The Libertarian Party paid for a controversial full-page advertisement in Tuesday's editions of USA Today and the Washington Times that parodied a series of advertisements sponsored by the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

One prominent ONDCP advertisement features a blown-up image of a solemn-looking teenager's face with the words, "Last weekend, I washed my car, hung out with a few friends, and helped murder a family in Colombia. C'mon, it was a party."

The bottom of the ad says buying drugs helps support terrorists who rely on drug money to fund their terrorist operations.

The Libertarian Party parody featured a blown-up image of the face of John Walter, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

The image is coupled with the words, "This week, I had lunch with the president, testified before Congress, and helped funnel $40 million in illegal drug money to groups like the Taliban."

The Libertarians say it is not drugs that funnel money to terrorists, it is the war on drugs.

The bottom of their ad said the war on drugs boosts the price of illegal drugs by as much as 17,000 percent, which in turn funnels huge profits to terrorist organizations.

Tom Riley, ONDCP spokesman, said he thought the Libertarian Party's ad would have "been more clever and zingy."

Riley also said legalizing drugs such as heroin is more of a bar room policy than a worthwhile political agenda.

Students and faculty around campus had mixed feelings about the Libertarians' ad.

"The cigarette money and alcohol money certainly aren't funneling money to terrorists," said Julian Heicklen, professor emeritus and Libertarian activist.

"The war on drugs is a ludicrous campaign."

Penn State College Libertarians President Paolo Sica said the war on drugs is a needless expenditure of tax dollars that most taxpayers do not support.

"The ad was really beautiful and will make people think," Sica said. "This ad should really make the fur fly in Washington."

Jeremy Packer, assistant professor of communications, had similar feelings about the Libertarian ad.

"The ad points out the insincerity of the 'just say no' campaign," he said.

Packer said the connections in the drug trade are too complicated to point a finger at drug users and say, "You support terrorists."

"We wanted to express disapproval with the war on drugs campaign and to point out the inaccuracies of the Drug Czar's ads," Libertarian Party spokesman Bill Winter said.

With such a provocative ad, Winter said, "We needed to be 100 percent sure that we could back our claim, and who better to get the information than the federal government."

The statistics in the Libertarian ad came from federal reports.

Riley said he disagreed with some of the Libertarian claims.

"The last I saw, the percent of Americans who wanted heroin legalized was well below 5 percent," Riley said.

Riley said the point of the government ads is to get drug users to think about the consequences of their actions.

Past anti-drug ads focused on the problems facing the individual user, while failing to point out how a user's actions might negatively affect others.

While the Libertarian Party claims the war on drugs funds terrorists, some others did not agree with the ad or the philosophy behind it.

"I personally don't support legalization," said Jason Davidek, vice chair of the Penn State College Republicans. "Education is a better way for us to go."

Riley said the Libertarian campaign takes an "extremely fringe view."

"If heroin and other highly addictive drugs were legalized, then you would have more addicts," Riley said. "A lot more addicts would mean greater demand, which would still create a black market for these drugs."