During last Sunday's Super Bowl, the president's Office of National Drug Control Policy aired the first two commercials of a new ad campaign linking drug use with terrorism. The ads, aimed at teen-agers, are meant to capitalize on the kids' growing sense of political awareness. Their message is simple: If you buy drugs, you might be financing terrorists.

But, as is often the case, the simple message masks a more complicated reality. The administration acknowledges that teen-age potheads aren't terrorists. But the ad campaign is pretty clear when it comes to what those little tokers are doing - they're helping to finance terrorism, kill judges, murder families and torture people.

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