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[Machina]

I can't believe we're almost into 2016 and any government on earth is still wasting money on anti-pot ads. Like really?

 

[DICKS AHOY]

Their website gives out pretty mixed messages.

 

[Bl@de]

The sounds this sloth makes ... Some Silent Hill shit.

 

[ilikeme]

This is amazing. Haven't laughed this hard in a long while.

But it seems more like an anti-bullying campaign to me. Stop bullying the Stoner Sloths!

 

[D.Lo]

And the Premier tweeted:

Someone's getting fired

That's just Mr Smiley following his expensive PR team's orders and jumping on another pop-culture bandwagon so he can sell his bullshit Liberal 'sell all assets for peanuts to our rich benefactors' policies.

Just like his Delorean ride for Back to the Future II day etc.

 

[Maximo]

Oh my lord this is amazing.

 

[Subpar Scrub]

I can't believe we're almost into 2016 and any government on earth is still wasting money on anti-pot ads. Like really?

G'day mate, gotta make sure those true blue kids aren't blazing up. Bloody oath, what If the little rippers fang their commy Utes down to the pub and hit some poor Sheila getting her slab a VBs while high. Dole-bludger kush rippers should get a kick up the dacks. Crickey. Give the kids a jar of vegemite and a chiko roll, that'll set em straight.

I think it's stupid as well, our government is great at wasting money.

 

[lazygecko]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOVQikY-LyA

 

[nampad]

It actually fits my last roommate. Guy was such a stoner sloth.

 

[Chmpocalypse]

These are stupid. But yeah, stoners are lazy as fuck.

Nope. I know many active, successful ones. Probably way more productive and valuable than, say, you.

 

[besada]

Just comfirming my preconception that all anti-drug campaigns have been secretly subverted by stoners to make other stoners laugh.

 

[scoobidoo112]

Just comfirming my preconception that all anti-drug campaigns have been secretly subverted by stoners to make other stoners laugh.

Echo Three-Niner, we've got a turd in the punch bowl. I repeat, we have a turd in the punch bowl. Over.

 

[charsace]

Awesome propaganda. This applies to alcohol not weed.

 

[Fusebox]

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/stone...rget-in-the-war-on-drugs-20151220-glrsqw.html

Interesting comment about how our emergency wards are filled with alcohol related injuries yet the Govt decides that alcohol should be the socially acceptable choice.

 

[Psychoward]

my favorite part is they have underage drinking which is much more harmful to the body

 

[cameron]

The Guardian: "‘Stoner sloth’ anti-drug campaign gets reality check as medical experts walk away"

National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre distances itself from widely mocked NSW government ads which depict marijuana users as sloths

A leading drug research centre has distanced itself from the NSW government’s bizarre “stoner sloth” campaign, which attempts to warn teenagers against the dangers of sustained marijuana use by depicting them as disturbingly oversized versions of the South American mammal.

In a pyrrhic victory for the NSW government, the stoner sloth campaign has gone viral but the anti-drug message appears to have lost out to the internet’s dual love of mocking failed ad campaigns, and sloths.

The campaign was initially linked to the National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre (NCPI), which has responded with a statement saying their involvement was limited to providing an initial basic analysis of other anti-cannabis campaigns, and some general recommendations.

“In this case, those general recommendations were things like being aware that teenagers are intelligent and have access to a lot of information, so campaign approaches should respect them and give them credit by avoiding hyperbole,” the statement said.

They said they were not involved in the campaign development and learned of the stoner sloth idea when the ads were released this week, and added: “While we wish the NSW government luck in future cannabis campaigns, the current stoner sloth campaign doesn’t reflect NCPIC views on how cannabis harms campaigns should be approached, as was implied by the media.”

In an embarrassing oversight, the stoner sloth campaign shares a name with an online cannabis store. Leave the Australian domain off stonersloth.com.au and you will be directed to a website with the tagline, “enjoy every smoking experience”.

 

[Hale-XF11]

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/stone...rget-in-the-war-on-drugs-20151220-glrsqw.html

Unfortunately, #StonerSloth is the latest demonstration of our government's lethargy in dealing effectively with the health damage caused by drugs, legal and illegal.

How ironic.

 

[saunderez]

This is amazing. Haven't laughed this hard in a long while.

But it seems more like an anti-bullying campaign to me. Stop bullying the Stoner Sloths!

Yeah its bullshit sloths are being taken from the jungle and being placed with families and forced to do human activities like attend school.

 

[Marky Mark]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOVQikY-LyA

As soon as I saw the first frame of the video I started laughing.

 

[Nyx]

This is freaking hilarious.

 

[Chariot]

The Guardian: "‘Stoner sloth’ anti-drug campaign gets reality check as medical experts walk away"

In an embarrassing oversight, the stoner sloth campaign shares a name with an online cannabis store. Leave the Australian domain off stonersloth.com.au and you will be directed to a website with the tagline, “enjoy every smoking experience”.

lmao, did really nobody check this?

 

[Krejlooc]

Summer Heights High forever ruined the Australian accent for me. Whenever someone says "Stoner Sloth" in these ads, all I hear is Ja'mie.

 

[Johndoey]

God these Ads are great.

Summer Heights High forever ruined the Australian accent for me. Whenever someone says "Stoner Sloth" in these ads, all I hear is Ja'mie.

Hey
You
That's

Spoiler

Cold as ice

 

[Chuckie]

I'm high and this shit is hilarious.

I'm sober and this shit is hilarious.

 

[Discotheque]

oh my god this is hilarious, i'm dying at the dinner table one. plus the melodramatic music is making it even better.

instant classics.

 

[Alienfan]

Oh my god, this is just the best! http://www.stonersloth.com.au/ The website is even better, the memes/captions give very mixed messages lol. I mean the marketing team are geniuses, I'm just not sure it's getting the message across that was maybe intended.

 

[GiantEnemyGoomba]

Saw this the other day and the top comment fucking slayed me:

"Sloth passed that bitch a salad because that is weed's way of saying she needs to watch her fucking sodium intake."

 

[NiMe Rli]

Have we figured out if this is real or not?

 

[Beren the Empty-Handed]

I burst out laughing. That was amazing!

Thank you, Australia. Quality entertainment.

 

[ajim]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOVQikY-LyA

Hahahaha that's amazing!

 

[nilbog21]

It's like whoever is running this campaign hired a bunchh of people who smoke weed in the free time and had some fun with it

Regardless it looks more like an antibullying campaign than antiweed

 

[1.21Gigawatts]

The music sounds like a stoner version of the godfather theme.

 

[Boney]

Their website gives out pretty mixed messages.

This is amazing