“It’d be better if I had cancer”

“It’d be better if I had cancer, then you wouldn’t tell me what I’m going through is just a phase…You wouldn’t see my condition as a lack of willpower, but the disease that it truly is.”

So begins one of the new public service announcements from the Partnership for a Drug-Free America—the geniuses who brought you “This is your brain on drugs.” They also have apparent drug addicts claiming they’d be better off with diabetes and AIDS.

I wonder how people with cancer, diabetes, or AIDS feel about that? Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure that—unlike drug users—people with cancer can’t just decide to stop having so much cancer.

Strangely, they missed the one actual advantage of cancer, diabetes, and AIDS: No jail time.

(Hat tip: Hit & Run)