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  • MrKLM
    Member
    • Apr 2006
    • 3146

    #1

    Don't Smoke Pot or You Will Suck at Videogames

    Don't do drugs and then play video games! Why? Because the government says you will suck according to a report by the Huffington Post. Read More:

    The White House Drug Czar's office has tumbled through a cascading set of warnings about the dangers of marijuana over the years. The drug that once would fry your brain or lead to heroin addiction has recently been downgraded to a cause of sloth.

    The softer ads argue that while it might not kill you, pot will make you a couch potato and a good-for-nothing loser.

    Now, the Drug Czar Office (currently run by acting chief Ed Jurith) is going one further: not only will marijuana sink you into hours of wasted time on your couch, you won't even be any good at video games while you're sitting there.

    "Getting high affects your brain in ways that may directly influence your gaming ability," warns the Drug Czar's Web site, citing the impairment of "many of the skills required for winning a background, defeating an opponent, [and] beating games."

    To dramatize how bad a stoner can be at video games, the site interviews a computer-generated character who laments the demise of a gamer friend of hers. "I used to have a good time with Lyle. We made a good team. He had skill. He had swiftness," she says. "Well, he used to, anyway. Then our last fight, Lyle decided to get high. And it was simply: sayonara skill, sayonara swiftness."

    The 2009 budget allocates $100 million for the Drug Czar's media campaign.

    Read the whole article here. And be sure to check out "Above The Influence" website on high gaming here.
  • [MyIS]Airborne
    MyIS Tournament Director
    • Apr 2003
    • 55

    #2
    Re: Don't Smoke Pot or You Will Suck at Videogames

    I think there will be a lot of REAL gamers who will say Ed Jurith has no idea what he is talking about.

    AB

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    • Obsidian Spire
      Member
      • Oct 2008
      • 705

      #3
      Re: Don't Smoke Pot or You Will Suck at Videogames

      Marijuana's demonization has truly come to this? Lol.

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      • MrKLM
        Member
        • Apr 2006
        • 3146

        #4
        Re: Don't Smoke Pot or You Will Suck at Videogames

        Originally posted by wafflecopter
        Marijuana's demonization has truly come to this? Lol.
        When you watch all the american ad's they focus on sports and other things teens or young adults enjoy one of these being gaming so I'm not surprised to see this.

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        • chaos555
          Member
          • Sep 2026
          • 405

          #5
          Re: Don't Smoke Pot or You Will Suck at Videogames

          This isn't true...

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          • Wizrdwarts
            Member
            • Dec 2006
            • 3754

            #6
            Re: Don't Smoke Pot or You Will Suck at Videogames

            No really!?

            If you were high, would you really care about your k/d ratio?

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            • MrKLM
              Member
              • Apr 2006
              • 3146

              #7
              Re: Don't Smoke Pot or You Will Suck at Videogames

              "I press Jump to get High"

              http://twitter.com/Goon360/status/1302652706

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              • Death Merchant
                Member
                • Feb 2006
                • 1090

                #8
                Re: Don't Smoke Pot or You Will Suck at Videogames

                Cant stop laughing at the **** anti-drug campaigners come out with these days

                :laugh:

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                • Dairuka
                  Member
                  • Aug 2006
                  • 2730

                  #9
                  Re: Don't Smoke Pot or You Will Suck at Videogames

                  Friends don't let friends drink and game.

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                  • Shawn Zipay
                    Managing Communities 24/7
                    • Apr 2003
                    • 69279

                    #10
                    Re: Don't Smoke Pot or You Will Suck at Videogames

                    Originally posted by [MyIS]Airborne
                    I think there will be a lot of REAL gamers who will say Ed Jurith has no idea what he is talking about.

                    AB
                    Haha, exactly. The number of people who claim to be "high" while playing a game is staggering. They don't seem to do any better or any worse than those who aren't on anything.

                    Also, I'm glad the Huffington Post was the reporting media for this particular piece. Fitting.

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                    • MrKLM
                      Member
                      • Apr 2006
                      • 3146

                      #11
                      Re: Don't Smoke Pot or You Will Suck at Videogames

                      So many times while playing the PS3 (it never happened on the PC) people will be on VOIP and say "hold on man I'll brb gonna smoke this bowl."

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                      • jesus
                        Member
                        • May 2007
                        • 2413

                        #12
                        Re: Don't Smoke Pot or You Will Suck at Videogames

                        Originally posted by Dairuka
                        Friends don't let friends drink and game.

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                        • [MyIS]Airborne
                          MyIS Tournament Director
                          • Apr 2003
                          • 55

                          #13
                          Re: Don't Smoke Pot or You Will Suck at Videogames

                          Originally posted by Manzi
                          So many times while playing the PS3 (it never happened on the PC) people will be on VOIP and say "hold on man I'll brb gonna smoke this bowl."
                          LOL go to some of the TS channels I have to go yo and you will hear it :-)

                          AB

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                          • YewNork
                            Member
                            • Jun 2007
                            • 10

                            #14
                            Re: Don't Smoke Pot or You Will Suck at Videogames

                            lol i know people that play BETTER being high off pot. idk y but it is true for some reason. although it maybe true that it makes you play bad for the majority, it is not a FACT. just more propaganda without unbiased proof.

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                            • Lt Davis
                              Thorakitos
                              • Apr 2007
                              • 651

                              #15
                              Re: Don't Smoke Pot or You Will Suck at Videogames

                              Originally posted by Manzi
                              So many times while playing the PS3 (it never happened on the PC) people will be on VOIP and say "hold on man I'll brb gonna smoke this bowl."
                              Originally posted by [MyIS]Airborne
                              LOL go to some of the TS channels I have to go yo and you will hear it :-)

                              AB
                              I've been hearing that in L4D a lot lol, never in any other game.

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