Comments on: "Ten Little Indians" drug abuse PSA from 1972

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 02:22:00 +0000

Since this takes 65 minutes less to get to the same place, I’m going with this being more entertaining.

By: QuiGonBong

QuiGonBong — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 02:17:00 +0000

That was almost as entertaining as Reefer Madness.

By: Mark_Frauenfelder

Mark_Frauenfelder — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:22:00 +0000

I liked it because it reminded me of something Scorsese or the Maysles Brothers would have done.

By: dominic fitzsimmons

dominic fitzsimmons — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:24:00 +0000

The British equivalent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0GyRz_lOQA

By: tré

tré — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 16:07:00 +0000

“Hmmm… I’ve smoked weed and it hasn’t killed me… I wonder what else they were lying about.” – everyone who’s ever been exposed to drug war propaganda.

By: Werther deGoethe

Werther deGoethe — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 01:54:00 +0000

The original ditty/poem didn’t use the word “indians.” They used a much more offensive (to our modern ears) term. Look it up yourself.

By: Gendun

Gendun — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:58:00 +0000

I believe “Native American” is the preferred nomenclature.

By: knockwurst

knockwurst — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:54:00 +0000

I started getting high in high school. Many of the kids who I smoked weed with back then went on to have normal lives. But others, like me, had a really hard time with drugs and of that crowd, I’m the only one who eventually got clean. The others died, and died miserably. I do not support the war on drugs, but I don’t support drugs either.

It’s not just anti-drug hysteria that makes people want to steer kids away from drugs. There are a lot of people whose lives are destroyed by addiction.

By: Woody Smith

Woody Smith — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:04:00 +0000

Forty years ago I told my best friend I intended to commit suicide. He nodded…and insisted I try LSD first. I was afraid to. He said, “You idiot, are you afraid you’ll go crazy and kill yourself?”

By the time I’d come down, I was no longer suicidal. And have never been so even momentarily since, despite having experienced all the classic traumas, from the death of loved ones to professional ruin to catastrophic illness.Or, putting it another way, the song lies.

By: Frank Diekman

Frank Diekman — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 19:51:00 +0000

So the theme is no matter what you do, somehow drugs will kill you.

By: Alejandro_the_Great

Alejandro_the_Great — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 19:41:00 +0000

Wow. Bob Barker looked the same in 1972 and 1992, maybe even 2002.

By: joe k.

joe k. — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:59:00 +0000

As a Native American, I am deeply insulted that there were very few actual Indians depicted in that PSA.

By: billstewart

billstewart — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:41:00 +0000

One died of hepatitis. Because needles were illegal. Because that was supposed to “help” addicts by making it harder for them to abuse drugs. Regardless of how you feel about legalizing drugs in general, the drug paraphernalia laws have caused far more harm than good, and it’s time to end them.

By: look_alive

look_alive — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:01:00 +0000

Well, my my! What a festive little ditty about death and destruction!

(clap) (clap) (clap) (clap)

By: james marshall

james marshall — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:20:00 +0000

-sings-
and if weed was legal and these indians had land
addiction wouldnt be a problem and they could fuck The Man
yes there are too many chiefs and not enough indians
the white mans policy was put them in prison