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Click HERE to Sign the Petition!
Since
1992, MTV has produced and aired programs like "The Real World," which
feature young people consuming large quantities of alcohol and then
engaging in reckless, violent, destructive, and oftentimes illegal
behavior. Yet it has never once shown a cast member consuming
marijuana, which the network almost surely prohibits and undoubtedly
discourages.
In
the real world, millions of people use marijuana and every objective
study on it has concluded it is far safer than alcohol for them and
society. Yet in "The Real World" and other reality shows like "Jersey
Shore," MTV makes sure alcohol is always available in abundance -- and
that cast members never make the safer choice to use marijuana instead.
Please CLICK HERE or visit http://tinyurl.com/y8elkmn
and take just a few seconds to sign SAFER's on-line petition calling on
MTV to stop driving its cast members to drink and "start getting real."
Recently,
things have gotten more out of control than ever. On this week's
episode of "The Real World," an extremely drunken cast member shoved
another off the tall ledge of the staircase outside their house,
resulting in him being taken away on a backboard by paramedics.
And just a couple a months ago MTV's new reality show, "Jersey
Shore," received worldwide attention when a drunken young man at a bar
punched one of the female cast members hard in the face after she
accused him of stealing some drinks purchased by a fellow castmate.
You can help us draw much-needed attention to MTV's dangerous "alcohol only" reality programming by clicking HERE or visiting http://tinyurl.com/y8elkmn, and taking just a few seconds to sign: A petition in support of SAFER MTV programming
Future
cast members of "The Real World," "Jersey Shore," and other MTV reality
shows should be allowed to use marijuana as a safer recreational
alternative to alcohol.
In the real world, millions of adults enjoy using marijuana
responsibly, and every objective study on it has concluded it is far
safer than alcohol both for them and society. Yet MTV embraces -- and
often encourages -- the use of alcohol by its cast members, and it
prohibits them from making the rational choice to use a less harmful
substance instead.
"The Real World," "Jersey Shore," and MTV's other reality shows should
stop driving cast members to drink and "start getting real." |
Millions of reality show addicts around the nation are on the edges of their couches today waiting to learn the fate of Real World
castmate Andrew, who was pushed off what looked like a fifteen-foot
high wall onto the pavement below by a drunken housemate, Ty, at the
end of last week’s episode. Fortunately, we can assume from a few
previews of the season, as well as the lack of media reports, that
Andrew did not actually die as the result of this fall. But that
outcome is due more to luck than any precautions taken by the show’s
producers. In fact, their role in his injury could almost be
characterized as contributory negligence.
