There's something fun about old 80's drug PSA's. Seeing He-Man warn the kiddies at home about performance enhancing drugs, or G.I. Joe making sure we just say no. Cartoon All Stars To The Rescue showed us that anyone can beat drug addiction as long as they have a Garfield lamp and ALF lunchbox handy. But those didn't tell us the TRUE story of what it's like to be "WASTED". I had the fortune recently to stumble upon a Drug PSA that claims to be a true story of a real former pot addict who almost had his life destroyed by his addiction. Despite being mostly comprised of animated segments, this PSA is being pitched to it's audience as 100% legitimate spring fresh truth. Let's see just how much they live up to that promise, shall we?
1983's "Wasted: A True Story" (or is it?)
0:00 -0:05
The upload of this PSA on youtube starts with a logo for some forgotten old forum. Be a dear and give them the +9 website views they deserve. After all, it couldn't have been easy for uploader "L33T Guy" to upload this in between his grueling schedule of epix haxxoring.
We start off with footage of a bunch of kids playing a game of soccer and within 8 seconds we're introduced to the doped up dope we'll be following for the rest of the runtime. He looks like if Ringo had a even worse haircut.
0:08 -0:11
It's a long way back to nowhere from where I am today
In the park playing ball with the kiddies? I think I'd rather have the pot.
0:11 -0:14
It's hard to believe that not very long ago I lived my life for drugs
Even he knows he's a lousy actor
0:14 -0:22
"I was an addict. Not addicted to one thing, but to everything I could get my hands on."
So everything but some hair clippers?
And as you'll see throughout this cartoon, his 'addiction' really was just pot, gin, and the occasional cigarette. Considering he lived in a nice suburban neighborhood, that probably was all he could get his hands on. Still, it's no crystal meth or Angel Dust (the drug, not the fruity spider.)
0:28 -0:36
"A lot of people don't survive. But I was lucky. I survived. And today I live my life for me."
"That's right. I smoked....A JOINT. And lived to tell the tale. WHAT DO YOU MEAN I'M NOT A VICTIM???"- 
0:40- 0:42
"The first time I got high was 8 years old."
0:43 -0:46
reddit dramatic pause And this guy...he was a lot older than me.
Wait, you're telling me it wasn't a fellow 8 year old selling you weed? 
I'm shocked and appalled.
0:47 -0:49
And he turned me onto some pot.
I think I know another way he turned you on. 
0:51 -0:53
And from then on it was really downhill.
Former drug addict who was saved from the brink years ago still has braces 
1:05 -1:17
He was my brother he was my little brother and he was sweet and he was funny and he was real involved with his friends and sports and then one day he was different
1:17 -1:25
It's hard to watch someone you love destroy themselves and it's more hard to watch someone you love destroy themselves and pull everyone down with them
1:29 -1:37
When Tim started getting high and when his behavior changed and his attitude changed you know even his looks changed
I think you're describing "Puberty"
1:37 -1:43
His most intense-
-behavior was when he wasn't high
Welcome to Toon Town! Apparently weed turns you into a Mike Judge reject. Also there's no way she actually drew that.
1:43 -1:49
when he needed to get high we'd have to watch what we said around him he's like a time bomb you know
No, I don't know. How about you prattle on some more?
This is me when I don't have any dramacoins to blow at the casino. 
1:49 -2:00
and this time he went into the kitchen we were both in the kitchen and we were yelling at each other and the next thing I know he had a knife in his hand
2:00 - 2:17
2-17 -2:24
2:24 - 2:37
he chased me around the house and then I went to the bathroom I locked the door and I pulled all the all the drawers so they would block the door in case he you know use the knife to unlock it
Knocking the door really drained him of his energy. That's gotta be the second limpest pounding he's ever done. 
2:37 -2:52
I just sat down against the door and I just cried and I was shaking and I heard him throw the knife away I think at that point he realized what he was doing what his anger had brought him to do I think he totally freaked out
2:52 -2:54
It took a long time-
2:54 - 3:04
it took a long time for my mother and I to trust him again to really trust him again
he lost that. I loved him deep down inside because I was obligated to
he was my brother. but I didn't like him.
I hated him
3:04 -3:22
for what he was doing to us and himself
What, was he chasing himself with a knife too?
I hated him as a person because he was always...
WASTED
"Woah DUDE...that title drop got too REAL. But like, I'm not convinced yet. After all this could be a fake story-
"That settles it MAN, I don't wanna go stabbing my 4/10 sister BRO. I'm done with pot FOREVER."
...
"Thank god for the Hookah!"
Consider this all part 1. If there's interest in me covering the rest of the PSA I'll gladly do so but I figured it'd be good to see if anyone cared first before spending more time than I already had on it. In Part 2 we get to see the day to day habits of the weed smoker such as drinking gin, selling off priceless family heirlooms, and kicking puppies!
See you then kiddos! 
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