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Posted: **Sat 7th Feb 2009 12:46 pm**

A film company has offered a bag of potent cannabis as a prize to the person who finds a Willy Wonka-style golden ticket.

Revolver Entertainment is hoping the marketing technique will increase sales of The Wackness, starring Sir Ben Kingsley, which is released on DVD on Monday.

Hidden inside one of the DVD boxes is a ticket which entitles the "lucky winner" to a trip to Amsterdam, where they will collect their skunk.

Under the heading The Golden Ticket, the company said on its website: "Yes, you heard us correctly. We're offering the chance for you to win a fabulous weekend break for two to the city of smoke itself, the beautiful Amsterdam.

"But that's not all… the lucky winner will also be able to pick up a complimentary bag of skunk from legendary Amsterdam café Hill Street Blues."

It added: "Find the Golden Ticket and you win! It's that simple."

The film is about a troubled teenage drug dealer who trades cannabis for therapy sessions with a psychiatrist, played by Oscar winner Sir Ben.

But the PR stunt which accompanies the DVD release has been branded unacceptable by anti-drugs campaigners.

"We all want to see fewer people using cannabis, but the best way to achieve that is through health information," a spokesman for mental health charity Rethink said.

"It is unacceptable for cannabis use to be glamorised in any way."

Revolver defended the competition as something "that will brighten up people's lives" during the gloom of the global economic crisis.

"The Wackness is all about people coming together through a love of weed, and we are just celebrating that fact in a fun, light-hearted way with a free trip to Amsterdam, the most famous weed-smoking European city," the company told Sky News Online.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Showbi ... n_Kingsley

Posted: **Sat 7th Feb 2009 12:52 pm**

reminds me of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"

I wish the winner much fun

Posted: **Sat 7th Feb 2009 01:04 pm**

sh@dy wrote:reminds me of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
I wish the winner much fun

More like 'Charlie and the Chocolope Factory'!
Unfortunately, the winner doesn't ultimately get a huge cannabis factory.

Posted: **Sat 7th Feb 2009 03:43 pm**

this movie is already available in the states (rented it last week), so i guess this contest will be for the euro release???

Posted: **Sat 7th Feb 2009 05:22 pm**

It's quite a good movie this - the kiddie from Drake and Josh is good - set in mid 90's NY with a hip hop soundtrack

Be Kingsley is fun in this too.

Posted: **Sat 7th Feb 2009 07:02 pm**

codejd wrote:this movie is already available in the states (rented it last week), so i guess this contest will be for the euro release???

u can still enter!

no purchase nessacary!!

click on terms and conditions!!!!

Posted: **Sun 8th Feb 2009 12:17 am**

murphyscafe wrote:
codejd wrote:this movie is already available in the states (rented it last week), so i guess this contest will be for the euro release???
u can still enter!

no purchase nessacary!!

click on terms and conditions!!!!

a-ha! dank u wel

Posted: **Sun 8th Feb 2009 03:53 am**

don't know but i saved my pennies ready to get suckered into buying it just on the off chance

Posted: **Mon 9th Feb 2009 01:58 am**

From their web-site:

THE GOLDEN TICKET

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

1. The minimum age to enter this competition is 18. Both the Winner and their guest will need to be 18 on the dates of travel.

2. Employees of Revolver Entertainment and any company associated to the specific competition, and their families, are not eligible to enter the competition.

3. No purchase necessary. To enter the competition email competitions@revolvergroup.com with “Golden Ticket” in the subject box and we will open a DVD for you. You will be notified by email within 7 working days only if you are a Golden Ticket winner.

4. No responsibility can be accepted for entries that are lost or delayed.

5. Competition closes when the Golden Ticket prize has been claimed, or on 9th February 2010 (whichever occurs first).

6. Details of how to claim can be found on the Golden Ticket. The winner will be required to verify they are the ticket holder by bringing the Golden Ticket in person to the promoter’s address or by sending the Golden Ticket via a secure delivery method.

7. The judge's decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

8. The prize may not be transferred to any other person.

9. The prize consists of 2 return flights from a London airport (Stanstead, Gatwick or Luton), 2 nights accommodation for 2 people in Amsterdam, Holland and 1 gram of complimentary skunk to be collected by the winner from Hill Street Blues café, Amsterdam (full address available on request). Winner and guest must travel within 6 months of winning the competition but dates of travel exclude the following days: Bank holidays and Queen's Day. Winners must be responsible for their own transfers in Amsterdam, travel to and from the airport in the UK, travel insurance and any necessary Visa arrangements.

10. No cash alternative or alternative prize is available on entrants request but in the event of the advertised competition prize being unavailable we reserve the right to offer an alternative prize of equal or greater value.

11. Revolver Entertainment will not be liable for any damage, loss or disappointment suffered by any person taking part or not being able to take part in a competition.

12. Competition winners may be required to take part in or co-operate with publicity.

13. Competition winners agree to keep confidential any knowledge about Revolver Entertainment and its business and personnel received by them as a result of the competition.

14. Use of false name or address, i.e. name by which the entrant is not usually known, will disqualify them from receiving any prize.

15. We reserve the right to amend these rules at any time. Entry in the competition implies acceptance of these rules.

16. The promoter of the competition is Revolver Entertainment, PO Box 31643, London, W11 2XS, UK.

17. We will keep your personal details for a reasonable time so that we can send you any prize that you have won, to verify that these rules have been complied with, and for accounting purposes. We will not pass your details on to third parties for promotional or any other purpose.

18. Revolver Entertainment may at any time issue specific rules to be read in conjunction with these rules.

Unfortunately, from number 9, above....
The prize consists of 2 return flights from a London airport (Stanstead, Gatwick or Luton), 2 nights accommodation for 2 people in Amsterdam, so unless you are already in the UK, you will have to pay your fare to the UK, to get the flight from UK to Adam!! BUMMER!!

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