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The PSA was once a staple of American television. I loved them. You could be watching a football game, or an episode of Punky Brewster, and then BAM... the powers that be and the power of celebrity would send you a reminder that you shouldn't use drugs. I remember all too well sitting in my comfortable suburban living room and putting down my imaginary crack pipe because Pee Wee Herman warned me about the dangers. Thank goodness, I listened.
Wait... Pee Wee Herman did anti-drug PSAs? Lol. Yes he did!
You might wonder if having Pee Wee Herman do an anti-crack PSA might undermine the seriousness of the message and you'd be right to wonder. This makes absolutely no sense... at least not until one watches the PSA. (He really sells you on it.) But if the ad were not so good, you might almost conclude that not taking this epidemic seriously - while pretending to do so - was the entire point! Surely not. If it were, then you might also have to conclude that the War on Drugs was an excuse for the police to bother the country's most vulnerable people.
Well, I ask you, if someone failed to listen to that PSA above, what else could have been done?
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