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Ecstasy: Face Facts video winners

Haha I have to agree the choice one was shite! It looked more like a freakin panadol than a pill. I'd like to see a similar pro-ecstacy add done with alcohol vs mdma, one side having the protagonist vomiting, picking a fight, breaking up with his girlfriend, etc, the other side showing someone in complete and utter bliss, eyes wobbling like they were made of jelly, roaming around making friends with everyone, hugging strangers, and contemplating the deeper meanings of their life, existance and the universe.... oh yeh wait, the government doesn't want you to know about that crap....

To be honest as sensationalist as the winning clip was, I do think it was done well. I can see why it won.
 
It's a pity the government won't think through the issue logically. If the main argument against ecstasy is that it's made by dodgy cooks in unhygienic conditions with unreliable contents then wouldn't it make more sense to regulate MDMA instead of outlawing it?
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That's what always shits me about these propaganda adds. None of them are even saying MDMA is horrible for you, they all focus on the fact that pills are cooked in dodgy conditions, or are contaminated, or don't contain MDMA at all. And who's fucking fault is that? It's illegal because they say it's bad, but it's bad because they say it's illegal. Just baffles me.
 
chefping said:
more and more silly scare tactics that do nothing to educate the youth of today about drugs.
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and sadly a lot of the youth of today believe this shit

interestingly they have stopped trying to make out how ecstasy is bad but rather that its a gamble with what you get... how about you just legalise mdma... fucking hell :|
 
Crankinit said:
That's what always shits me about these propaganda adds. None of them are even saying MDMA is horrible for you, they all focus on the fact that pills are cooked in dodgy conditions, or are contaminated, or don't contain MDMA at all. And who's fucking fault is that? It's illegal because they say it's bad, but it's bad because they say it's illegal. Just baffles me.
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Ditto.

I mean we all complain about how stupid these types of advertisements are but shock advertising is usually well received by its target.

It does piss me off that they are saying MDMA is bad because of the conditions in which it is made in, that is true however those somewhat "filthy" conditions are due to prohibiting the manufacturing of MDMA and not because of its ill health effects which mind you aren't mentioned in the first two ads if I can remember correctly?

This is advertising however and hopefully government research shows that youth responds better to this sort of bullshit advertising compared to factual information. As I said before I doubt its long term efficacy with respect to today's youth but it's apparently the best solution to get teenagers to stop eating ecstasy and listen more to government authority :S
 
#1 I think the analogy was well intentioned.
#2 was clever, with the dealer and all. Too bad everyone busted.
#3 boring
#4 funny
#5 was very good. Have a dance, lie around for a while wondering when sleep will come. Somewhat realistic.
#6 artsy.

Good work to the entrants... nothing particularly groundbreaking. At least they didn't call anyone a dick head. Or make fun of red heads.

BT :)
 
Jordan` said:
It does piss me off that they are saying MDMA is bad because of the conditions in which it is made in, that is true however those somewhat "filthy" conditions are due to prohibiting the manufacturing of MDMA and not because of its ill health effects.
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They aren't really saying that it's MDMA though. They are saying that the conditions in which ecstasy is made are filthy and I wouldn't doubt that some of the current crap on our streets is made in filthy conditions. Anyone that holds human life low enough to press the likes of today's pills, can't have very clean manufacturing habits.

The real deal MDMA is often made in fairly clean to extremely clean labs, by talented chemists. Most MDMA labs are very professional operations and far from filthy, even though they are clandestine operations.
 
PsiloSubNaut said:
They aren't really saying that it's MDMA though. They are saying that the conditions in which ecstasy is made are filthy and I wouldn't doubt that some of the current crap on our streets is made in filthy conditions. Anyone that holds human life low enough to press the likes of today's pills, can't have very clean manufacturing habits.
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Thanks should've written ecstasy :)
 
Good production on the winner for sure and it does have a point... we dont know what cooks are putting in to pills these days or in the past and Ive had a few "bad" ones that had little or no Mdxx in them,....could have been anything which I think is the point of the video.

The Choice one however shows me what I can see every weekend on Hindley Street in Adelaide....DRUNK teenagers vomiting and unable to walk!
 
As has been mentioned, I'm just suprised the government has been fueling so much money into anti-ecstasy campaigns when it's such a dead drug at the moment.

Or maybe more pipes are being had then us bluelighters realise, maybe the market is actually thriving despite the people who refuse to have pills theres always fresh teens making their way onto what they think is ecstasy.

But on topic of the video, I think he deserved to win. It wasn't a bad clip, I think it was a bit over the top, but the government do love their scare tactics.
 
Who would I vote for in government that wouldn't do campaigns like this?

I know they probably aren't a major party but I want my vote to go in the right place
 
Clearly none of the people who made these videos have ever taken ecstasy or have any real grasp of the culture or the risks involved.

What a load of shite.

clop
 
clop said:
Clearly none of the people who made these videos have ever taken ecstasy or have any real grasp of the culture or the risks involved.

What a load of shite.

clop
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Well nobody who did would ever enter the competition in the first case, and if they did, they probably wouldn't be selected as a winner...

'Ecstasy feels awesome and most of the scary stuff is a direct result of prohibition' doesn't do much for the government's campaign of fear and ignorance.
 
Crankinit said:
Well nobody who did would ever enter the competition in the first case, and if they did, they probably wouldn't be selected as a winner...

'Ecstasy feels awesome and most of the scary stuff is a direct result of prohibition' doesn't do much for the government's campaign of fear and ignorance.
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Couldn't have said it better myself. Even if there was numerous entries "promoting" - or at least softening the social stigma around - around ecstasy the government certainly wouldn't be promoting these videos. of course the (pro-prohibition) government has a biased view of drug use.
 
God you'd hope 'ecstasy isn't cool' is a piss take. It's really is interesting how the focus of ecstasy related campaigns have moved so far away from focussing on the actual chemical (Ie- MDMA) yet members of the public are still yet to draw a distinction between the harms that result from bad pills and the drug itself (which although we all know do exist are almost never really shown)
 
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