Your tax dollars at work:

The effectiveness of government-produced ads in curtailing drug use has long been a matter of debate. At the start of its media campaign in 1998, the ONDCP hired Westat, a firm that specializes in research for government, to gauge whether the advertisements were decreasing drug use among youth. Westat analyzed parents' and teenagers' responses to the ads and concluded that the messages did not lead young people to disapprove of drug use. In fact, researchers concluded the opposite, finding that in some cases the ads increased first-time marijuana use.
Westat released the results to the White House office in 2004. But the report went no further for a year and a half, until the Government Accountability Office demanded its release in August 2006. According to John Carnevale, the former director of budget and planning for the ONDCP, the office did not like the report's conclusions and chose to sit on it -- even though Congress had appropriated $1.2 billion between 1998 and 2004 for the ONDCP's media campaign, according to GAO data. [emphasis added]

How much you want to bet a lot of those advertisers are donors to the Republican party?

Anyway, I still remember the new drug ads (cause we can't really call 'em anti-drug ads, now can we?) that came out right after Bush assumed power. "Pot. It turns out it was more dangerous than we all thought" or something to that effect. Ah, yes- telling kids something is more dangerous is a really good way to convince them to rush out and try it even faster than if they'd just handled one of mom's joints tucked up in her underwear drawer.

Meanwhile, today's tax dollars are spent reminding kids that marijuana is not a plant.