I seem to remember an old-school SNL parody featuring Jane Curtin playing a tweaker housewife doing an ad for 'Speed.'

(I also remember in the first episode of the Brady Bunch, Mike calls Carol and says he's nervous about the wedding and she says (I shit you not) "Take a tranquilizer." Sure, Mike, wash it down with a double vodka, you'll be mellow as jello.

And they have the nerve to go all drug war these days.

Heh.

What I find interesting is how disorienting it is to see all these ads aimed at doctors. I hadn't realized I'd gotten so used to consumer marketing from drug companies.

Truth be told, one of the most interesting epiphenomena of drug legalization would be the first ads for recreational drugs*. I can only imagine what a field day Madison Avenue would have with pot, acid, and coke.


*barring booze and tobacco

MTV, I think it was, was having one of their too-rare documentary days a few weeks ago, with a marathon about drug culture through the ages. I saw the episode on the late 60s, before LSD was made illegal, and they did show the marketing trends that came out of that drug culture, and how "wink wink, nudge nudge" a lot of mainstream ads were at the time. It was kinda neat.

Wow.

I can just picture old-school slogan-slinging applied to drugs though. Weed could probably fall back on the 'smooth, refreshing taste' euphemisms of cigarettes, but what of LSD? You can't dance around what it's for, so they'd have to take the direct approach:

"Try Owsley's Acid. If the walls aren't breathing in 20 minutes, you get a full refund."