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.
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