“Hey, Kids. Drugs aren’t cool.”  

The Bush administration is taking its fight against illegal drugs to YouTube, the trendy Internet video service that already features clips of wacky, drug-induced behavior and step-by-step instructions for growing marijuana plants.

The decision to distribute anti-drug, public service announcements and other videos over YouTube represents the first concerted effort by the U.S. government to influence customers of the popular service, which shows more than 100 million videos per day.

If just one teen sees this and decides illegal drug use is not the path for them, it will be a success,” said Rafael Lemaitre, a spokesman for the drug office.

Um…. I guess that’s possible. More likely, however, is that kids will stumble across the videos while looking for the singing dog video, laugh at how stupidly out of touch the makers of the video are, then go light one up so the singing dog looks like it’s actually in the same room with them.

Nice work, government. Way to connect with today’s youth. No doubt they’ll find it really “groovy”, daddio.