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{{Short description|2007 anti-cannabis public service announcement}}
'''"Dog's View"''', also called "Talking Dog", is a 2007 anti-cannabis [[public service announcement]] (PSA) created by the United States [[Office of National Drug Control Policy]] (ONDCP) as part of the [[Above the Influence]] campaign. The PSA features a dog who sits down at a kitchen counter and asks a teenage girl if she might be smoking too much marijuana. It was one of several ONDCP PSAs shown to increase cannabis consumption in teens.{{sfn|Fishbein|Hall-Jamieson|Zimmer|von Haeften|2002}} It has been the subject of numerous parodies and critiques, including a [[Joe Rogan]] stand-up routine, and a 2008 parody featuring [[Aubrey Plaza]] who resembles the actress in the original.<ref name=KYM>{{citation|website=[[Know Your Meme]]|title=Above the Influence Talking Dog PSA|author=Don Caldwell|url=https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/above-the-influence-talking-dog-psa}}</ref> The original PSA acquired over 1.1 million views on YouTube between its upload in 2008 and 2017.<ref name=KYM/> In 2011, ''[[Adweek]]'' profiled the PSA as one of ten that "make you want to take drugs".<ref>{{citation|title=Anti-Drug Ads That Make You Want to Take Drugs|author=Rebecca Cullers|date=April 29, 2011|work=Adweek|url=https://www.adweek.com/creativity/10-anti-drug-ads-make-you-want-take-drugs-131158/}}</ref> In 2018, it was ranked by ''[[High Times]]'' as one of the top six worst anti-cannabis ads, "hilariously inaccurate".<ref>{{citation|work=High Times|title=The 6 Most Ridiculous Anti-Weed PSAs|date=April 3, 2018 |author=Samantha Cashin|url=https://hightimes.com/culture/most-ridiculous-anti-weed-psas/2/}}</ref>
==Further reading==
*{{Section link|National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign|Effects}}
==References==
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===Sources===
* {{citation|journal= American Journal of Public Health |date=February 2002|title=Avoiding the Boomerang: Testing the Relative Effectiveness of Antidrug Public Service Announcements Before a National Campaign|first1=Martin |last1=Fishbein|first2=Kathleen |last2=Hall-Jamieson|first3=Eric|last3=Zimmer|first4=Ina |last4=von Haeften|first5=Robin|last5= Nabi|doi=10.2105/AJPH.92.2.238|pmc=1447050 |pmid=11818299 |volume=92 |issue=2 |pages=238–45}}
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