Pete's Log: stupid government
Entry #1272, (Politics)(posted when I was 23 years old.)
yeah, so huh.
The Bush administration spent $180 million on a recent anti-drug advertising campaign aimed primarily at teenagers. Now a study has found that drug use did not decrease among teenagers that saw the ad. In fact, it found that among young teenage girls who saw the ad, drug use actually went up, because the ads possibly led them to believe that everyone was doing drugs, and so they wanted to try them as well. Nice work, government.
The best thing, of course, is that as a result of this study, John Walters, Bush's top drug policy adviser, is asking for more money for more advertisments. Does this seem crazy to anyone other than me?