Sentences to ponder

~ Jason Schwartz

I can be a pretty naive guy, so this may not mean much, but I found this jaw-dropping. [emphasis mine]

With blu, we can still be ourselves.

After all, this country was founded on free will.

Consider this kind of marketing strategy with marijuana.

UPDATE: I’m all for moving away from locking people up, but I worry about legalized drugs combined with capitalism and marketing.

That ad’s appeal to identity is so dishonest and frames addiction as an expression of freedom and character, but it’s easy to imagine it being very powerful. Ugh!

Published by Jason Schwartz

I have been an addiction professional and social worker since 1994. I started blogging in 2005 as the Clinical Director at Dawn Farm. I no longer work at Dawn Farm and am now the Director of Behavioral Medicine at a community hospital, and a lecturer at Eastern Michigan University’s School of Social Work. Views expressed here are my own. Keep in mind that the field, the contexts in which the field operates, and my views have changed over time.

3 thoughts on “Sentences to ponder”

  1. Wow. Thanks for sharing. And for making the connection to marijuana–seems obvious now that you mention it, but I hadn’t made it on my own.

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    1. I’m all for moving away from locking people up, but I worry about legalized drugs combined with capitalism and marketing.

      That ad’s appeal to identity is so dishonest and frames addiction as an expression of freedom and character, but it’s easy to imagine it being very powerful. Ugh!

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