Darrin Harris Frisby/Drug Policy Alliance
In celebration of 4/20 today, the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) is encouraging media outlets to use these stock images of people enjoying marijuana instead of the usual hippie–dippie photos we always see.
Media outlets continue to use stereotypical “stoner” images for otherwise serious news stories about marijuana. The Drug Policy Alliance is offering an alternative: stock photos of real, everyday people who use marijuana.
These photos are open license and free to use for non-commercial editorial purposes, and we hope they will help make the jobs of editors easier and the content more relevant.
While some of photos are a bit comical (I really dig the Jenga one! It’s perfect. No one would ever play Jenga unless they were stoned!) I get where DPA is coming from. It is highly annoying that the media keeps depicting every marijuana user as some sort of Burning Man, hacky sack-playing idiot with an IQ of 80.
Darrin Harris Frisby/Drug Policy Alliance
Darrin Harris Frisby/Drug Policy Alliance
Darrin Harris Frisby/Drug Policy Alliance
Darrin Harris Frisby/Drug Policy Alliance
Darrin Harris Frisby/Drug Policy Alliance
Darrin Harris Frisby/Drug Policy Alliance
Darrin Harris Frisby/Drug Policy Alliance
Darrin Harris Frisby/Drug Policy Alliance
Darrin Harris Frisby/Drug Policy Alliance
Darrin Harris Frisby/Drug Policy Alliance
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