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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Okay Josh who posted on the tenth your a dumb ass meth is made from shit you would never put in your body (if you had a brain) and you want that to be legal?!?! Crack, meth, coke, pcp, X all of these drugs are man made! I do think marijuana should be legalized, it’s just a plant, it’s natural, it wont rot your face like meth. Have you ever seen an addict? Because I think if you had, you wouldn’t be saying this shit should be legal. Some people are born in to drugs. I know someone who was started at five. Thats awful and your disgusting for even thinking that that shits okay! When people are on these kinds of drugs they aren’t themselves, they don’t give a fuck about anyone else, they just want their next fix. God your an idiot. All of you dumb asses that think its funny, its not. It’s sad. It’s awful and ignorant people like you have probably never even come in contact with a druggie.
Just wanted to make sure you knew what was in meth.
Alcohol -
Gasoline additives/Rubbing Alcohol
Ether (starting fluid)
Benzene
Paint thinner
Freon
Acetone
Chloroform
Camp stove fuel
Anhydrous ammonia
White gasoline
Pheynl-2-Propane
Phenylacetone
Phenylpropanolamine
Rock, table or Epsom salt Red Phosphorous
Toluene (found in brake cleaner)
Red Devil Lye
Drain cleaner
Muraitic acid
Battery acid
Lithium from batteries
Sodium metal
Ephedrine
Cold tablets
Diet aids
Iodine
Bronchodialators
Energy boosters
Iodine crystals
IM SO HIGH, I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO MY OWN NAME WAS!
(but not on meth, lol!)
… It’s all I can say :O But what about the weed problem?? My whole high school practically does weed. Well Weed doesn’t do that shit to you but still
For the love of reason, it’s been shown clearly that these scare tactics do just one thing; they make it ok for “normal” people, mum and dad, or average white girl #2 to feel ok about calling the cops when they see someone who has fallen from grace. If Meth were legal, each of these cases would be different. I’m not saying they should sell it in Starbucks (i’m sure they would if they could), but if people didn’t have to deal with a massive, lucrative, violent, criminal element to get this stuff, they would talk to a pharmacist every day. We could have a system that catches this dangerous, self destructive behaviour early.
But PEOPLE DON’T CARE, it’s easier if drug addicts are just criminals. Put them in jail, fine them, keep them away from our kids.
The initial trigger is curiosity, thats why people try drugs. It’s simple. Everything after that is how they react to altered reality.
Methamphetamie is a powerful chemical. Please be careful and read about what it does to your brain. It can be an interesting tool, but is more dangerous than any other drug i have ever encountered.
And please help anyone you know by giving them as much information about it as possible. Advertising won’t help drug addicts any more than it will teach children to read.
Good Luck everyone.
“… It’s all I can say :O But what about the weed problem?? My whole high school practically does weed. Well Weed doesn’t do that shit to you but still”
weeds not a problem. no matter how many anti marijuana adds people put out anyone whos smart enough not to believe everything they see will know its not that bad. and half of America smokes weed. its not messing up their life and if they want to smoke it, it shouldnt be a big deal. its better for you then alot of legal crap people do these days
Uh, methamphetamines are destructive chemicals. So are amphetamines(ritalin, adderol etc). These things should be illegal. Marijuana, on the other hand, just gets you high. There is no desire to screw people over or tear your own skin off as stated by multiple meth addicts. And dont try to say marijuana is a gateway drug, this effect is created by realizing that pot isnt as super harmful as everyone says it is(it still affects your respiratory system to some degree, but less than cigs). Once people realize this they tend to branch off and try scripts/psychadelics/stimulants… it isnt CAUSED by the pot … it is caused by the LEGAL STATUS of the pot and those other substances.
Marijuana is one of the highest scheduled drugs in america, Right up there with meth cocaine and ecstacy. Yet it has none, count them none, of the ill effects that others in its schedule have.
End prohibition, start selling an ounce of gov’t grass(yes the US grows tons of it) for 200$ in tobacco or alcohol stores or even gas stations and grocery store, this is the answer to our countries money woes… and eases a great deal of stress for our legal system.
people should do better drugs xD
Statistics suggest that this campaign has had drastic positive results. Unlike the “Reefer Madness” propaganda against marijuana, this campaign does have some truth to it which may account for it’s reported degree of success. From personal experience I have watched several acquaintances and more than one relative turn into the tragedies depicted in the campaign. I’ve seen addicts pick at sores, suffer catastrophic medical problems, lose homes, lose kids, steal from their families and jobs, become extremely paranoid, and exhibit horrifically violent behavior. In our community at least five children under the age of two have been beaten to death by parents under the influence of meth.
We are America’s least populated state and not a day goes by that meth doesn’t account for some crime in the news. However, I know more people who have used meth “recreationally” and quit than I know who became hopelessly addicted. I also am aware of several who were “hopelessly” addicted and eventually quit and have gone on to achieve various levels of personal success. If I know this then you can be sure any kid over the age of 12 is aware of it too. Any anti-drug campaign that tries to say “try it once and you will die” is doomed to failure. Kids can spot a lie when they see it.
I also know more people who abuse alcohol to a suicidal degree than I know people who abuse any illegal drug. Although meth related crime makes the news daily, reported incidents involving alcohol (DUI, family violence, fatal accidents, property destruction, bar fights, robbery, murder, etc…) are far more frequent than all other drugs combined. No, a billboard has never cured a single addict but if these ads can make a kid think twice about trying meth even once then it’s worth it. I wonder why a similar campaign for alcohol and tobacco isn’t being used as well. I would be hard pressed to be able to tell a meth addict from a lung cancer patient or a life-long alcoholic apart in a lineup. In the end they all look like emaciated, waxy skinned, hollow-eyed, human shells.
oh shut the hell up Kayla oh no everyone at my school smokes weed oh its such a big problem shut up everyone does it so get over it weed isnt anything like meth so why the fuk are you bringing it up here why dont you go whine to someone who cares like another loser like you
This is absolutely ridiculous… As a recovering junkie I can say that people respond to truth. The war on drugs is failing miserably because the government is full of propagated bulls***.
And PS: I wonder how many virgins do meth in disgusting public bathrooms???
what is meth? i know a lot of drugs and no one makes me like that
i think meth its another stupid thing made by stupid people (americans).
EUROPE ROCKS
“What about the weed problem?” – Kayla
Weed does not alter your mind in such a way that you would hurt other people, the way that meth can, and does. I’ve never seen nor heard of a pothead jumping some old man to jack his money just for one more bowl of weed. If there is violent behavior, that person or persons, are already violent with or with out pot. I would also like to point out that some one who is violent or has a temper, weed usually helps decrease those feelings and or rage.
I’m just letting you know so you stop making ignorant comments about things you clearly don’t know about and have not taken the time to research.
-Mary Jane
they should make one that says
‘DON’T DO METH. FUCK DRUGS. JUST SMOKE POT AND BE A GOOD PERSON’.
Telling everybody else what to do isn’t normal
but with religion it is.
Scaring people into believing you isn’t normal
but with religion it is
bleak visions of the future are not normal
but with religion they are
We should just kill all the people on drugs and tobacco and save ALOT of tax dollars.
I didn’t realize that ending up at an abandoned barn at 4:30 am dancing to a techno remix of Michael Jackson with three midgets, two clowns, and a man dressed Catwoman was normal. But on meth it is.
ive smoked meth a fue times in my life
and im not a hectic junkie pulling of my skin and selling myself
its really not worth all the beat up
those are some really exadurated worst case scenarios
its just fucked if you use it habitually or have an unstable personality in the first place……
Bleh, meth’s pretty damn bad and I’ve read the comments on this page, I don’t thin weed should be legal either, it doesn’t do that bad to you, but I’m a antismoker type person, so I don’t like cigarettes or cigars either. To smoke a plant, sound pretty retarded to me.
haha…i actually lol’ed at those…not because i’m a heartless asshole…but you think those will make kids not try it? yah right…I can do that to my face in photoshop anyday…L O L…It’s sad but true…kids who try it arent interested in things like ..’art’ i guess you could call it..they are fucked.
none of these adds are pointing to the legality of meth. Comparing meth to pot is ridiculous. Two totally different drugs,two totally different side effects. On the other side of things Nobody really has the right to tell you what you can and can not do. the only exception is the parent. I understand if your kid is doing hard drugs you need to kick their ass. Other than that, if you want to kill yourself in a drug induced euphoria, then by all means please do. it is not the the responsibility of the “smart” people to take care of the “stupid ” people. Im really tired of the majority thinking they know whats best for the minority. So in trying to care for the stupid we all pay with OUR liberty’s. there is huge infringement on personnel rights going on on this country and nobody seems to care.
you cant go and say that oh i never lost anybody or i dont know what its like, you have no clue what i know, what I’ve done or have lost. it has nothing to do with emotional connections.
everybody needs to be responsible for them selves. You do something stupid, you deserve the consequences of your actions, whether it be jail, coma, or death. more than one religion claims to follow the “do what tho will,so long as it harm none” mantra. seems like pretty simple rule to follow.. why cant most of you mind your own business and if somebody is doing something you dont agree with, if its not hurting you. what the hell is your problem. Shut up! turn around and go or do something else. change the channel.
The human animal is not left to the survival of the fittest any more. some bleeding hearts think the pack should carry the weak and lifeless around. instead of eating them or leave them to the wolves.
to cass,
not that it would be hard to find the recipe, but do you really think you should post the the ingredient list. when you seem to be opposed to it. seems kind of counter-productive…
Weed doesn’t change people? Wrong, whoever thinks that is a smoker. Weed makes people just a step above useless. It might have medicinal purposes but then again so does (did) whiskey and wine. But try holding a decent conversation with someone who’s high. It’s like interviewing a muppet. Speed is 100% a soul destroyer no doubt. But please don’t try to justify weed even if it is natural.
Time to lick a frog.
Johnny says that talking to marijuana smokers is like talking to inanimate objects.
Johnny is either:
A) A Loser Drug-Addict (or ex-addict) of drugs OTHER than pot. But since he smoked pot too, he includes that in his blaming of who wrecked his life
B) A Preacher
or
C) A control freak neoconservative
If marijuana made people so lazy, how is it that within the course of 15 years, those “lazy” pot smokers got state-medical-legalization measures on ballots in 23 states, many of them passing. There are now over 1000 stores in California that sell marijuana over the counter.
There are books, rallies, concerts…. all organized by “lazy” pot smokers.
Johnny needs to look at who is REALLY the laziest people of all: The American Mainstream. The Morons who allowed BUSH to run this nation for 8 years, looking the other way during the torture, the money waste, the cronyism, the corruption.
Yes.. Sober American Mainstreamism… is a huge life destroyer.
Marijuana, by comparison, is relatively harmless.
…now advertising to kids who cant read would almost be as tragic and lame as these anti-drug slogans.
the award for the most ineffective weapon on the “war against drugs” goes to… the montana meth project~!!!
Harlowe Thrombey: Wait a minute…Harlowe Thrombey?
Aren’t you dead?
Unohu69 — you are also into cannibalism yes?
jk. So basically, your saying-
lets look the other way, just like we tried to do with HIV, that’ll save lives, f *em right?
to hell with all those uninformed, because all of us “smart” people have always made informed decisions, lets get rid of the FDA too, we dont need someone telling us if things are safe, I would really like to get food poisoning and die, survival of the fittest! , oh oh oh, lets use those old fashioned x-ray toys that wound up giving us cancer again too, and lets NOT research vaccinations against the flu, the weak will die, f-em, all the stuff civilizaton thought was fun and didnt know could kill us, lets just go back words, because, we do what we want. No one can tell US what to do..
Free your mind! close the blinds, run a way, let em starve.
ps- ..dumb. Grow up, it sounds like a teenager rebeling. Part of having free speech and half a brain is to take things with a grain of sand, everything that comes out from the media needs to be researched and taken objectivly. Charity, knowledge, personal connection, thats what makes us human. Also, those who are not informed make stupid mistakes., though these billboards are extreme and very cheesy, at least its now a point of discussion.
Joey DeVilla…. LOL!!!!
Yo yall alls be stupid. Meth aint no biggie. Just gets you cranked up so you can fuck niggas up and hooks up with skanks. Plus I make bank of that shit
you all need a chem lesson. methyl-amphetamine is not what propaganda says it is. methamphetamine hydrochloride(brand name desoxyn) is a legitimate medicine, it is used in the treatment of narcolepsy(which i have and i wouldn’t be awake right now if not for my desoxyn), ADHD, weight loss, and treatment resistant depression. your list of ingredients are misleading as most are only used once, then washed out in the final product so no trace remains. i understand that it can destroy lives, and i’m not saying its a wonder drug that we all should try, i’m just saying that bashing something without knowing the facts is ignorant and irresponsible. i hope this post inspires some of you to increase your knowledge instead of just flaming me.
Wow, so many uneducated people here. Like Cody said, meth in low doses has actual value for extreme cases of ADHD, and some forms of depression. Desoxyn is its name, and it’s really hard to get for obvious reasons. However, it’s not what’s made on the streets with all the dirty ingredients. I’ve done tons of uppers, liked them all, except for meth. My friend lied to me and said it was blow(so I snorted some) and it was the worst experience ever. GHB, Rohypnol, and many other drugs should be easier to get, but girls lied about having them slipped into their drinks(turns out over 70 percent had acute intoxication.) Always blame date rape drugs… GHB is still legal, but only for people with narcolepsy. It helps them sleep normal(have to take two doses at diff times.) I believe most drugs should be legalized… except heroin, crack(which has much diff effects from coke and diff side effects), and tobacco.
first off, meth is a disgusting drug. second off, dont give them the fucking ingrediants to meth. why dont you tell them how to cook it up too. last thing anyone needs is to know how to make it or what goes in it. PLAIN STRAIGHT…………..DONT TOUCH THE DRUG!!!!SMOKE POT LIKE MOST OF CIVILATION DOES. IM HIGH RIGHT NOW AND IM FINE AND DANDY!!!
15$ for sex??!?!?!?! Man I’ve been missing out!! Thanks for making me aware of this Montana!!
Here’s what I can tell you about these advertisements (they have them on tons of the billboards here in Billings, MT).
Since they started using these ads in 2005 Montana has dropped from #5 in meth usage to #35. Not bad in 4 years…
Amphetamines are fantastic. They help provide me with the energy I need to overcome the great physical strain that my highly specialized profession demands of me.
Dexedrine has been a neuroenhancing psychoactive I use for years now.
If one is too weak in the soul to curb their addiction (likely due to their drug use for entertainment purposes only), then that is nobody’s fault other than their own. Weakness of the will is no excuse for sloth.
That old man clearly has an erection in that photo. Dirty old bastard.
@cass-then those kids should be taken away, meth shouldnt be legal but you havent done the other man made ones so dont comment on them/@Michael Treadgold-youre right, look at the prohibition of alchohol all it did was force people to buy it from shady places/@kayla-epic fail/@troy-correct, actually there are 7 people the goverment actually has been sending weed for 21 years, i suggest everyone looks up ben and tellers episode http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3025396475247394113 /@ tukalak-you win, best post ever/@romono-i tell them apart by the giant holes in their skin, but apart from that alchohol is a retarded substance as are cigarettes, dip etc. the amount of deaths caused by these is termendous/@unoho69-definitely, stop paying for everyones 15 kids, stop paying for all the illegals free healthcare, stop paying for these horrible ads that dont work, the wave is coming people, we will see more drugs legalized soon, as soon as the baby boomers dye off and are out of office fresh minds will come in and things will be legalized.
how much is normal for sex
Please folks, for the love of god.
Could you sometime, (preferably in the near future), get your little heads out your arses and realize that OTHER PEOPLE ARE FUCKING FREE TO DO AS THEY PLEASE.
Theese ads are pathetic btw..
IN AFRICA THERE ARE LOTS OF SKINNY BABIES WITH FAT TUMMIES AND FLIES IN THEIR EYES
IN AFRICA EVERYONE HAS AIDS
IN AFRICA THERE’S A PROSTITUTE BORN EVERY 20 SECONDS
IN AFRICA EVERYONE SUFFERS AND DIES BEFORE THEY’RE THIRTY EXCEPT FOR FAT DICTATORS AND THEIR MILITARY ADVISORS
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OH GODS OF MEDIA FEED US WITH HORRIBLE PICTURES AND SLOGANS AND WE WILL BELIEVE THE STEREOTYPICAL IMAGES THAT YOU PRESENT, BLINDLY, WITHOUT QUESTIONING.
The most pathetic thing of all is loosers that buy into theese mockups…
@Arcturus:
“Amphetamines are fantastic. They help provide me with the energy I need to overcome the great physical strain that my highly specialized profession demands of me.”
Your physically straining ‘highly specialized profession’: Rent boy?
Meth is a horrible drug, I think we all know someone who has been effected by this. I have a brother who has wasted his life on this. The person who wrote that these adds are pathetic is only deluding his/herself I can tell you I have seen people like this, its just horrible.
In Philip K Dick’s “A scanner darkly” (Im referring to the book, haven’t seen the movie) there was a memorable quote that went something like “who could have known the price we’d pay for just having fun” (something like that)
My advice is stick to the green and stay away from that crap. cheers!
Its disheartening to see so many people grouping Meth in the same category at MDMA (ecstasy for those who don’t know). Methamphetamine is FAR more addicting physiologically than 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine and what it does to the brain is very different. Methamphetamine is akin to a stimulant, for those of you who haven’t tried it, think taking a handful of caffeine pills at once and washing it down with six or seven red bulls. Besides this energizing effect, Meth just makes you want more…you don’t even really know why you want more because it doesn’t necessarily make you feel good, you just want it, all the time, no matter the cost. Ecstasy on the other hand, while it does elevate heart rate and blood pressure, is actually a muscle relaxant. It also effects seratonin reuptake, think of it as an antidepressant that is ten times better than zoloft. It increases sensitivity to light, touch, sound and even taste and smell, and i’ve yet to meet someone who’s had a “bad trip” on MDMA. The only related deaths to ecstasy are due to dehydration, not because ecstasy dehydrates you, but because you tend to lose a sense of your own physicality, which makes dancing for five hours straight without water a stupid decision. The most dangerous thing about ecstasy is the same for most drugs, because it is scheduled and thus illegal, it is often mixed with other chemicals before pressed into a pill, instead of the pure crystalline MDMA. And perhaps the biggest difference between the two is that I have never, EVER, in my 8 years as a recreational drug user, met someone who was addicted to MDMA. I feel like a lot of people here haven’t done their homework, and those who have seemed to only have researched biased websites. Is legalized MDMA desirable? that is for everyone to decide for themselves, but research the truth first, read pro and anti websites and form your own conclusions based on the information given. Is MDMA as addicting and thus potentially harmful as Meth? The answer to that is unquestionably NO. So stop grouping them together.
…… Oh. My. God. I’m going to have nightmares until i’m 64. The one with the whole tearing off skin thing actually made me numb with fear of what the hell people are doing to themselves. Aw great now i’ll never eat MEAT again….
Right, is this the drug methadone or methalated spirits? Both are a serious problem, but this takes it too far and ends up making it a pastiche of itself and hence unreal and innefective.
Methadone I dont know what it is, but Methalated spirits are anything with Methanol in, not what Cass said. They may be examples, but it is anything with Methanol in.
Actually, check that, no, hardly any of those are ‘meth’. Battry acid? Lithium? F*****g Sodium? thats in salt! Sodium is not meth!
cass, you’re an idiot. with the singular exception of the anhydrous form of hydrchloric/muriatic acid, the only thing on your list of things that are in meth that could even sorta be considered to be ‘in meth’ is ephedrine/pseudoephedrine which have the chemical formula C10H15NO [sorry i can't find a subscript function for the numbers]. since meth’s one and only chemical formula is C10H15N it makes far more sense to say that meth is in ephedrine/pseudoephedrine, though that isn’t really true either. to say that iodine, phosphorus, sodium, or any of the other things you mention are ‘in’ meth just because they are used in it’s manufacture is equivalent to saying that your car contains a milling machine and a foundry and a steel mill because all of those things were req’d to build it. as stated above meth contains only three elements: carbon; hydrogen and nitrogen. there is no iodine nor phosphorus etc in meth. further, it bears mentioning that among the ‘hard’ drugs with which meth is usually grouped (cocaine, heroin, p.c.p.) it is the only one still mass produced by legitimate pharmaceutical companies and is still prescribed by licensed physicians in the u.s. that’s right, it is an a.m.a. approved medication. and in re. to the hydrochloric acid: the gaseous, anhydrous form of the acid is used to change the insoluble-in-water, oily, pure form of the drug into a water soluble solid. this process is called ‘hydrogenation’ and it is common in the manufacture of medicine and food. look at some drug labels, everywhere you see the ‘HCl’ on the end of a drug name that means that ’swimming-pool’ acid was used to turn the chemical from a liquid into a solid form. wow, tylenol just got street cred huh? in conclusion: please quit regurgitating the government’s scare-tactics-based propaganda. it doesn’t ring true with those of us who know better and makes you look like a mindless lackey of the prohibitionists. do i need to mention that i did dope for years and never beat my mother or turned out my g-friend nor did i lose any teeth? i am not alone. those of us who do not turn into monsters the instant we touch meth do not get counted and we don’t get the press but rest assured we are here, we are your neighbors, coworkers and maybe your friends. don’t let the ones who lack self respect or self control convince you that their plight is the foregone conclusion to the use of meth. it is the inevitable conclusion of a life unrestrained by conscience or a sense of dignity. the ones who tell you ‘meth made me do it’ are unwilling to admit that they made the choice to do what they did, and unwilling to bear the full responsibility for those choices.
Drugs that change the way you feel are dumb. Drugs that change what you see are awesome. Don’t shoot up, just drop a tab.
meth is around because we made drugs illegal. amsterdam doesnt have meth because they dont outlaw cocaine, heroine, weed, etc. prohibition causes crime, just like it did when alcohol was prohibited. meth is the modern day moonshine. people made moonshine when alcohol was outlawed and it was potent dangerous stuff. now people are turning to homemade drugs like meth that are highly unstable/dangerous. most of you people need to look at the entire spectrum, not this focused propaganda bullshit. for each one of these ads, i can find a similar or even identical story that happened while under the influence of alcohol. yet that remains legal. tobacco kills millions each year, and that is still legal? you have the right to do whatever you want to your body UNLESS it takes away the right of another person. wanna do meth? cool. wanna get loaded of shots of vodka? go ahead. same principle.
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