Twitter account it came from.
Duh, Ya think?
Good to see that your use of this mind-altering drug has blown your consciousness so wide open that you are able to think far beyond the usual sexist cliches that predominate mainstream advertising
Yeah, you can also practically hear the Ukelele song playing in the background.
+1 ooooooooohhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Purple Ohm, double dipped !
Still, I would
touché
So cabinets is for the men? That’s the message from the ad, right, that cabinets not for girls, like yorkie bars.
Unlikely… if cigarette advertising is banned, I doubt weed advertising would be allowed. It would almost certainly be subject to the same plain-packaging, smoking ban restrictions.
I’d say it would be more like alcohol. Don’t advertise to kids and you’re more or less good.
You could argue that it should be more like alcohol, but I highly doubt it would go from being illegal to being as openly advertised as alcohol. Even if it did, alcohol advertising is becoming less acceptable and more restricted by the month.
If cannabis were to be legalised with the same advertising restrictions as tobacco; then at least the senseless financial black hole which prohibition consumes would be gone and whole new market of opportunity opens up.
Remember how the Mafia gained most of it’s early financial stonghold was via the 1920’s alcohol prohibition of the US. The current equivalent is non-prescribed drug prohibition. (one often wonders how those who prescribe drugs which are “legal” are never accountable for the failure of that prescription)
A radio show shut down head shops.
Get real.
Ireland will not be legalizing marijuana or heroin or speed or posh or crack or yer ma or meow mix anytime soon.
Let’s all try putting our efforts towards legalizing a non corrupt political system or broadband for all or abortion or…..
Cannabis legalisation is only a matter of time. Head shops were rightly shut down as they were selling their products “not for human consumption” (i.e. outright fraud).
They need to mock up a Wickla jersey with a sponsor that sells drugs.
Then have a Galway Hurler flake a sliotar at a panes of glass with Anxiety, ennui, phlegmatic and such like written on it.
Also the Kush U.21 Football championship.
I can’t stand that dreams quote. Almost as annoying as the Forest Gump quotes. Only idiots use them.
with you on a good few points today Tish!
It’d be great, we could all go around strung out, singing Kumbayah, withering our brains away, getting progressively more and more paranoid, or get schizophrenia, but it’s harmless shur..
Re the schizophrenia and cannabis.. I didn’t realise 1 in 20 could develop it through cannabis use, until I heard an interview with this guy on RTE –
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1349398/Patrick-Cockburn-My-son-played-Russian-roulette-cannabis-lost.html
Sir William published many papers with his colleagues in the Seventies, revealing for the first time evidence that even limited social use of cannabis could precipitate schizophrenia in people who previously had no psychological problems.
Thank you for your borrowed analysis Anne.
The people who’s stuff you copy & paste must love you.
I’m a Herbalist meself.
You know that.
Funny that the people on this site think that YOU are the crazy one, eh?
-That must drive you mad, eh?
Lol
My son played Russian Roulette with a bag of Revels. He has a peanut allergy.
Kush is indica based not sativa.