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Canada’s Charming PSAs About Getting ‘Barely High’ Won’t Judge You. Just Don’t Drive

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Geekz Snow
Canada’s Charming PSAs About Getting ‘Barely High’ Won’t Judge You. Just Don’t Drive

There’s a big difference in how it feels to be stoned out of your mind versus just “barely high,” but a new PSA campaign out of Ontario wants to remind cannabis fans that any level of buzz is enough to make you an unsafe driver.

Created by McCann Worldgroup Canada for the government of Ontario, the “Barely High Is Still Too High to Drive” campaign features brief, surprisingly charming vignettes about everyday people getting just a bit high.

Through voice-overs, they describe the differences between how they act when fully lit compared to when they’re “barely high.”

While the ads don’t judge people for their half-baked peculiarities, they do make it clear that any of these scenarios would be signs that you’re too high to drive.

The agency based the campaign on Ontario government research into perceptions of cannabis use, and then McCann supplemented the data with its own field research and focus groups featuring a key demographic: Canadian millennials.

“The idea that being a little stoned and getting behind the wheel is OK is both pervasive and untrue,” says Josh Stein, executive creative director at McCann Toronto.

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