I saw this anti-drug coalition commercial last night: two teenage boys are sitting in what seems to be the plush home office of one of their parents. One is sitting at the desk, the other in an easy chair. They’re smoking pot and obviously quite stoned - mellow, slow, slurring their words. You wonder where this is going until one of them opens the top drawer and pulls out a gun. Not realizing what it is, he holds it weakly towards his friend. Completely relaxed, his glassy-eyed friend asks if the gun’s loaded, and the other kid inadvertently shoots him.

The word “HARMLESS?” comes on the screen, meaning the marijuana.

Does it strike anyone else as perverted, that pot is shown as the harmful thing here, when there’s a loaded gun in the unlocked top drawer? Are they saying this is a normal thing to have in one’s house?