Over the past week, Anti-SQ 788 campaign ads that portray medical marijuana to be way more cool and fun than it actually is hit TV airwaves across Oklahoma.
According to tabloid media reports, the ads “are part of a $433,000 media buy” that’s being funded by a hodgepodge collective of oil overlords, medical and law enforcement groups, chamber lackeys and stodgy moralist holy rollers. You know, the standard mix of local authoritarian power brokers who know what’s best for you and your body, and demand you live your life according to their antiquated, mid-20th century values.
As expected, the ads are comically negative, and spread absurd lies and unfounded fears about SQ 788 in a desperate effort to get uninformed white Christian church-going folk to vote against it. They’re going this route because lies and fear are the only legitimate reasons to be against medical marijuana. Unless you abstain from all drugs, there’s not a rational argument to be made against medical marijuana without looking like a totally hypocrite.
Here’s the commercial in case you haven’t seen it:
To all of my friends who live out-of-state, I swear that is not satirical. That’s a real commercial that airs on real television in Oklahoma City. Ignoring the blatant lies, I think my favorite part is how the ads inadvertently give stoners and college students more reasons to Vote Yes.
For example:
So, you’re telling me if SQ 788 passes that people will be able to use marijuana for any reason??? Uhm… That’s awesome news! Great!!! Like most Americans, I believe law-abiding adults should be able to use marijuana for any reason and not have to worry about going to jail. Thanks for using one of the main selling points for medical marijuana to campaign against medical marijuana!
Naturally, the other points against SQ 788 are blatant exaggerations that misrepresent what the measure will accomplish. My favorite one is…
Once again, are they trying to get people to vote no or yes on this thing? The only thing these ads have accomplished is making me want to go back to college:
“Who’s that strange white-hired old guy?”
“He’s the floor’s weed supplier.”
Unfortunately, that claim is an unfounded lie. If a student can’t drink alcohol or light candles in a dorm room, they’re not going to be able to grow 12 pounds of flower in a closet either. For now, I guess incoming freshman are going to have to stick with more traditional ways of being cool and popular, like binge drinking dangerous amounts of alcohol at frat parties.
Anyway, it will be interesting to see what, if any, effect these Reefer Madness ads have on voters. I think it will be minimal.
Although a $433,000 ad buy may seem like a lot of money, it’s actually a drop in the bucket when compared to other initiatives and state questions the Oklahoma Ruling Class has backed or opposed. They’re spending such a low amount because they know SQ 788 will likely pass, and they don’t want to invest too much money in a losing effort. In fact, I’d bet an 1/8th of Blue Dream that the current opposition campaign was primarily created to placate Republican allies in the law enforcement and holy roller communities. They love using lies and misinformation to gain power, so I’m sure they were all for it.
Funny how that address in the fine print is for a ups store and the phone # ties back to a cell phone for someone in blanchard
Oddly enough, the things they’re threatening may happen sound like pretty enticing reasons to vote yes.
Even if it passes the legislature is already planning to fuck it up for everyone, to paraphrase DL Hughley.
https://kfor.com/2018/06/18/fallin-predicts-special-session-if-medical-marijuana-passes/
As in every other instance, the governor and her trained dogs in the legislature are way behind the curve on the marijuana issue. They could have set aside time in the most recent legislative session to do some planning but working to destroy all instances of social services in the state was seen as more important.
Instead there will be another expensive special session to obstruct and obfuscate. Way to run down a state Mary!
Can’t this useless hag just stay under her rock till she finally goes away?
We all know how stupid she is & what these”special sessions are really about. She couldn’t come up with a solution to a problem if she had another 5 terms on a carnival cruse with the entire Ok St. Trooper staff.
The legislators cannot take away anything from the way it is written now they can only add to it and they cannot add “Qualifying Conditions” as it already states “No Qualifying Condition” Not one form of medicine requires a “Qualifying Condition”. Doctors prescribe medicine that will benefit you for your illness. No way you can get 12 pounds from 6 plants in 12 months from in an indoor grow. That would be a pound a month and it takes 8 to 12 weeks from seed to harvest. Six indoor plants would yield about 7 ounces if you know what your are doing as cultivating cannabis is a science and takes a lot of practice to get it right.
Dear Mary, Stop, just stop, trying to regulate morality, especially your version of it. It just doesn’t work out well, and you might want to check with Christina about recreational MJ.
“Fallin said the state question is so loosely written that it “basically allows recreational marijuana in the state of Oklahoma.”
Which is why the Legislature will call a special session to write regulations if it passes. Also, if you can’t light up in a restaurant to begin with how are you going to light a blunt?? Growing pot in a dorm room is such a stupid statement too!!
Check out the facts at https://okobserver.org/jun-18-newsmakers/
Spread the word, check the facts – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjIxDl56myM&t=29s
Spot On Article !!
The sad part is, while it is obvious that turdburglers against 788 are spreading lies, but if rational people don’t show up to vote, we get a proverbial “Mary Fallin wins again”.
And just what did we expect?
Honest OK LEO ad:
Fellow citizens, if you vote to make this evil weed legal, you will be robbing heroic OK police departments of not just one but two sources of “revenue enhancement”.
In that we will no longer be able to throw people in jail with the accompanying fines, fees and court costs…but also depriving slave labor to countless chicken processing plants throughout this great state!
Don’t forget, medical weed will also allow countless of your pain afflicted brethren to ditch opioids, not only depriving our medical establishment of needed dollars..but once again starving local, state police, lawyers and judges of valuable heroin (hillbilly and otherwise) related arrest defense revenue – as well as cruelly curtailing the countless unconstitutional property seizures we have all grown so dependent on.
Vote No Oklahoma! Your heroic public servants in law enforcement are depending on it!
Those dumasses. I started smoking dope back in the early seventies. After almost fifty years? It hasn’t done nothing to me. I’m still living in my same old bedroom playing Pong all day and drinking Boone’s Farm Strawberry and watching Dr. Who and Monty Python all night.
What channel for Monty Python?
After 50 years of smoking dope you don’t need a TV!
Dunno. It only comes on that TV in the laundry room. The one sitting next to the washing machine.
That was my reply, where can I get this Monty Python and does it come with total frontal nudity
Pong? Jeez, bro, spring for an old PS2 or Nintendo Cube or something. What’s an ounce there, like, 25 bucks? You can spare it.
You don’t need no Mother Nature,all you need is Jesus!
Oh and a twelve step program and Jesus.
Ambien and Jesus and a twelve step program and that is all you need.
Jesus and Ambien and AA and insulin and Nitro and TSET and that is all except for Preparation H,you need that.
Narcanol,how could i forget that?
Oh yeah Dr Scholl’s bunnion remover.
And Dulcolax,you got to go sometime,amirite?
Metamucil.
Uh,you really need a nostril hair trimmer but i am not judging being a Christian and all. Except you really should soak those dentures.
See? The point is that you do not need drugs.
Except for Viagra! Thank Jesus that you can get that on Medicare,Hallelujah for that!
Unfortunately, there is no twelve-step program for recovery from stupid. Oklahoma is in desperate need of such a thing.
Jesus? Is that the dude’s name? Man he’s got some killer weed!
DON’T ASSUME IT WILL PASS – GET OUT THERE AND VOTE YES!!!! VOTE!!!!! Crazy Larry out.
Let’s look at the State Question. Mary stonewalls on when to put it on the ballot, then she is told to put it on the Primary, so fewer people will vote, so her supporters can control the number voting and the issue will fail. Uh oh, almost 50,000 new voters sign up, and can vote in the primary. Quick go to the playbook, buy a bunch of scare ads to get it defeated. Tell local sheriffs that if this passes they can say goodbye to that line item in every city and county’s budget of seized assets. Scare the public some more, it always works.
Then even if it passes, overturn it, make sure Mike Hunter continues to be the Attorney General so he can bless the overturn saying it is legal. Pump some money into his campaign so the office can be run just like it was in the good old days when Scott Pruitt was there.
You can smell the desperation going on after a Daily Oklahoman poll showed in one of their polls that the people who visit their website favor the state question. What happened to the Oklahoma Standard? Dogs must now be marrying cats and Mary is melting. What is happening in Oklahoma the old guard is asking.
All I can figure out is one of Mary’s advisors told her “The peasants are revolting” and like you expect from Queen Mary responded with “You can say that again.”
Perhaps times are a changin’ but the old guard won’t be going away into the night quietly. If the question passes the November elections should be even more interesting if enough people ask candidates if they intend to overturn or modify the question in the next session. That, combined with the possibility that the teachers won’t get their promised raises in August prior to the November election because of the potential repeal of the tax that funded the raise.
It’s going to be fun voting these bums out that got us into this mess.
+%100
Well put, DumbOkie!! It’s time to drain the swamp!!
UPDATES FROM CRAZY LARRY – don’ forget to sign the petition for FULL RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA IN OKLAHOMA. Not joking. We could be voting on recreational marijuana in November. https://gtvok.com/locations