Above the Ignorance of Above the Influence
November 5, 2009 
112 Comments
This is just a small collection of the print ads being used by Above the Influence. All but one are for cannabis. Sorry, I couldn’t resist adding the cocaine one. It was simply too funny.
Apparently, being a burrito taster is one of the few jobs available to cannabis tokers. I don’t mind the anti-cannabis clowns turning children and teens away from the substance, but this is just ridiculous. I’d be willing to bet this ad was drafted by a stoner. A graphic designer and not a burrito taster.
Nevermind that, we can also competently operate a television remote. Just so you know, my remote isn’t even programmed. I guess I’ll just have to go with the burrito tasting.
There’s one for all of us smokers. I bet Irv Rosenfeld will quit his job as a stockbroker and take them up on this. No one wants to be a full-time sucker, even non-smokers.
Don’t snort coke (I mean it, the shit is awful), you may turn to goo.
Smoke reefer and get lost. You’ll never find your way back to the reality you were running from.
The best solution for a smoker with a dog? Just get a backyard and then he can walk himself, leaving you to the wonders of sloth forever.
That’s why I smoke. To get laid.
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You can’t stereotype people based on their recreational drug use. Do all coffee drinkers try to email Uranus? Do all beer drinkers have big guts? I hope you see where I’m going with this.
Much like Subverter, I am holding down an upper-management level career, I own a house and a car, I have an excellent and stable relationship with my partner as well as my friends and family, and I smoke pot at least once a day and have for almost 10 years.
Don’t paint everyone with the same brush.
Yeah I can say this is so true Ron – The problem is all the decent hard working users are invisible, so all people see are the losers that use – sort of like gay people – people only see the extremes. I have a theory that this gateway drug crap is caused by the authorities lying about a great and harmless drug – when people do try it and find out how not evil it is it makes people say “I wonder what other drugs I have been lied to about- think I’ll try some”
Or you are just more predisposed to try other ones anyway. I would have tried other drugs if they’d been offered to me, weed was just the first and most available. I know plenty of people who never want to go anywhere else in the drug world anyway. The people who seek out other drugs would have one way or another.
i like sober.
i like grass.
opinions are like buttholes everyone has one so shut up about weather or not its a good thing or a bad thing. its just a thing. may not be everyones thing but neither is beer or college.
So, above the influence. If a dog talked to me while I was stoned…I’m just gonna have to say that’s some AWESOME pot right there, probably laced with acid but ya know whatever…
Also, potheads are not bad. I’m a pothead. Proud of it. No overdoses with weed, no talking dogs….just relax and chill. No long term effects. Hell smoking weed is LESS dangerous than smoking ciggarettes.
When LSD is burned it’s destroyed, so that talking dog is _pure fiction_ designed to prove a (albeit weak) point. Plus you’d be more likely to see your dog’s fur breathing and colorful patterns dancing on his face than hallucinate him talking anyway.
An old friend of mine (a Christian thru and thru) posted something boldly stereotypical about Bob Marley and potheads on his facebook. Several of his friends responded defending Bob Marley’s music, but nobody defended weed. I responded with “Where in the Bible does it say it’s good to judge others before you meet them?”. He deleted the whole post yesterday. THATs the difference we need to make!
I work full time in Marketing, do freelance journalism for a respectable publication, run my own DJ business, maintain a 2 year relationship with a fellow-pothead, produce music and dabble in freelance graphic design. I smoke a lot of weed and have no problems being self-motivated and earn more than a living. So if I am to be labeled a “pothead”, so be it. Damn proud…
Cheers.
Skeet.
“made a hat out of meat”
okay, smoking pot doesnt make you stupid.
yeah, you lose your short term memory loss temporarily but after it wears off your back to yourself
not to mention its less addictive than tobacco and alcohol which are LEGAL.
and also is the only one you cant overdose on
AND has the least health risk
dont live above the influence, BE the influence
LEGALIZE CANNABIS!
you stupid fucks who the hell would listen to this shit
lots of people who like clarity, sunshine!
One thing that nearly EVERYONE on the other side of this issue fails to comprehend is the simple fact that someone that uses marijuana is not necessarily a ‘stoner’ and more than you can label a beer drinker as a drunk.
Yes, some beer drinkers ARE drunks. Equally some pot smokers ARE stoners.
I have been smoking pot since the 7th grade. I am now 43, and consider myself a productive member of society. I also cant think of the last time I smoked a WHOLE joint in one sitting. I have no use for being that high. It would by far and wide exceed my personal level of enjoyment, just like i dont like to drink alcohol until I am sloppy drunk.
There IS a thing called moderation, and many of us pot smokers understand that.
So…. ummm funny because my first semester of college I had all Cs and two Ds and I just drank that semester…. I was introduced to canabis my next semester and my grades improved…. I smoke every now and then cause I am busy…and I dont have time smoke sometimes and I am till this day a straight A student. I am not addicted to weed. and I love weed soo much but not enough to put it first than my schooling and my education. Also I have taken psychology classes about marajuana. The only effects there really are is that you can get lung diseases from smoking. Psychologically, there really none. AND NO ONE HAS EVER DIED FROM WEED. Its is impossible to smoke enough to OD…….
Makes me want to smoke more lol
Weed could solve so many problems if legal…
“…there aren’t many jobs out there for potheads.” Funny, I have two.
On the other hand, if most jobs didn’t drug test, there would be many more jobs for potheads. College kids take all the heat for this too. I’m making the healthier choice while my neighbor frat-bags are slamming cases a night. They skip most classes and go to work hung over, but make $20 an hour because they knew somebody. In the meantime I’m lucky with my $12/hr that doesn’t drug test, and I EARN that 12/hr and come to work sober every day. Wanna hear about injustice?
And I don’t think it ever occurs to anti-weed freaks that the “evil stoners” they refer to (the very few that exist) wouldn’t get jobs ANYWAY. Drug testing laws are only punishing people who would be good employees.
Let’s kill all the squares! Aaarghhhhh!
Kimberly Bock,
Don’t use the fact that you have a mental disorder to make it okay that you smoke crack and many other substances.You also refer to people that smoke pot are “pot heads” which says a lot about your stand on drugs, you also have another mental disorder, you are addicted and you have an addicted personality. I am basing all of this on “fact”.Also you are an idiot, you don’t know as much as you think you know. If you were smart, you would get psychiatrical help so you can cope with your disorders, and you don’t need prescription drugs to cure any of your problems. you need to stop bitching and except the fact that no one is ‘Perfect” or “normal”.
The fact that T.H.C. the active ingridiënt in marijuana CURES cancer and a few hundred other deseases is not well known. In fact the big pharma and governments keep this a secret even in the Netherlands. Infact , they will lose billions in income if people start to massively use this treatment and cure themselves. There are numerous people who cured themselves this way. Look up at youtube ‘run from the cure’ for testomonials. Don’t smoke it though this will burn the T.H.C., it will get you stoned but it will not CURE you! Make a hempoil , or use a good Vaporizer , this will not burn the thc and allow the thc to do it’s magic
Spread the word! Peace
pot forever!
I can’t believe that the government doesn’t see the good parts of legalizing pot. I mean, once it’s legal everyone who used to buy it illegally is now going to buy it legally because, hey, who wants to go to the ghetto to get something you can get much more easily in a corner store? Not to mention the fact that the government could tax the SHIT out of that stuff and make assloads of money.
Not to mention the fact that you never hear of pot being the reason for people going all nuts and killing people. Not like alcohol anyway.
It’s not that they don’t see the good parts. Its just that there are more good parts to them in keeping it illegal. It allows for massive budgets for both law enforcement and the military, and gives them an easy “hard on crime/hard on drugs” stance to earn them some free votes.
Politicians seem to be unable to look past the next election.
There are plenty of jobs for pot heads.
I’m sitting in my dorm at Umass Amherst. I’m majoring in Japanese language, and I smoke pot regularly. And of my friends who smoke weed every day? One is a Spanish major, the other is Psychology.
Yes, kids, you’ll never go anywhere in life if you smoke pot. You’ll just….sit on the couch all day.
Personally, I like to be outside enjoying life when I’m stoned.
are they saying if i smoke that i will hear my hair grow?
cuz ill tell ya every time i smoke i WISH i could hear it growin.
fuck stereotypes. that is exactly what is keeping this shit from saving the planet. its like fear…and loathing…of cannabis and how awesome it really is for your health all around
If you sit on your ass all day eating burritos you are a loser. You may be a loser that smokes weed, but you aren’t a loser because you smoke weed. But just for the hell of it let us use some simple logic to see whether or not the basis of this campaign is true.
-According to this anti-marijuana campaign all people that smoke weed are losers who accomplish nothing with their lives.
-Barack Obama has admitted to using marijuana several times in the past (google it if you don’t believe me or don’t remember him saying it, there are even videos).
-Barack Obama is now the president of the United States of America.
-According to Above the Influence Barack Obama is a loser that has accomplished nothing with his life.
I would have to say that this conclusively proves that not everyone who uses pot is a loser.
I think Mr. Willie Nelson said it best, “I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?”
I don’t really know why I went through all this bother. I shan’t convince anyone that can’t see that outlawing marijuana is wrong morally because of the implications of a) A group of people deciding a wild plant needs to become extinct (what if daises got you high if you smoked them?) and b) A group of people telling me what I can and cannot put into my body (what if sugar was outlawed because some people got diabetes from eating too much?). Not only that I bet no one even really reads this post anyway, stuck on the bottom and long as it is.
You guys are geniuses, I swear. Haha! It all makes sense. And if i could eat burritos for a living and travel around in a jet-pack, that’d be awesome.
Oh, you know who ever made these pictures were ripped out of their minds. ..
I mean, come on. “Burrito Taster”? Pretty much speaks for itself…
Haha one time when I was high I ate a raw egg in front of my friends who all started shouting, “it’s semen!” and shit like that. I stopped, disgusted by the idea that it might be true. They barely filmed it cuz they were all high and laughing too hard. Then, of course, we laid on the couch and deflated, and told the dog to walk itself.
did you know moderate cocaine use isn’t as bad for you as moderate alcohol use? We think tons of people die from cocaine use because the media obviously isn’t gonna report on “healthy cocaine users.” Instead they blow up cocaine deaths every chance they get. Also, “meth-mouth” is due to lack of dental care, not adverse effects of meth on the gums, and is uncommon.
“There aren’t very many jobs out there for potheads”
You want me to name one? How about Graphic Artist, for that matter Web Designer. Two jobs that will outlast “truth.org” any day.
Truth says I can’t get a job ’cause I’m a pothead?! That’s cool, I’ll just start my own business and make it big.. Oh wait, that already happened, annd weed was the key to my ambitions as it made me see life through an alternate perspective. Put that in your piece and smoke it, Truth.
I love it. Absolutely. Thanks for posting these.
Even more terrifying than any of these career ads – pot may even make you pursue a philosophy degree. And you thought it was hard to find a job as a burrito taster!
This does nothing but create stereotypes. I know I am not a lazy stoner. I don’t like government money being spent to portray stereotypes. Why don’t we just make some posters about lazy Mexicans, greedy Jews, or flamboyant homosexuals? Without a doubt everyone sees this as morally wrong, which just shows how desperate and flawed their tactics are.
This reminds me of an Onion News video called “It’s Gay to Smoke”
Ok, i bet somebody is more likely to make a hat out of meat after getting drunk than smoking a blunt. I’m more responsible after smoking than i am after getting drunk, i can say that much.
I’m a lazy stoner…I have run over people after leaving Wendy’s drive thru. I forgot to pick up my little brother from school…cause I was high. My dog talks to me. I can’t remember where I put my car keys. And making a hat out of meat isn’t a bad idea, as long as it was cooked. Think about it, clothes that you can cook and eat. I think I’m onto something…..
I’ve got a hat made out of ground beef… but that’s because it’s a Meatwad hat.
Ahahahahahahahaha
It’s funny how they say there “aren’t many jobs out there for pot smokers”. The majority of the people I know smoke pot, and they’re all doing quite well as far as jobs, relationships, and life is concerned. Hey… wanna know something absolutely INSANE?! I smoke weed all the time and I get A’s in all my classes in college! Oh, and get this… when I get high, I actually like… go out and DO things. I rarely watch TV, and while I do get mad munchies (no, really… I’m the munchie queen), it’s not like all I do all day is smoke pot and sit on my couch eating burritos. Grrr. >.<
Wow, everyone that posted seems to think the same thing.
On a website called the 420 Tribune? WEIRD!
You are all preaching to the choir. Take a step outside your successful lives where you still manage to smoke weed, or try and understand why these ads are being run.
They are not directed at Ron, the happily married successful businessman that’s smoked pot for over 10 years. Or at the student who goes to UMass and regularly smokes pot.
Congratulations, you’re exceptions.
These ads are for children, to deter them from even trying pot in the first place. And while you can say that your life has been bettered by weed, there are still thousands of people that can say the opposite.
Ok, so Barack Obama tried smoking pot several times. Who gives a shit? It’s not about that, at all. It’s about the people who begin smoking and immerse their lives into it, lose determination for a successful future, and yeah, end up on the couch eating burritos. If you’re all the stoners you say you are, you can’t tell me you don’t know one of those.
So everyone has to read these ads. Yeah, that’s because you don’t know how you are going to react to pot in the long run (successful businessman or couch potato) until you’re already there. So its essentially taking a risk, one that will likely help some people and hurt a lot more people.
Seriously, if you are so happy about your weed habits, you shouldn’t feel the need to get defensive or even offended at these posters–come on, they’re not about you.
Dear Obviously,
Really? Thousands of others? Where did you read about these thousand of other people being ‘ruined’ by marijuana? Statistics? Articles? Studies? Where? I’d like to read them.
Also, for every -thousand- people you can find that can say otherwise against pot, I’m sure you can also found a thousand more FOR pot.
Weed doesn’t hurt people, idiots do.
Legalize it.
Okay,I hang with ALOT of pot heads and everybody thinks that I am one…..My “boyfriend” has smoked pot for several years,and is bipolar.He refuses to take his meds and says that pot will make it better,and to be honest…he’s a total dick!
However,one of my best friends is ALWAYS high and he is a great person. He doesn’t pressure anyone to do anything,and honestly he’s a better driver when he’s high.And goes out of his way to make the people around him happy.Which isn’t very hard to do when most of them are also high.
I have smoked pot,and see no need in it.It isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be and ypu have to be smart to stay out of trouble,however,I do that these pics seriouslly over exacrate the effects of pot.Btw dude I suck at spelling. Haha Anyways,pot isn’t that bad but there is no need to get oober defensive about it on some random websight. And if I seen a talking dog while I was high,or sober, I sure as hell wouldn’t be talking to it!!!(:
To Obviously,
You say these posters are directed towards people that would be ruined by weed, but the people that are stoners that sit around doing nothing but eating burritos when they’re high would be doing that weather they were high or not. Marijuana is not a cause of anyone’s success or failure. All these people on here are saying they are successful despite using marijuana, not because of it (maybe with an exception or two). No one is a failure because of using marijuana. They’re a failure because they sit around on their ass and are content to do that. They use marijuana to escape their shitty lives, they don’t have shitty lives because of marijuana.
They’ve been doing the same thing to kids for generations. Trying to trick them into abstinence of (fill in the blank) because they don’t have any facts about it. Now I’m not saying kids should do drugs, but if we learn anything from previous generations shouldn’t we realize that trying to use propaganda on children only works until no one is watching them. Then they’re flat out misinformed and going to get curious and want to know themselves anyways. Which seems to me much more dangerous then telling them unbiased facts to begin with. Besides, when you tell a teenager not to do something, that’s usually the first thing they do when they get the chance. We should be teaching children self control, not lying to them every chance we get.
So i used to be a pothead but i have learned to change my ways because of this whole above the influence cartoons. My dog began to talk to me once and i knew it was time for an intervention. Anyways i tried football and realized that the ladies really do dig it. I quit you can too!:):):) <3
step(1) Toss some primo seeds in some unkempt areas on a cops or city officials lawn.
step(2) check on it regularly, and once it is visible take your girlfriend out with the HD video camera and randomly vid lawns under the premise of cataloging landscaping ideas. When to your surprise you notice a pot plant in the unkempt area of a home! Tell your girlfriend as you hit record that, “we should record this and take it to the authorities.” Crimestoppers will pay good for this. Its an open and shut case.
step (3) Be very excited to be privy to a real live drug bust and be determined to capture the whole arrest and seizure on video so you can try and interest the local news with some eye witness feed. (make copies)
step (4) If it gets swept under the rug, offer your NOW very valuable story to a larger news network. always maintaining your innocent by standing involvement with EVERYONE.
step (5) Pat yourself on the back. You are an Unsung hero in the War on freedom and American civilians.
I want the couch security job man
haha, this is ridiculous. you will see how far you get in life with your guys’ type of thinking. drugs are bad plain and simple. and one day you will see what you guys are doing to your life. and dont say i dont know what i am talking about because i do. ask me where my brother is? i dont know out in the streets somewhere because he chose drugs and lust over work and a good life. you guys are the greatest ignorance population in the world. maybe there is a reason for that. why dont you grow some damn knowledge and see what the rest of the world is trying to tell you, oh yeah you cant because you fried all your brain cells.
Imagine that, an idiot claiming pot smokers are somehow “ignorant” when he or she is ignorant of the proper usage of grammar. ROFLMAO
Raelynn,
You are a fucking idiot. Marijuana doesn’t fry brain cells. Probably, if you had paid attention is school, learned to use proper grammar, and understood the importance of assimilating information from many sources, you wouldn’t make such a bold, false statement as that.
I’m sorry to hear about your brother, but I would bet that marijuana wasn’t the only drug he was doing.
Finally, “Obviously” does make the good point that these ads are not directed at the successful pot-smokers. Their general purpose is positive and important.
But 420 tribune is right, marijuana is not bad.
Learn the facts. Don’t just watch 30 second commercials by Above the Influence. Read a book.