I love this 'Don't Drive High' ad.

[feng_shui_house]

It's a wonderful parody of slasher films.

https://musebycl.io/cannabis/slasher-parody-psa-warns-horrors-driving-high

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[vera_j]

Well,unfortunately, the thing would not open. Some stupid "not US" restrictions!
How are you doing?

[feng_shui_house]

Aw, what a pity. It was really well done. Ok, here, I've described it.

Video is just under one and half minutes. I couldn't find a text for it, so I played, listened, typed, paused, backed up to get bits, etc. to make a transcript.

Title of the ad:

'You can run, but you can't drive high'

It's night, with a misty fog, scrubby trees in the background, the only light comes dimly from two small windows and a window at the top of the door in a small, shabby, wooden house. A door opens in the house. Two young men leap out and run. An ax carrying man wearing a burlap hood with grotesque features stitched and smudged on it follows them, slowly but steadily.

The first man gets out of scene, but the second man stumbles and falls face down on a dirt path. He says, "Multiple studies have shown that marijuana can slow both driver reaction and response time."

He rolls over, just barely avoiding the ax.

"Which can be really dangerous," he says as he scrambles to his feet and runs.

Owl hoots. Cut to the same young man with his back pressed against the tree, in the background the ax wielder is approaching, while the young man talks.

He says, in a hoarse, terrified, whisper, "Marijuana use also impairs attention related to multiple features..." The ax drives into the tree above his head. Young man screams, duck and runs.

He runs and collides with his friend. He sees a lit 'Gas' sign. "Look," he gasps, and pauses, bent over to catch his breath while his friend runs towards the sign. He says, "That means marijuana impairs the skills connected with the safe driving of a vehicle."

He follows his friend to the gas station and they pound on the locked glass doors of the building (view from inside looking at them as they shout 'HEY, Is anyone in there?'). It's dimly red-lit and the sign from this side reads OPEN-, the ax guy is coming in the distance. They go around and pound on another window, 'HEY'.

Inside the station an old guy is puttering around with loud music playing, he shakes his head and moves away. They never saw him.

They turn away from the window and our hero says "Hey" to get his friend's attention. He sees a red pickup truck. They run and get in the truck with our narrator on the driver's side. The narrator's friend looks out the back window and sees the calmly approaching ax guy. "He's here! He's here! He's here! HURRY! HURRY!" while our hero frantically looks for the car keys.

Hero lets out a scream of success when he finds the keys above the visor, and he puts it in the ignition. Then he stops and stares at his friend, wide-eyed. "I can't drive."

"Why?

"I'm high."

And the friend is... "Oh." Then he makes a finger twirling 'let's switch' motion, and they leap out of the car and exchange places.

Ax guy is pausing to watch them, head tilted to one side in puzzlement.

Sober friend turns the ignition, car headlights come on, and he laughs in hysterical relief, and they drive off.

*music plays and singing 'But you can't drive high'*

Ax guy stumbles a few steps after them, pauses, and then gives up and turns away.

Red letters appear:

FRIENDLY REMINDER

white letters underneath

If you feel different, you drive different.

[vera_j]

Oh! Thank you very much for your VERY impressive script of this story! Hahaha, it must really be very good. And you are very good at colourful description of the plot, action and those great details.

[feng_shui_house]

Thanks! It was a really great Public Safety Announcement. Would be fun if someone nominated it for a Yuletide story. :^)