Government Fights War on Drugs With Blogs, Podcasts and YouTube

Posted on September 20, 2006

The Associated Press reports (on Newsvine) that the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has set up a channel on YouTube. They are also uploading videos to YouTube with tags like "war on drugs," "peer-pressure," "marijuana," "weed," "ONDCP" and "420." The Associated Press calls the channel, "the first concerted effort by the U.S. government to influence customers of the popular service, which shows more than 100 million videos per day." The ONDCP channel was launched with a post on their Pushing Back blog.

The ONDCP also provides a podcast. Another way to fight the war on drugs would be to destroy the poppy fields growing on Afghanistan. Apparently, they just had a record poppy harvest. CNN's Anderson Cooper blogs that Afghanistan's poppy fields supply about 90% of the world's opium and that the Taliban are "responsible for a growing number of poppy fields."