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October 23, 2006 at 6:36 pm

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Raj

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LONDON (Reuters) – A drugs helpline has devised a shock TV advert featuring a futuristic shop where addled brains can be swapped, to show youngsters the dangers of long-term cannabis use.

The Brain Warehouse ad from drugs help group Frank will be shown from Monday.

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They can even purchase “parts” such as cerebral fluid and memory stalks to cater for specific symptoms suffered by cannabis users such as mood swings, paranoia, vomiting and a lack of motivation.

A spokesman for Frank, set up three years ago by the government, said: “The situation is not overly Sci-Fi, but actually set in a context that everyone will relate to, much like a high street mobile phone or electronics shop.”
An empty shop in Shepherd’s Bush, London, was converted into the Brain Store, complete with fitting room and surgical instruments.

But mental health charity Rethink said the advert did not outline all the risks and failed to go far enough.

Paul Corry, director of public affairs for Rethink, told the BBC: “Rethink believes these adverts fall far short of the commitment given by the then Home Secretary Charles Clarke for a “massive” health education campaign highlighting mental health risks.”

Indications are that the use of cannabis is on the rise, particularly of a new, stronger variety called skunk.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-10-23T133528Z_01_L23739678_RTRUKOC_0_UK-BRITAIN-CANNABIS.xml&WTmodLoc=HP-C2-Business-2
October 24, 2006 at 2:01 pm

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havent seen it yet..i imagine it’ll be on youtube before the week’s out…

cant imagine it’s much of a shock, tho, cannabis has been linked to mental health issues for ages. i think we all know what the dangers are. same as people know that alchohol is bad but still drink. i think its ridiculous that the government thinks it can dictate to us what we should or shouldnt take, and assuming we dont liek doing things that are bad for us is simply ludicrous.
October 24, 2006 at 2:46 pm

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i usto to smoke weed alot but now i am cutting down on it because i’ve been noticing that im really burnt now, so yeah it does affect your brain more than u think:lol_crash
October 24, 2006 at 8:35 pm

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globalloon

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it makes me wonder why there aren’t adverts showing heart bypass operations for people who eat junk food

or kids with astma getting ‘environment transplants’ to places where there is less traffic / industry

it’s a bollocks concept, basically
October 25, 2006 at 11:12 am

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Shit Robot

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I think the campaign is crap,Its not like there aint better things they could be spending the money on.Also the advert fails to touch on one of the most serious issues (IMO) of hash smoking in particular and thats all the t shirts and tops which can be ruined by Ruperts,Not such a problem for your habitual weed smoker though.
October 25, 2006 at 11:37 am

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General Lighting

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TBH I think “Frank” is suffering from a split personality himself – one moment they are trying to be “down with da yoof innit” David Cameron-stylee..

then the next they are still trotting out the old anti-drugs scare tactic..

hardly surprising as this campaign is part funded by Dept of Health (whose emphasis seems to be on harm reduction) and Home Office (whose emphasis is demand reduction/anti drugs enforcement)

And as its a Civil Service initiative funded by the British (and European) taxpayer and answerable in part to the United Nations they can’t be seen to be condoning drug use…

TBH I think they would be better of putting more of our money towards real research with proper scientists, not daft ad campaigns which solve nothing…
October 25, 2006 at 12:25 pm

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Sound-Guy

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Definatly gone too far, cannabis is widely used accross the world day in day out so showin some fruit bat running a brain shop is hardly gonna turn many heads! Just makes the government look desperate! Less smokers = less dealers = Less weed! But it just aint that easy
October 25, 2006 at 12:31 pm

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Shit Robot

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Saw somthing on TV the other day where they were saying that money spent on tackling Drug issues is about £450 million whereas Alchohol issues attract just £15 million,a doctor said that alcohol took up something like 450 times more hospital resources than drugs with there being only a couple of drug related deaths for every few hundred booze related deaths, and a government official explined the huge difference in funding was due to drug crime costing the tax payer more than Alcohol related crime.Seems crazy to me.
October 25, 2006 at 12:41 pm

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General Lighting

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The reason drug related crime may “cost” more is simply because

1) the price of drugs is artificially pushed up by the substances illegality
2) prohibition encourages the production of stronger or more compact substances such as crack
3) prohibition and intolerance makes users angry and paranoid and the more alienated ones also feel doing crime is “fighting their corner against society”

and if our govt has the balls to put two fingers up to the UN and engage in pointless military action in Iraq I don’t see why they (or better still the whole EU) can’t overrule the flawed UN anti-narcotics legislation.
October 25, 2006 at 3:22 pm

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miss bassets

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i agree with everything thats been said

yet more propaganda from the uk gov ……. quite worrying that as a country we continue to lap it up
October 25, 2006 at 3:48 pm

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General Lighting

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miss bassets wrote:

i agree with everything thats been said

yet more propaganda from the uk gov ……. quite worrying that as a country we continue to lap it up

OTOH if users could self-regulate themselves there wouldn’t be any need or justification for this laughable scare-campaign….

There’s loads of old-skool ravers and even people in their 20s regretting their level of cannabis use; some of them have suffered mental health problems that have also affected those close to them (such as kicking off after mood swings) and required NHS treatment….

Even then TBH I can’t help but think that no one in power or non-drug using society gave a flying fuck until the gangs from other countries started taking over (but then again if people are too lazy to grow their own thats exactly what will happen)
October 29, 2006 at 10:21 pm

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ogga

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this angers me much

i dont like how much they demonise drugs. people die from drugs, people die from cars people die from sex, war, nuts, guns, exploding man-hole covers, golf, drink-the list go’s on.

just think how much booze skrews people up. how many people are (in many evil ways) abused,killed or become addicted as a result of drinking. and its everywhere. people the world over. how many people do this high?

um let me think.

i mean i happens but compared to drink.

so tell me folks. why do the government choose booze over weed?

tax i effing bet.

dont get me wrong i think weed should be respected but booze is legal and it fucks so much up.

og
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October 30, 2006 at 8:08 pm

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Tank Girl

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:hopeless: It is a bit of a shame that they have resorted to ‘scare’ tactics,
but I guess in one way they (Frankie boy) prob feel the add has worked to some extent as it has got people talking (here, the press, my friends etc)

People will always make their own choices IMHO education and harm reduction is the best way forwards,

As to Alcohol – IMHO it is a drug the same as any narcotic and just because it is legal means shit, I’ve seen devestating effects from it 1st hand. However due to its legality and wide social acceptance there seems to be such a hierachy even between alcoholics, when compairing themselves to drug users :you_crazy Sad, I guess it helps with denial, I.E: at least I’m not breaking the law …. etc
October 31, 2006 at 3:25 pm

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GRV2006

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It really brings me down the Goverments veiw on weed.

I got a good job, I pay my taxes, mortgage and eveything bloody else, dont really like a drink but yet i cant go and get some weed to chill out who am i harming!!

Yet you got some idiots who go out get smashed off there skulls, get arrested, smash up places, spew in the streets, drink drive, you know what im getting at!!! and they got the nerve to do an advert saying how dangerous skunk is, when I havent seen F All on TV about how dangerous heroin, crack, coke bla bla! i think they got too much money to spend.

i think half of these MP’s wanna sit down and have spliff and see what the fuss is about!!!
November 3, 2006 at 12:33 pm

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e_babes

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Weed and hash made me parranoid for a few years, however I cannot contribute that this was the single factor. I was using other substances like speed and pills and I would say that hash/weed didnt drive me into psychosis, it was the chemicals.

On the otherhand, a friend of mine in Kintbury hanged himself because of psychosis which was brough on by hash/weed.

Hard to say really, Im well undecided
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