That drug driving ad on the telly
Discussion
You see, they clearly get people who are incredibly out of touch with the youth.
I'm 16, thence ripe for all the drugs, yet not the driving. Does this advert make me think, 'Wait a minute, what if the police catch me?'
No.
If anything, it pisses me off and makes me want to do the opposite of what the police tell me.
To a teen, the big eyes make it seem like a cartoon. This then makes it seem like they only think they can speak to teens using methods that speak more to children. Which then pisses me off. You can say 'oh but we saw it like this' but in all honesty, if the target audience resent it, you've wasted all the time making the ad.
thats my view on it...
I'm 16, thence ripe for all the drugs, yet not the driving. Does this advert make me think, 'Wait a minute, what if the police catch me?'
No.
If anything, it pisses me off and makes me want to do the opposite of what the police tell me.
To a teen, the big eyes make it seem like a cartoon. This then makes it seem like they only think they can speak to teens using methods that speak more to children. Which then pisses me off. You can say 'oh but we saw it like this' but in all honesty, if the target audience resent it, you've wasted all the time making the ad.
thats my view on it...
It's overblown, as always;
"A study performed for the UK Department of the Environment, Transportation and the Regions by the Transport Research Laboratory, "The Influence of Cannabis on Driving," is available for download in PDF format from this URL: http://www.trl.co.uk/detr/abstracts/477.htm
Or a web version is available at http://www.detr.gov.uk/roads/roadsafety/research16...
The study concludes that though cannabis does have an effect on driving ability, that alcohol is much worse, and that marijuana users notice their impairment and compensate by driving slower and more carefully."
Source; http://www.fcda.org/driving.htm
Also, found this on the BBC;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1068625.stm
Key paragraph in that;
"The most obvious effect of the cannabis was that the volunteers drove more slowly, trying to compensate for intoxication by being more cautious.
The volunteers also found it difficult to follow a figure-of-eight loop of road when given a high dose of cannabis.
However, reaction times to motorway hazards were not significantly affected."
So, going by that BBC article, smoking actually reduces speeding....so a case could be put that driving whilst high will reduce road accidents. In fact, I'd go further and say that it is 'Safer' than Speed Cameras
P.s.: plenty more info out there on the 'ACTUAL' effects of cannabis, if you do a 10 second google search.
"A study performed for the UK Department of the Environment, Transportation and the Regions by the Transport Research Laboratory, "The Influence of Cannabis on Driving," is available for download in PDF format from this URL: http://www.trl.co.uk/detr/abstracts/477.htm
Or a web version is available at http://www.detr.gov.uk/roads/roadsafety/research16...
The study concludes that though cannabis does have an effect on driving ability, that alcohol is much worse, and that marijuana users notice their impairment and compensate by driving slower and more carefully."
Source; http://www.fcda.org/driving.htm
Also, found this on the BBC;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1068625.stm
Key paragraph in that;
"The most obvious effect of the cannabis was that the volunteers drove more slowly, trying to compensate for intoxication by being more cautious.
The volunteers also found it difficult to follow a figure-of-eight loop of road when given a high dose of cannabis.
However, reaction times to motorway hazards were not significantly affected."
So, going by that BBC article, smoking actually reduces speeding....so a case could be put that driving whilst high will reduce road accidents. In fact, I'd go further and say that it is 'Safer' than Speed Cameras

P.s.: plenty more info out there on the 'ACTUAL' effects of cannabis, if you do a 10 second google search.
Edited by Spiritual_Beggar on Tuesday 1st September 13:58
Edited by Spiritual_Beggar on Tuesday 1st September 13:59
Funny..... a drug driver was in a collision with a drink driver a few months back however it was the drink driver who was punished despite the drug driver jumping a red light in an attempt to race his Rover 25 against a Punto and changing his story several times.....
Ended up with
Drink Driver - 6years in prison for death by dangerous driving
Drug Driver - no punishment
Funny old world eh? Apparently the judge was very anti-drink driving
Ended up with
Drink Driver - 6years in prison for death by dangerous driving
Drug Driver - no punishment
Funny old world eh? Apparently the judge was very anti-drink driving
Monki said:
Funny..... a drug driver was in a collision with a drink driver a few months back however it was the drink driver who was punished despite the drug driver jumping a red light in an attempt to race his Rover 25 against a Punto and changing his story several times.....
Ended up with
Drink Driver - 6years in prison for death by dangerous driving
Drug Driver - no punishment
Funny old world eh? Apparently the judge was very anti-drink driving
AND!!! one less Rover on the road! Ended up with
Drink Driver - 6years in prison for death by dangerous driving
Drug Driver - no punishment
Funny old world eh? Apparently the judge was very anti-drink driving
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