These billboards produced by the Montana Meth Project are pretty striking. The question is: are they going to convince people not to do crystal meth?
Montana Meth Project’s Billboards
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I’m from eastern Europe, from a small town and all this is pretty distant to me as here you cant by hard drugs (meth, cocaine, heroin, etc) BUT you can by all kind of other stuff like glue, anesthetics, pot, “mushrooms” (from the woods), legal highs, alcohol etc. and people do drugs. My point is, no mater what people will use drugs and making it illegal makes the case worse, why?, because kids will eat mushrooms from the woods, buy glue (bad quality glue) from hardware store. How about doing all this in a more civilized way because people will do it anyway…
Meth is bad and should be illegal. It fucks up your life and gives you meth face. I’ve personally seen it happen to many people I cared about. Pot is good, it doesn’t give you meth face and the only reason it’s illegal is because the government is a big bully that won’t let americans have their own way in our “democratic” nation. Don’t Forget your Methface!
@Uhu
Bad quality glue? I always give my little brother the best quality glue money can buy! I ‘ve warned him about sniffing those “bad quality” glues a million times.
I know it’s been said in the comments but I have to reiterate. Meth is fucked up. It will absolutely destroy your body mind and soul. It does so much damage to the pleasure center of the brain that meth is the only thing that can bring happiness of any kind. A friend of mine has been clean for about 3 years and is depressed all the time. He says he thinks about it constantly and doesn’t think he will ever feel normal again. Entire communities have been destroyed by meth. I’m against negative propaganda that spreads lies, but this is one of the rare cases that the truth is much worse than even these pictures depict.
HAHAHAHAHA. Oh God. Wow.
Stop believing these stupid propaganda advertisements. ADVERTISING is, like, 10x worse than meth will ever be.
They did the same shit for weed 30 years ago. You will see. Our children will laugh at us for being afraid of this stuff.
Learn to accept ! Stop being ignorant.
Legalize all drugs, make them pure and only available from the liquor/cannabis store. It would reduce the damage to the body, stop the pollution of the environment from clandestine meth labs, and give cops more time to find real bad guys. It would stop the black market overnight and the violence associated with it too. No more Mexican drug cartels, what a bummer eh? Sometimes problems can be solved with the pen a lot better than with troops and drug dogs, etc. Write your representatives and insist they end the “war on drugs”!!! It is a war on us!
Are you fucking kidding me Shk?
If you are ‘pro-meth’, then anyone should know that you are an idiot and should not be listened to in the first place.
Meth is 10000000x worse than depicted here.
…you were stupid enough to do it, apparently.
lol i agree with you melee. shk is retarded. meth is a vile drug. people HAVE and DO do the things in these ads.
and toad we don’t need to legalize all drugs cause even the legal addictive drugs like oxycontin cause people commit robbery and who knows what else for there next fix. legalizeing weed and shrooms is fine enough.
how could anyone be pro meth when people are out there stealing and harming just to get it?
it’s disgusting.
drugs like this are for weak and stupid people.
@kreiyu
oxycontin isnt legal, its legal with prescription. its actually a felony if you get caught with it w/o a prescription. and weed is the same way as this just not a felony. fuck pigs and government regulation. theyre the drug dealers
All of you people that aren’t afraid of meth should have your head examined. You don’t even have to be the person addicted for it to effect your life. All those “pictures” of the people with “meth face” that shit is real and I have seen it with my own eyes. You people need to open yours!
Yeah I was stupid enough to get into the meth scene in Portland Or in the mid 90’s… after seeing a pregnant 14 year old shoot up meth, for her fist time doing meth, I thought hmmmm… maybe this shit is fucked up. Five years of heavy use meth-face shadow chasing malnutrition later I spent 6 months in treatment. Now I smoke a little weed, a few dark fizzies on the weekend, life has returned to me by the grace of god. Meth almost killed me, dead.
These pictures are good. They still don’t depict what its really like, I imagine pictures like that would break a few laws.
ATTN: It is not the responsibility of you or the government or fucking anyone to tell people what they can and can’t do in the privacy of their own homes if they are not harming ANYONE ELSE. You can harm yourself all you want, and frankly, I’m more than a little unnerved by the fact that everyone feels they need to play super-hero when it comes to hard drugs. If someone wants to throw their life away, it’s not your fucking problem and it’s not your fucking choice. Seriously, people need to stop censoring other people’s behaviors and learn to get past it. You’re doing nothing for society but hindering natural selection. Grow the fuck up and worry about yourself for a change.
I hate that argument, ” If you legalised it, people wouldn’t go to the lengths they do to get get and yadda yadda yadda less damage less violence etc… ” because it’s just not true. Someone at the top mentioned about advertising up there. If you think advertising against drugs is bad, you don’t think it would be overwhelming if it was legal? The corners that corporations cut in the real world on everyday products atm is crazy, legalising drugs wouldn’t change that at all. Infact, they’d have a product they know they could sell, in bucket loads so they’d be cutting corners, with their massive ad campaigns and shoving it in your face every turn you took. Imagine a McDonalds/Coca Cola type thing, but for Meth. It’s not a nice picture is it?
As far as the weed thing goes, the only reason it’s illegal is because of a logging tycoon about 80 odd years ago who was losing competition in his paper division because hemp was cheaper for the consumer. So he managed to get it illegalised. So that’s wy that’s illegal, not because of it’s harmful effects or your dodgy “democratic nation.” as someone else put it. They didn’t know the effects back then, it’s only in the last 40 or so years that people have really begun understanding the true dangers of drugs. And the long lasting effects which aren’t highlighted in this campaign.
In my experience, one drug leads to another, invariably about 90% of the time. We just can’t afford to legalise these things. A nation on legal drugs?
What is it, it’s in the hundreds of thousands those who become addicted to prescription painkillers and die every year in the US alone … Now put those people on Meth or whatever else you want to legalise …
Fabulous ads! Maybe this will make people stop and think prior to ruining their lives…
I am all for something that would get me laid for 15$
Go meth!!!!!
Not all drugs should be legalised only the ones that have proven to be not physicaly addictive. Like weed, shrooms, acid and such. You have control over your own life, people who get in trouble for doing drugs shouldn’t do them. I did and do weed, acid, shrooms, and salvia. I’m a student at an university, and my grades are fine, so some people just can’t handle drugs in their life, to bad for them, but let me enjoy my drugs in peace.
@post 15: dude, family guy should not be your only source of cannabis history. mostly because quoting family guy is old hat, but also because you’re spreading misinformation.
if you believe that shit sure blame it on the drug its not the person doing the drug right they have nothing to with it
I have seen one of my best friend’s boyfriend get addicted to meth. I may not have seen everything but I was there for some of his come downs where he got mad at the smallest thing. I wouldnt even go near him, I was so scared. I was there for the highs, and my friends cries. He swore to god he loved her guess he loved the drugs more.
Meth is just a stimulant. It’s like caffeine X1000, the reason people get “fucked up” on it is because people cut it to make more money. If it was legal, people wouldn’t have to share needles, stopping diseases from spreading, and with out the other, actually toxic chemicals used to cut it, it wouldn’t make people sick unless they took too much. But even if they did take too much, there would be less of a chance they would die, because someone would call 911 for them, without fear of being arrested for using it. The war on drugs is what is killing people, not drugs themselves.
Meth is death! Smoke weed instead!
@concerned citizen
It may be their choice to use hard drugs, but then when they are found half dead and put into a state funded program or prison, it’s my tax dollars that keep them alive, and at that point, it is my business to say that who ever uses meth is a fuck up, waste of air and so on and so on.
I recommend discontinuing these ads. The day one of our children meets the meth user who doesn’t look like these ads or behave in this way, and they will, is the day all the ads are rendered complete propaganda. Learn from the “Reefer Madness” campaign.
Unfortunately…just like with “Reefer Madness,” these ads can create a lot of confusion among the general populous. While the situations depicted in these ads may be true for some, they are probably pretty rare. The old saying you can’t have your cake and eat it too comes to mind. If Meth is the epidemic level problem for so many of our good citizens, and meth leads to the behavior and look depicted in the ads, why then do we not see these individuals, in real life, everywhere we go.
The other sad fact, is people with real health conditions, of which they have no control, like advanced neuropathy caused by problems with circulation, can have these same body and facial sores. Because of these ads, I have seen these poor people labeled “drug addicts” by those who don’t know any better.
I once knew a person who was a recovering addict who had stolen things from friends, including me, to “pay for his habit.” He continued to be a thief after his addiction was under control. Hmmm…I think the person who implied these individuals are morally corrupt prior to their meth use was right.
I happen to be a proud meth user of 12 years and i can say it is the best thing that ever happened to me..if it wasn’t for meth than i would have never met my beautiful wife and had 2 lovely kids(who also use by the way) i would have never been blessed with my career(its actually more fun than you think to be a melon farmer) and i would have never contracted aids.
I used to be a meth addict and trust me, it’ll fuck up yur life. i thought just like everyone else “I’ll just do it once”. But man i was hooked o that shit from the first puff. I’ve had to get my face reconstructed because i got beaten almost to death over a bad drug deal. Had to get skin graphs all over my body because i peeled off my own skin. But i’m better now:) (thanks to the Caron Rehab Center of Texas) But seriously, dont ever even try it.
Meth is such a disgusting drug. Meth does ruin your life. I know first hand, not because I took meth, but because I lived with meth addicts for 5 years, my parents. It destroys you, those people I was living with were not my real parents, they were just shells of what my parents looked like. I felt like a was living in an insane asylum. I didn’t know anything about meth, I just thought my parents were losing it. My 3 younger sisters and I would hide in our bedroom from our parents to try to escape the abuse. The people on here that say good things about meth, you must be on it and in denial because nobody in their right mind would say that. I will spend the rest of my life fighting against meth.
Meth = permanent brain damage due to toxicity (being the only widely used drug that I know of which causes physical damage to the brain).
In saying that:
Meth =/= insanity, apart from in /some/ people with predispositions to psychosis anyway.
Therefore:
Meth =/= Clawing at bugs under your skin, ‘n shit like that, being normal.
For all you people that think it’s an individuals choice to use meth and doesn’t affect anyone else, yo are wrong, and probably have fried your own brain with meth. Work for one day in a busy emergency department and see the destruction drugs cause, blocking up a the dept for sick people, keeping police busy with their episodes of psychosis, violence on the streets, crime to get money to buy drugs, destruction of families, the impact on others is beyond comprehension.
If only it was as easy as natural selection and they just locked themselves in a room and shot up without bothering anyone else. Naive.
The problem with Meth is you can never recover from it. It permanently damages your mind and body and will never heal. If you’re addicted to Meth, your better off just doing it for life.
Meth is a dirty nasty drug, I know because I did it for years, I know what it’s made from and cut with.
I am now a middle aged woman with a proper job, no drugs and two children. However I have lost teeth from my years of doing meth and I did pick holes in my skin and looked like shit.
I am not saying I did all the things in the billboards but if you do meth you WILL go places and DO things you never dreamed of!
My husband is a former meth user, same as his parents, and they have never done any of these things, so I think you are grossly misinformed.
Instead of saying “Meth is bad” why don’t we start saying “Enjoy life, drug free” or maybe “Find a creative hobby”. It’s like the difference between an anti-war and peace rally.
It’s my opinion that peace rallies are easier, and much more fun.
those bill boards ARE BULLSHIT…my girlfriend i turned out gets me @ least 30 bucks a blowjob…seriously. 15 bux cmon . ive been getting high for off and on for years and the stuff is like a home invasion or senseless drive by shooting not beating up your mom ll===shootup or shutup
Only in america would people even get a little tempted to smoke something that includes even a little bit of paint thinner……. WTF!
the fact of the matter is people are always going to use drugs in our society whether we like it or not. Everyone has their vices, so i think punishing people (i.e. imprisoning) for personal use is wrong. However, in the case of selling large amounts of hard drugs, etc. those individuals should be punished.
I believe that the fact meth has become such a problem in places like montana is because there is nothing else to goddamn do in the fucking backwoods asshole of america. if we had some sort of other distraction from the monotony of small town life, even something small like a teen center that has pool, foosball, other sports, etc would make a difference. As a long time potsmoker from a small town, i can honestly say my habit would not have exploded had there been something else to do other than driving around smoking blunts.
lol lol lol
Well, this has been an extremely entertaining bunch of comments I have been reading and to all you people who say meth is awful and does many bad things to people, … you are right HoWEVER, people have different chemical make ups and respond differently to the drug. I must say i agree with alot of the people against the drug, because I know a lot of Meth users and they’re mostly people I want nothing to do with. However , I am a daily meth user and I’m about as kind hearted as a person can be. I have a great job working at a drug rehab facility but my most important job is raising my precious 2.5 yr old little girl. She is my life and while I in no way want her to ever be exposed to it, I dont think I’d have the energy and ambition I have on the drug to be able to keep up my role as a medical student, mother, and full time employee. It has never made me want to steal. My morals are all still there and I completely agree wirh 22 MrBurrows, 26 brandon james straight, 33 Alisha,14 Concerned Citizen , and tOAD . But the main downfall in my opinion is what dwiddle December 22, 2009 at 7:24 am said:
The problem with Meth is you can never recover from it. It permanently damages your mind and body and will never heal. If you’re addicted to Meth, your better off just doing it for life.
But since it’s illegal, it screws up many peoples life’s only because they got caught by the law and now they have a record so they’ll just be in a deeper hole feeling helpless like they won’t ever be able to crawl out of it& move on & up in their lives. Those people on meth that pull their own organs out, think bugs are under their skin, pick, steal, murder, etc. obviously had something wrong with themself mentally to begin with. Its a rare person who’s able to function like normal as a meth user, but there are some. So… dont stereo type just cuz your chem bal couldnt handle it or your mind was too week to keep your morals and sanity in order.
synthetic/hard rugs are for (spiritually) lazy people who are bored with themselves and have not generated or maintained a positive self image.
lost their momentum…and stalled…….. we are all connected because we are all separate manifestations of the same thing.
as above, so below
I come from New Zealand and anyone who knows anything about meth coming in and sweeping away all the pot heads and booze hounds in a tsunami of extreme addition will know how New Zealand has become a much darker (spiritually) place.
being an addict is not stopped by one ultimate, final decision to live up to our highest ideal of self… a ‘turning of the page’ so to speak…..it (addiction) is battled with every day..every MOMENT with a continuous decision, based upon self awareness and inner knowledge of deeper truth…every moment, to not take more drugs.
i wish all you addicts out there the best of luck with all my heart, try and rise with sun everyday and fight back!
sorry about my spelling… I meant washed away in a tsunami of extreme addiction! the decision to not take more drugs is a decision that must continuously be made… you can do it.
These are used all over the place , not just Montana. They have the exact same billboards on the buses in Hawai’i.
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