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GAO: $1 Bil.+ Anti-Drug Effort Ineffective 
Posted by CN Staff on August 25, 2006 at 14:13:08 PT
By Wendy Melillo 
Source: Ad Week 
Washington, DC -- A Government Accountability Office probe of the White House's anti-drug media campaign has found that the $1 billion-plus spent on the effort so far has not been effective in reducing teen drug use. The report recommends that Congress limit funding until the Office of National Drug Control Policy "provides credible evidence of a media campaign approach that effectively prevents and curtails youth drug use."
The report comes at a time when Congress is poised to take up the anti-drug media campaign budget when it returns from its recess. The campaign's current budget is $99 million, the lowest since the effort began in 1998. ONDCP has asked for $120 million next year. The Senate agrees with that amount, but the House has recommended $100,000.The GAO report examined the Westat survey, named after the Rockville, Md., research firm that was awarded the contract in 1998 to evaluate the campaign. Since then, the government has spent $42 million on a survey that has been a constant thorn in ONDCP's side because critics argue that it uses a flawed methodology. The survey has concluded that the campaign raises awareness among parents but has done little to alter teen drug use. Critics charge that Westat did not start measuring the campaign's effectiveness until nearly 18 months after the launch, so the baseline is off. Westat once reported that the campaign contributed to an increase in marijuana use among teenage girls, a finding that captured media attention. When the campaign changed its target audience and creative was directed at 11- to 15-year-olds, Westat continued to measure the previous demo of 9- to 11-year-olds and was unable to measure the new target. In a five-page response to the GAO report, drug czar John Walters questions the validity of the Westat measurement tool because it seeks to directly prove that advertising caused teens to stop using drugs. "Establishing a causal relationship between exposure and outcomes is something major marketers rarely attempt because it is virtually impossible to do," Walters wrote. "This is one reason why the 'Truth' anti-tobacco advertising campaign, acclaimed as a successful initiative in view of the significant declines we've seen in teen smoking, did not claim to prove a causal relationship between campaign exposure and smoking outcomes, reporting instead that the campaign was associated with substantial declines in youth smoking."Nancy Kingsbury, the GAO's managing director of applied research methods, said Walters raised a valid point. "It is a really tough social science question to answer and we understand that," she said. "What puzzles us is that when the [Westat] contract was first put in place, ONDCP got a lot of political capital out of the fact that they had an evaluation. But it's just that it did not come out the way they wanted. I still give them credit for doing it. It is the right thing to do."Kingsbury said Westat has done work in the past for GAO, but that those contracts were in separate divisions that had nothing to do with its current report. Westat handled a $1.6 million contract for GAO from 1997-99 evaluating Medicare and a $534,000 hospital survey done in 2004-05. ONDCP has been in a no-win situation since the GAO probe began, which followed the convictions of two top agency officials for overbilling the government on the campaign. As one observer put it at the time the probe was launched, "If the GAO finds that Westat is a piece of crap, then ONDCP has wasted $42 million. If the report says Westat has somehow found the holy grail of advertising cause and effect, then the campaign is not working by that measure."ONDCP representative Tom Riley points to independent studies showing that teen drug use has declined by 19 percent. "Everybody who follows this issue acknowledges the campaign's role in those great results," he said. "Evaluation is important to us. The most telling statistic is that adult drug use has not appreciably changed while teen drug use [the target of the campaign] has gone down dramatically. I think that's the definition of successful advertising."Stephen Pasierb, president and CEO of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, which coordinates creative on the campaign through 40 agencies, said the GAO probe provides no new learning for the campaign. "There is nothing you can do with this study to change the campaign," he said. "There is no learning here because it seeks to prove something you can't prove. The campaign was never meant to be this kind of a silver bullet."The recent GAO report was prompted by a request from Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., to examine all of the contracts that were part of the media campaign, including ads, public relations and evaluation. Riley said that what matters in the end is balancing the kind of messages teens hear. "Teens are saturated with pro drug messages from rap music, from movies and from other teens around them," he said. "The campaign is the only national source of anti-drug messages and it is vital to continue funding it."Note: ONDCP's latest spots are tagged, 'Above the influence.'  Source: Ad Week (USA)Author: Wendy Melillo Published: August 25, 2006Copyright: 2006 Adweek Contact: info adweek.com Website: http://www.adweek.com/ Related Articles:White House Unveils Latest Anti-Drug Effort http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread21592.shtmlSenators Join Critics Of ONDCP Program http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread17774.shtml Study Faults White House Anti-Drug Adshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18172.shtml 
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Comment #23 posted by ekim on August 26, 2006 at 19:52:19 PT
Please Mr Obama become a Leap Speaker
The drug war fills up Illinois prisonsA new report was issued this week about drug incarceration in Illinois, and I got a chance to glance at the actual report last night. Online versions of the report should be available soon. Some really powerful statistics. The Chicago Tribune reports: 
After two decades of steadily toughening laws, Illinois now puts more people in prison for drug crimes than any state except California, according to a study released Tuesday by Roosevelt University.
The report also found that more people are being incarcerated for possessing narcotics than for selling them and that the state's prisons hold about five black inmates convicted of drug offenses for every white inmate--one of the largest racial disparities in the country.The findings cast doubt on the fairness and effectiveness of Illinois' long campaign against illegal drugs, said Kathleen Kane-Willis, a researcher at Roosevelt's Institute for Metropolitan Affairs."Just locking folks up is not reducing our drug problems, but it's sure costing us a lot of money," she said.And here's a pretty revealing statistic:Illinois incarceration by drug offense:
 Sale Possession 
1983 264 180 
2002 5,761 6,999 
http://www.drugwarrant.com
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Comment #22 posted by FoM on August 26, 2006 at 17:11:24 PT
kaptinemo
I agree with you. 
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Comment #21 posted by kaptinemo on August 26, 2006 at 17:08:39 PT:
One billion dollars...One billion dollars
(Imagine someone walking around in shell-shock mumbling those words.) How many schools, day care centers, hospitals, old folks homes, etc. could have been built with that money? (Not to mention addictive drug treatment centers?) How many pension plans for everyone who got took to the cleaners courtesy of the Enronization of the economy thanks to Republican-allied CEO's could we have bought? How many prescrip medications for oldsters who have to choose between shelter and food or meds? How many medically uninsured Americans could have rested easy tonight if those funds hadn't been diverted for this dog-and-pony show?One billion dollars...one billion dollars. If things keep going like this in this country, if there is ever a finacial collapse thanks to the greed and avarice of the ruling class in America, it will be vastly worse than the Great Depression ever was. And with huge sections of the population marginalized from participating in society, and other sections disaffected or have reason to be outright hostile, all these policy decisions will someday have an effect similar to what happened immediately after the French Revolution. And no amount of gated communities, underground bunkers and whatnot will spare the architects of policy from their eventual fate. For the money that was wasted could have been spent on those who have the least in society...and therefore have the least concern with its welfare, since it appears those who run it have none for theirs. The de facto Powers-That-Be better pray that that disaffection does not someday transform itself into impromptu lynchings if things should go to Hell in a handbasket.(No shell shock now, but rage) One...billion...dollars!
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Comment #20 posted by Had Enough on August 26, 2006 at 16:55:00 PT
CannaBombs Away!!! again
#17 “Now Cannabombs would do it. :)”How about CannaBombs with LOUDspeakers crankin along!!! :) 
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Comment #19 posted by whig on August 26, 2006 at 16:09:33 PT
Asimov's Foundation
We are the Second Church of Christ.
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Comment #18 posted by whig on August 26, 2006 at 16:06:07 PT
Cannabible
Cannabombs reminds me of a lyric I wrote for a song that never got finished....They're bombs! Bombs of love.
Raining down, from above.I was really thinking of an ironic sense, when the actual bombs were being dropped on Yugoslavia. It's my problem with the Democrats. They think this war is bad because it's for a bad purpose, but they think there is such a thing as good wars for moral purposes.War is hate.I don't want to associate cannabis with war. Cannabis is against war.Cannabis must be spoken of as what it is. Cannabis must be a religious sacrament and an entitlement of everyone to have. To forbid cannabis is to forbid the bible and the prophets, it is to forbid God. Because cannabis is what God has ordained for us to be in communion, and when we are without the Tree of Life we are without true communion. What replaces it is the facsimile, the church ritual, the obedience to church elders. We have lost our direct communion and must therefore continue it indirectly.But with cannabis we regain it. It is for this purpose that the church has been given the power it has for the millennia, because it was the preserver of history which we could rely upon today to do what we are doing. We have done this many times, but each time we failed to spread the word widely enough. Each time it was a small enough number of us in a single place, that we could be captured and suppressed, crucified if we did not repent of our word.And so cannabis died out in the oppression that followed the death of Y'shua. It was kept only in the secret places, preserved by one branch of the eternal church. And the other branch, the first foundation, the visible church, it preserved the knowledge which we could manage to write without disclosing too much. Those writings which were more explicit, such as Thomas, had to be buried. But the words that remained in the canon of the Roman Catholic Church were needed, and the words which they preserved were transmitted to all the Protestant denominations, and the word has been spread, even though the people who have been spreading it are motivated often by selfish instincts. And even I have a selfish instinct in presenting my words on a blog, and hoping to be able to continue writing and speaking of these things. No one can be totally pure of self and survive. And so many of us were martyred in the past but we are not going to follow that model this time. We don't want more martyrs, we want everyone to be preservationist of yourselves and your families, and to show everyone that cannabis does not mean you go mad in the desert. Y'shua did it his way, in order that the words be written and preserved. We honor that and we preserve them in combination with the sacrament of cannabis, and so hear the true meanings behind the words which were preserved for us.
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Comment #17 posted by Had Enough on August 26, 2006 at 15:47:39 PT
CannaBombs Away!!!
Toker00 Comment #10I’ve seen those bumper stickers around here too. Whenever I see one, I get a big grin and I think of this website.I like your plans for war (Operation Enduring Truth) better than the ones being used now.I’ve always told people that Cannabis and Rock N Roll could save the world if they would only take a deep breath and listen.Now Cannabombs would do it. :)
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Comment #16 posted by lombar on August 26, 2006 at 11:06:36 PT
more missles = corprorate welfare
"Way too rational for this country!"Moralists would rather kill someone in an attempt to correct what they percieve as wrongful behavior rather than simply learn tolerance. Why do they pick at the mote in my eye will ignoring the beam in their own? (mote = smoking whatever/doing drugs - beam=drug war, lying politicians, politically active police, government opposition of the people...police-prison state... ignorant people dictating how others should live)Warmongers and war profiteers need their conflicts, police actions, illegal invasions, to keep the profits rolling in.Their actions are perfectly rational if you suspend the belief that the 'government is good' which is difficult for most. Why is it such a cliche that politicians are liars BUT we still let them rule?
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Comment #15 posted by Rainbow on August 26, 2006 at 10:34:30 PT
Advertising
Basically as I have said before and will continue to say to our congresscritters and law enforcement this has been the best marketing campaign I have seen in ages. They have advertised these drugs especially the widely used cannabis to bolster their money needs and livelyhoods. Yes at many innocent people demise.I equate this to the massive Public Works Campaign in the depression era, except we are still reaping the benefts of the WPC.I also wonder if the Amnesity International will ever be able to comment on this War on some USA people.Righht on governmunt.Rainbow
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Comment #14 posted by Bhicks on August 26, 2006 at 09:05:44 PT:
Funny
Walters wrote. "This is one reason why the 'Truth' anti-tobacco advertising campaign, acclaimed as a successful initiative in view of the significant declines we've seen in teen smoking, did not claim to prove a causal relationship between campaign exposure and smoking outcomes, reporting instead that the campaign was associated with substantial declines in youth smoking."
---Tobacco is legal. Take a hint shit-for-brains.
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Comment #13 posted by FoM on August 26, 2006 at 06:15:55 PT
Thanks You DankHank
I have it posted now. http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread22103.shtml
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Comment #12 posted by charmed quark on August 26, 2006 at 05:12:56 PT
Dankhank - great article on the Netherlands
Observing the US drug war since the early 1970s, I agree that drug laws make very little difference in drug use.I particuarly liked the statement:
"The bad news is that the occasional drug fad get hyped into a crisis that leads to bad laws". Who can forget pregnant women getting drug tested for cocaine, some getting thrown into jail because of the fake "crack baby" insanity. All this did was keep the women most at risk from getting prenatal care, increasing any negative effects on the children.Whenever I hearm the drug warriors cry "what about the children", I think the same thing. If drug laws have very little impact on dangerous drug usage, then it is the children who are hurt most by these useless drug laws. Thier parents and relatives get thrown in jail, the family assets confiscated and the kids thrown into the often ungentle arms of the foster care system.Also, I feel that the propaganda we generate often FANS the drug fads. You take a drug that is obscure to most of the US and start advertising it relentlessly through the media and drug warnings and pretty soon even elementary kids in rural Kansas are curious about it.We should be practicing harm reduction like the Dutch. Most drugs are NOT legal there. Even pot is only quasi-legal ( although I think this is mostly due to pressure from Europe and the USA - they should fully legalize it). They simply try to figure out what the drugs are doing and how best, from a public health point of view, to reduce the harm to society. It might be free needles, or information about avoiding AIDS, or making drugs available to prevent overdoses.Way too rational for this country!
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Comment #11 posted by mayan on August 26, 2006 at 04:54:31 PT
FAILURES
Thanks for posting that Amsterdam article, Dankhank. That article along with this news regarding the GAO probe of the ONDCP is pretty damning of those who support the war on cannabis. A BILLION DOLLARS DOWN THE DRAIN!!! Shouldn't those folks be fired? Oh yeah, this system rewards failure. No wonder the U.S. is going to hell. If those at the ONDCP want to be complete failures that's their business but they should not be able to use our money! THE WAY OUT IS THE WAY IN...Dear Democracy Now!
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/august2006/260806democracy.htmPopular Mechanics invited to the National 9/11 Debate:
http://infowars.net/articles/August2006/250806Mechanics.htmPopular Mechanics in full retreat on Charles Goyette Show:
http://www.911blogger.com/node/2278HOW SEPTEMBER 11th REALLY HAPPENED:
http://conniescomments.blogspot.com/SEPTEMBER 11 REVISITED (video):
http://www.911revisited.com/video.html
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Comment #10 posted by Toker00 on August 26, 2006 at 03:41:47 PT
Had Enough
Every time I look in my rear view mirror, I see your name. lol! I have a sticker on the rear window of my truck that says Had enough? Vote democrat in '06! AAHHHH. I just love the smell of Cannapalm in the morning! That's it! We will build cannabombs! We will drop these Bud Laden bombs on the Neo-cons, ending their earthly reign of Terror! Our cannabombs will pierce even the hardest, coldest hearts and skulls. They can run from the Truth, but they'll not be able to hide any longer in their Bunkers of Deception! Operation Enduring Truth! Let's Rock!Wage peace on war. END CANNABIS PROHIBITION NOW! 
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Comment #9 posted by whig on August 25, 2006 at 22:25:50 PT
Had Enough
Great term. Prohibians and Consumans. People who steal liberty and people who don't care.
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Comment #8 posted by Dankhank on August 25, 2006 at 22:09:46 PT
Don't tell anyone ... :-)
August 26, 2006
Op-Ed Columnist
The Czars’ Reefer Madness
By JOHN TIERNEYAMSTERDAMArjan Roskam, the creator of the award-winning marijuana blend named “Arjan’s Haze,” has dozens of pictures of celebrity visitors on the wall of his coffee shop in Amsterdam. He’s got Eminem, Lenny Kravitz, Alicia Keys, Mike Tyson — but so far, unfortunately, not a single White House drug czar.The czars have preferred to criticize from afar. In the past, they’ve called Dutch drug policy “an unmitigated disaster,” bemoaning Amsterdam’s “stoned zombies” and its streets cluttered with “junkies.” Anti-pot passion has only increased in the Bush administration, which has made it a priority to combat marijuana.More than half a million Americans are arrested annually for possessing it. The Bush administration can’t even abide it being used for medical purposes by the terminally ill. Why risk having any of it fall into the hands of young people who could turn into potheads, crack addicts and junkies?But if America’s drug warriors came here, they would learn something even if they didn’t sample any of the dozens of varieties of marijuana sold legally in specially licensed coffee shops. They could see that the patrons puffing on joints generally don’t look any more zombielike than the crowd at an American bar — or, for that matter, a Congressional subcommittee listening to a lecture on the evils of marijuana.And if they talked to Peter Cohen, a Dutch researcher who has been studying drug use for a quarter-century, they would discover something even more disorienting. Even though marijuana has been widely available since the 1970’s, enough to corrupt a couple of generations, the Netherlands has not succumbed to reefer madness.The Dutch generally use drugs less than Americans do, according to national surveys in both countries (and these surveys might understate Americans’ drug usage, since respondents are less likely to admit illegal behavior). More Americans than Dutch reported having tried marijuana, cocaine and heroin. Among teenagers who’d tried marijuana, Americans were more likely to be regular users.In a comparison of Amsterdam with another liberal port city, San Francisco, Cohen and other researchers found that people in San Francisco were nearly twice as likely to have tried marijuana. Cohen isn’t sure exactly what cultural and economic factors account for the different usage patterns in America and the Netherlands, but he’s confident he can rule out one explanation.“Drug policy is irrelevant,” says Cohen, the former director of the Center for Drug Research at the University of Amsterdam. It’s quite logical, he says, to theorize that outlawing drugs would have an impact, but experience shows otherwise, both in America and in some European countries with stricter laws than the Netherlands but no less drug use.The good news about drugs, Cohen says, is that the differences among countries aren’t all that important — levels of addiction are generally low in America as well as in Europe. The bad news is that the occasional drug fad get hyped into a crisis that leads to bad laws.“Prohibition does not reduce drug use, but it does have other impacts,” he says. “It takes up an enormous amount of police time and generates large possibilities for criminal income.”In the Netherlands, that income goes instead to coffee-shop owners and to the government, which exacts heavy taxes. It also imposes strict regulations on what goes on in the coffee shop, including who can be served (no minors) and how much can be sold (five grams to a customer). Any unruly behavior or public disturbances can quickly close down a shop.To avoid problems at the Green House, Roskam has closed-circuit cameras and a staff that urges novices to stick with small doses, and to protect their lungs by taking hits from a vaporizer. Unlike street buyers in America, customers know exactly what strength they’re getting, which is especially useful for the hundreds of people with multiple sclerosis and other ailments who use his marijuana medicinally.Roskam sneers at the street products in the United States, which he considers overpriced and badly blended. But he acknowledges there’s one feature in the American market he can’t compete with.“Drugs are just less interesting here,” he said. “One of my best friends here never smoked cannabis, never wanted to even try my products. Then when she was 32 she went to America on holiday and smoked for the first time. I asked her why, and she said: ‘It was more fun over there. It was illegal.’ ”
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Comment #7 posted by FoM on August 25, 2006 at 21:23:24 PT
Brazilian Drug Users Won't Face Jail
August 25, 2006 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Drug users who don't engage in dealing will no longer be sent to prison under a new drug law now in effect across Brazil, officials said Friday.The law, which went into force this week, no longer calls for the imprisonment of people caught with small quantities of narcotics for personal use. Instead, they will be subject them to alternative penalties such as community service and could be required to undergo drug treatment, the justice ministry's press office said.National Anti-drug Secretary Paulo Roberto Uchoa told reporters in Brasilia, the nation's capital, that thanks to the new law drug users will no longer be "persecuted by society."The law does not, however, specify how much is a "small quantity" leaving that up to the discretion of police and judges.If police arrest someone in possession of drugs for personal use, they will now only be required to sign an agreement to report for sentencing at a future date, before being freed.Cocaine and marijuana use is fairly widespread in many Brazilian cities where drug gangs rule the hillside shantytowns and frequently battle for control of lucrative dealing spots. Copyright: 2006 The Associated Presshttp://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060825/API/608251010
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Comment #6 posted by FoM on August 25, 2006 at 21:02:12 PT
A Big Request
If anyone has a paid subscription to the New York Times and can get this article please post it so I can post it on CNews. Thanks for any help.***The Czars’ Reefer MadnessBy JOHN TIERNEYPublished: August 26, 2006If America’s drug warriors ever came Arjan Roskam’s coffee shop in Amsterdam, they would learn something about sound drug policy.http://select.nytimes.com/2006/08/26/opinion/26tierney.html
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Comment #5 posted by FoM on August 25, 2006 at 20:31:58 PT
Had Enough 
I love that song.And the sign said "Long-haired freaky people need not apply"So I tucked my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him whyHe said "You look like a fine upstanding young man, I think you'll do"So I took off my hat, I said "Imagine that. Huh! Me workin' for you!"Whoa-oh-ohSigns: http://youtube.com/watch?v=4DrTTg97MhE
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Comment #4 posted by Had Enough on August 25, 2006 at 20:19:11 PT
Products of Sorcery and Deception!!!
Toker00“You know, all the PTB want us to do is "Consume". They've cut off our humanity and sewn on, in it's place, a portal that they fill with their products of sorcery and deception, in exchange for our hard earned wealth. Consumers. Humans forced to consume. CONSUMANS.You Got It!!!
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Comment #3 posted by Toker00 on August 25, 2006 at 19:45:56 PT
Ineffective
Not, "Needs work", "Needs strengthening", "Needs a boost". Nope. Straight out completely and undeniably "INEFFECTIVE". That goes for the entire effort of this Insane War on Some Drugs. It has no effect on the people who choose to use drugs, other than to destroy their lives when caught. How is that helping them? The drugs seldom, if ever for most users, do anywhere near the damage prohibition does to these human beings. They (we) aren't druggies, losers, dopers, or any of those names. They (we) are human beings and deserve to be treated as such. NOT like caged animals!  You know, all the PTB want us to do is "Consume". They've cut off our humanity and sewn on, in it's place, a portal that they fill with their products of sorcery and deception, in exchange for our hard earned wealth. Consumers. Humans forced to consume. CONSUMANS.Hey, Dankhank! Nice DVD insert. Spooky, but appropriate. Thanks for number three. :)Wage peace on war. END CANNABIS PROHIBITION NOW!  
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Comment #2 posted by Had Enough on August 25, 2006 at 18:37:04 PT
SAM you’re some kinda sinner!!!
Five Man Electical Band*************And the sign said "Long-haired freaky people need not apply"So I tucked my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him whyHe said "You look like a fine upstanding young man, I think you'll do"So I took off my hat, I said "Imagine that. Huh! Me workin' for you!"Whoa-oh-oh**Sign, sign, everywhere a signBlockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mindDo this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?**And the sign said anybody caught trespassin' would be shot on sightSo I jumped on the fence and-a yelled at the house, "Hey! What gives you the
right?""To put up a fence to keep me out or to keep mother nature in""If God was here he'd tell you to your face, Man, you're some kinda sinner"
**Sign, sign, everywhere a signBlockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mindDo this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?**Now, hey you, mister, can't you read?You've got to have a shirt and tie to get a seatYou can't even watch, no you can't eatYou ain't supposed to be hereThe sign said you got to have a membership card to get insideUgh!**[Lead Guitar]**And the sign said, "Everybody welcome. Come in, kneel down and pray"But when they passed around the plate at the end of it all, I didn't have a
penny to paySo I got me a pen and a paper and I made up my own little signI said, "Thank you, Lord, for thinkin' 'bout me. I'm alive and doin' fine."
Wooo!**Sign, sign, everywhere a signBlockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mindDo this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?**Sign, sign, everywhere a signSign, Sign, sign
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Comment #1 posted by Had Enough on August 25, 2006 at 16:21:41 PT
You waste my coin, SAM all you can
Don't Step On The Grass SAM
by John Kay*******Staring at the boob tubeTurning up the big nobTrying to find life in the wastelandSearching for a programGonna deal with mary janeReady for a trip to the head landObnoxious Joe comes on the screenAlong with his guest self-rightous SAMSome old guy who doesn't countHis hair and clothes are much to outPushin' back his glasses SAM saysHe was elected by the massesWith that in mindHe starts to unwindA viscous attack upon the grassesIt's mean and evil, wicked and nastyDon't step on the grass, SAMIt will ruin our fair countryDon't be such an ass, SAMIt will hook your sons and daughtersYour so full of shit, SAMAll will pay who disagree with meDisinformation Joe and SAMFeedin' it to the nationBut the one that didn't countCounted'em outExposing all their false quotationsFaced by an awkward situationIt's all they had to save the dayIt's mean and evil, wicked and nastyDon't step on the grass, SAMIt will ruin our fair countryDon't be such an ass, SAMIt will hook your sons and daughtersYour so full of shit, SAMAll will pay who disagree with mePlease give up you already lost the fight alrightYou waste my coin, SAM all you canTo jail my fellow manFor smokin' of the noble weedYou need much more than himYouv'e been telling lies so longSome believe they're trueSo they close there eyes to thingsThey have no right to doJust as soon as you are goneHope will start to climbPlease don't wait around to longYour wastin' prescious timeIt's mean and evil, wicked and nastyDon't step on the grass, SAMIt will ruin our fair countryDon't be such an ass, SAMIt will hook your sons and daughtersYour so full of shit, SAMAll will pay who disagree with mePlease give up you already lost the fight alright
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