---
title: "This Navy Anti-Marijuana PSA Is A Great Reminder Of How Uncool Navy Is, Bro"
date: "2018-10-31"
modified: "2018-10-31"
authors:
  - name: "Jared Keller"
    job_title: "Former Managing Editor"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/jaredkeller/"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-marijuana-psa-satire/"
categories:
  - "Culture"
  - "Mandatory Fun"
---

# This Navy Anti-Marijuana PSA Is A Great Reminder Of How Uncool Navy Is, Bro

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/18990937-1.jpg>)

Take a look at this brief Navy anti-drug PSA. It's 60 seconds of your life well-wasted.

Produced by the Navy Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention office and published on Halloween, this business-casual ISIS hostage video explains how the wave of marijuana legalization measures [cresting](<https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/10/08/americans-support-marijuana-legalization/>) across the country may affect Navy personnel.

The message is simple: federal law and Navy policy prohibit marijuana consumption, no matter where you happen to be in the United States.

The real message is far simpler: Look how deeply uncool we are.

Here are the takeaways that I, a civilian and pothead, gleaned from this video.

1. Here's a giant map of states where pot is legal, just in case you needed a reminder on where you can blaze with relative impunity.

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-183.gif>)

2. "A spouse caught with marijuana on a military installation could be barred from coming on base" seems like a great reminder that a well-placed doobie could keep your spouse from bugging you at work.

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-184.gif>)

3. "Marijuana can really mess things up for a Navy family!" "And a Navy career!" This is actually true, if dumb, considering that the service has, like the Army, increasingly [embraced drug waivers](<https://www.npr.org/2018/01/16/578422469/how-active-duty-military-are-navigating-changing-attitudes-toward-marijuana>) to fill its ranks.

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-185.gif>)

Am I stoned, or is this the funniest PSA I've ever seen?

If anything it's a great reminder that the Canadian military may be chill as hell, but the U.S. armed forces still don't know how to talk about marijuana without sounding like total goons.

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## Author
Jared Keller is the former managing editor of Task & Purpose. His writing has appeared in Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New Republic, Pacific Standard, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post, among other publications.

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