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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolfspider" data-source="post: 202337" data-attributes="member: 300">Actually, BTVS tried this approach in the episode "Beer Bad" a couple years back, but it was rejected by the government and thus the show received none of this funding:"At least one show, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' was rejected after it showed itself to be immune to the drug office's worldview. 'Drugs were an issue, but it wasn't on-strategy. It was otherworldly nonsense, very abstract and not like real-life kids taking drugs. Viewers wouldn't make the link to our message,' says someone in the drug-policy office camp who read and helped reject it."(from the Salon.com article <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/13/drugs/" target="_blank">"Prime Time Propaganda"</a>)I assume that Willow's magical addiction would be viewed as being similar "otherworldly nonesense."</blockquote>