ONDCP launches latest propaganda blitz

This is enough to make you lose your lunch. The ONDCP has launched it's latest disinformation campaign coyly titled "Facts for Parents," with a press release announcing, "ONDCP Print Ads Arm Parents with Scientific Data." The data is the same tired, long debunked propaganda, dredging up the not your father's pot, mental health risks and the ever popular pot is worse than cigarettes fictions among others. The ads, aimed at parents, are to likely to be as ineffective as the last campaign targeting the teens themselves was - that resulted in increased use among the group.

"We've done research with parents to determine what motivates them to take an active stance about marijuana with their teens, and we discovered that many parents say they don't have the accurate information or compelling facts they need to address this issue," said John P. Walters, Director of National Drug Control Policy. "These ads give parents some hard facts that they can use to have informed conversations with their kids about the negative consequences of marijuana.

Spare me. What rock would these parents have been living under? Not to mention I can't think of any worse way to talk to your kid about drugs than by trying to pass off prohibition science-fiction as fact.

In any event the PR industry will be thriving. Starting today, millions of your tax dollars will be paying for the ads to run in The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. During the course of the next four months, they will also appear in Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Time and Smithsonian magazines.