Pothead cuisine?
Now that its leadership only has a few weeks left in power, the Office of National Drug Control Policy has come down with a case of the munchies.
“Become a Burrito Taster!” screams its latest print ad, designed to look like an old-school comic book pitch. “Start earning now! Why waste the best days of your life going to college when you can become a burrito taster. Money, power and jet packs are some of the benefits that a certified Burrito Taster enjoys.”
The punchline comes at the bottom: “[T]here aren’t many jobs out there for potheads.” (Other ads tout the “jobs” of “couch security guard” and “TV remote control operator.”)
The ads appear on the drug czar’s Web site alongside its “Stoners in the Mist” video, which gives you a “closer look into the life of a stoner,” and another video in which a kid who takes drugs is enveloped in a cocoon, only to come out as a schlubby-looking, bald, middle-aged guy.
It’s all a bit much for the folks at a Marijuana Policy Project, which supports a relaxing of anti-pot laws. “We couldn’t make this stuff up,” said Bruce Mirken, MPP’s director of communications. “Our jaws just collectively dropped.”
He said drug czar John Walters has run a number of ads during his tenure, and “some have borne at least some relationship to reality.”
On MPP’s blog, Mirken continues: “By the way, jobs held by people who’ve acknowledged smoking marijuana include governor of California (Arnold Schwarzenegger), astronomer (Carl Sagan), mayor of New York (Michael Bloomberg), billionaire rock star/songwriter (Paul McCartney), and — well, you get the point.”
