Driving on drugs? They'll see it in your eyes

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The U.K. this week launched its first-ever national ad campaign to stop people from driving on drugs. The centerpiece is the TV spot above, in which a pack of friends cruise around town, high on something or other, with their freaky big eyes evidently a dead giveaway for police. The ad's certainly memorable, even if it's exaggerated. (Only some drugs cause wildly dilated pupils, and nothing as cartoony as this, and the police would notice them only after a traffic stop, not from a distance.)

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