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Ah yes drugs are bad. Weed kills you, etc.
You find out weed doesn't do any of the shit they said it did... Now absolutely everything they claimed is called into question. Why would they lie about X but not about Y?
DARE did more to make people learn that police cannot be trusted apart from maybe their general violent tendencies.
I may be too european, but our one prez was about hard drugs! Half of it was about was a biology lesson about the nucleus accumbens and its deterioration! The other half was safety tips, apparently you can try every hard drug once with exemption to crystal meth without causing permanent damage! I didn’t know that until then, I would have probably never tried morphine once if not for that lesson…
Also didn’t the cia sell drugs? Maybe it really was an advertisement?
Weed not actually being dangerous.. when you find that out it's like leaving the Matrix
I mean, I would have appreciated some information about weed influencing my body and brain development before I am ~25. Then I might have waited that time or smoked less. Now I can only imagine if I might have become less of a scatterbrain. Instead I was told that all drugs are bad and they will make me addicted and push me to drug-related crimes, which did not turn out believable enough.
Are you sure you're not a scatterbrain from undiagnosed ADHD that you've been self-medicating with the weed?
You’re absolutely right. And if you try them yourself, unfortunately most drugs are really good, at first.
That's the problem with drugs, no?
When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.
I don't remember where I read it, but I think it summs it up perfectly.
DARE should have just told me that pot would just make me really sleepy and make me eat too much... causing an 8 lb weight gain overnight. That would have been enough. They should have avoided telling me anything about speed.
They taught us that drugs were evil and done by bad people. The first time I smoked pot, I realized I was lied to and wondered what other drugs were like.
I love two things about DARE:
Their mascot was an anthro lion.
They did more to get kids ON drugs than they did to get them OFF drugs.
And then there's former President George Bush, doing his part with Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue.
Totally made drugs more appealing.
I feel like Alf would do coke.
Catamine
I almost got killed on a police ride along. Wait, didn't love that part.
Story please
One of the DARE cops took me on a ride along. Dangerous domestic violence situations aside (he took me to the doors), just driving down a main street. He was of course speeding, and a car jumped the median coming head on. He made an amazing fishtail maneuver, spun the car around. He pulled them over into a parking lot. We sat for a minute while we both checked our shorts. We got out (still don't know why I was allowed out of the car). The driver tried to get out her car and fell on her face. Beyond drunk.
I've been in some life or death situations, but this was surely one of the closest.
They showed us a video like
Acid makes you see sounds and taste colors, and isn't addictive... But don't do it!
Before the video I absolutely had no desire to try acid, and after the video all I could think was like "what does a color taste like?!?!"
now I wanna try
Psychonaut with a couple of decades experience here: Acid can be excellent fun. For many years it was my favourite intoxicant. It definitely has a dark side to it tho.
If you are taking acid for the first time then you should do it with good friends and ideally have either a tripsitter (a sober friend who can help if things start to get a bit overwhelming) or someone who has taken it a few times before.
Do it in a safe space where you feel comfortable and is available for your use for the duration of the trip.
Be prepared for the long haul. A typical acid trip lasts around 8 hours and once you've dropped, there's no going back.
Have a playlist of music that makes you happy, and have your favourite feel-good movie on hand.
If you are feeling anxious or depressed DO NOT DO IT. Acid does not make you feel good like ecstasy or mdma or 2cb. If you are feeling shit it will make you feel 10x worse but if you are in a good place, with good friends, then it is amazing.
Thank you for listening to my head talk.
And told you to go home and ask your parents about their drug experiences.
My parents only ever said "Drugs are bad and evil, stay away from drugs, they are no laughing matter. Understand? Good. Now let's watch this Cheech and Chong movie."
Whaaaaat? You mean to tell me that the guys whose entire existence is justified by locking up poor people for drug use, whose "justice system" is just a front for legal slavery, ran an "anti" drug campaign that maybe wasn't super good? Almost like that was... the whole point?
What I always found funny later in life was they never said anything about DMT. It was like they didn't want us to be aware of DMT existing, even though it was discovered in the 30s, found naturally in the 40s, known hallucinogenic for hundreds or thousands of years, but only studied as a hallucinogen in the 50s.
DMT is a glorious hallucinogen that any psychonaut should pursue, it is easier to obtain than LSD and profoundly better with shorter lasting effects than LSD or mushrooms. You got an hour to spend and are willing to shatter reality? DMT can change your mind.
As an 80s kid who endured DARE since – what 1988? – I wanted to let everyone know that I read this post and comments while being high.
One of my buddies loves to wear his D.A.R.E. sweatshirt when he smokes.
I was 100% the target audience for DARE lol. I remember my classmates asking me what drugs I wanted to try from the lesson and I would be so confused because the way the officer spoke of the effects made taking them seem very scary to me.
I'm now a big pothead so maybe I'm not that much of an outlier.
Don’t go get free ebooks on safe platforms like libgen or annas-archive !!
"Studies published in the 1990s concluded that D.A.R.E. had little to no effectiveness in preventing drug use in elementary, middle, or high school students, and may actually lead to increased drug use." https://www.britannica.com/procon/DARE-Drug-Abuse-Resistance-Education-debate
Same thing as Christians and their anti-porn crusade. I got introduced to the concept of porn through church, lmao.
Drugs Are Really Excellent.
Ah, yes, the ~~massively~~ ~~mostly~~ ~~kind of~~ not really at all successful D.A.R.E. Program.
It was successful at grabbing my interest. "Drugs Are Really Expensive" would have been a far better message.
Let's not forget the drug-induced fever dream that is Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue.
Complete with intro by George and Barbara Bush.
DARE = Drugs Are Really Excellent
D.A.R.E. definitely sparked my interest in drugs
I remember in highschool once, someone got caught with weed, so the school got the cops to come in and check everyone's bags, I always had a bong and a small bag of weed in my bag, because I was a dumbass stoner kid, but the universe had my back and I was sick for the 3 days this all happened, I got back to school and was the only one who didn't get screwed over.
In Canada back in the day cops would come into the classroom. They had big boards with all the drugs attached. More than a few times, they disappeared off the board.
I remember a constable coming to class with one of these and commenting that I had excellent veins should I ever do IV drugs. They 100% set us up to fail.
Here's how you do drugs, but PLEASE DON'T DO DRUGS. But here's how anyway.
Like, if you're gonna tell me not to do something, why give me instructions on how to do said thing?
That's because you have to try to know why you cannot do it. You can say all the words you want that you cannot do something but a teenager won't learn unless you give it to them and demonstrate the debilitating properties.
My school of kids education is by practice and not by empty boring talking for hours. We talk about drugs? Sure here are all the samples see why exactly they are bad on your own.
Kids do not learn just because you talk to them 50th time the same thing, they learn when they touch, taste and smell.
This is why I aspire to be a future educator, because my methods are actually working as opposed to the shitty current standard that gave us flat earthers and anti vaxxers.
Earth is flat? We call Bezos and do a trip to space for 4 worst behaving kids. Vaccines are a hoax? We unleash the smallpox and showcase that these kids who vaccinated survived.
I have a DARE shirt that says 'Drugs Are Really Expensive' underneath and i feel like thats a more effective deterrent than anything they said in the program.
That’s the same logic people use to remove things like sex ed, discussion of lgbtq, or even racism use.
If we don’t talk about the thing then it won’t happen, or, if we talk about the thing then the kids will want to or know how to do it.
DARE was pretty stupid, though. And i’m sure I have a DARE labeled pencil or two in the bottom of a box somewhere still.
I did drugs before DARE. So, we knew they were full of shit. However it was the late 70s so we had legit caution about drugs that were administered with needles so avoided those... Then the cocaine era happened.
Police business was down.