Cannabis in TWC superbowl commercial?

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     Stop stealing my name.       

You can NOT be serious.
 
eagl is the last guy you want to "duke it out" with!

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     Stop stealing my name.       

LOL! you haven't been around the combat flight sim community for long, have you?

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[AWwrgwy]

As for the pot in the commercial, it sure makes TWC come across as a company that endorses smoking pot to kids, since the commercial aired early in the game when kids would reasonably be expected to still be watching.  Hey look how cool our cable TV service is, we even have POT and it's COOL and totally OK!

So, lets say they had a The Soprano's clip in there too. Does that mean they endorse The Mob? Or organized crime? Or murder?

It's a TV show for crying out loud. 

Weeds



wrongway

[eagl]

So, lets say they had a The Soprano's clip in there too. Does that mean they endorse The Mob? Or organized crime? Or murder?

It's a TV show for crying out loud. 

Weeds



wrongway

I wasn't aware that mob participation was a problem with kids in school nowadays.  Seriously, that's an apples-oranges example.  I don't worry for a second that my kids will be exposed to the mob as early as elementary school, but I am positive that they will be pressured to smoke weed at the latest by the end of jr. high school.  I don't need the cable company telling my kids that it's ok.

[VonMessa]

I wasn't aware that mob participation was a problem with kids in school nowadays.  Seriously, that's an apples-oranges example.  I don't worry for a second that my kids will be exposed to the mob as early as elementary school, but I am positive that they will be pressured to smoke weed at the latest by the end of jr. high school.  I don't need the cable company telling my kids that it's ok.

Has the mob put a gun to your head to watch showtime?

My first line of defense is regulating what the kids watch.

Beer commercials are 20x more pushy about consuming their product.

[BERN1]

a lil pot never killed anyone,beer sure has....oh wait nevermind I just watched refer madness!! we must run for the hills before all the wacked out refer zombies eat our brains!!!!

[sunfan1121]

a lil pot never killed anyone,beer sure has....oh wait nevermind I just watched refer madness!! we must run for the hills before all the wacked out refer zombies eat our brains!!!!

Pots not illegal because it will hurt people, or destroy lives. It's illegal because the American lumber industry would've been crushed by hemp. The hemp plant produces no THC, CDB, or CDG. It can't get you high even if u smoke a pound of it, and yet it's illegal grow hemp in the US. Why do you think that is?

[kilo2]

Pots not illegal because it will hurt people, or destroy lives. It's illegal because the American lumber industry would've been crushed by hemp. The hemp plant produces no THC, CDB, or CDG. It can't get you high even if u smoke a pound of it, and yet it's illegal grow hemp in the US. Why do you think that is?

I have heard the excuse it will be too easy to mix cannabis plants into a hemp crop, to hide it.

I am all for legal pot.

[VonMessa]

I have heard the excuse it will be too easy to mix cannabis plants into a hemp crop, to hide it.

I am all for legal pot.

They are basically the same plant, different varieties.

[VonMessa]

Pots not illegal because it will hurt people, or destroy lives. It's illegal because the American lumber industry would've been crushed by hemp. The hemp plant produces no THC, CDB, or CDG. It can't get you high even if u smoke a pound of it, and yet it's illegal grow hemp in the US. Why do you think that is?

I hate to be lazy and use Wiki, but the following is the original reason for it being illegal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marihuana_Tax_Act_of_1937

They thought it would cull the influx of Mexican immigrants and give them a reason to stay home.  It would have been legal to posses, use, etc if one had the stamp, however, there were no stamps ever issued (not in bulk, anyhow)

The Gov. tried the same thing with opium and the Chinese.

Both plans failed.

[sunfan1121]

That's the excuse they gave to congress, but it was all about money.

[RTHolmes]

its hardly promoting weed, if you recognise the plant variety from that 1/2s clip you've either:

 a. grown/smoked weed or
 b. arrested someone for growing/smoking weed.

otherwise its just a foxy older chick holding some kind of houseplant.

[VonMessa]

That's the excuse they gave to congress, but it was all about money.

That is just a given.

Underlying everything, it's ALWAYS about the money