My DARE officer was a gross fat man in his forties who was removed from the program for screwing his teenage babysitter in his squad car, which wasn't illegal but still highly frowned upon. If he told us he smoked one marijuana, we would've been straight-edge for life.
and now we have one party who are so desperate to cling on to the war on drugs that their last strategy is to turn it into a literal war (aka attacking Mexico)
On top of that, we have a lot of stuff we do together with Mexico. Importing cars, having an NFL game there every year, MLB players coming from there, and of course, hosting the 2026 World Cup
If the GOP goes ahead with military action in Mexican soil, all of that goes away
No lie. I was in a D.A.R.E. event, and they had a started talking about his bad trip and seeing dragons and shit. As someone who played D&D from that early? THAT WAS FUCKING AWESOME.
Jee wonder why the kids doing drugs, also DARE introduces them to drugs espically when they're oblivious in like elementary school in the ignorant bliss of being a happy kid while do that since kids are curious beings.
Tell you what, I'll do up a printable sample over the weekend. I can't sell such stuff usually, but it's easy to take the art and have it done yourself.
This is a transparent background version of D.A.R.E. There's a rough edged version, but I liked this one better. I could not easily find a font that matched the Dare To Be Stupid on the album cover so I stopped here.
I'm reminded of my phys ed/ health teacher trying to offer us trail mix and telling us it was drugs. He also thought a game of tag was a great way to explain the spread of aids
What if I told you the goal of DARE was never to keep kids off of drugs? It was to make them more aware of the options out there, so more of them would later feed into the prison industrial complex.
Also, thank you for helping me learn so much about computers. As a kid in the 90's/00's who lived in a very small town in TN and only had dial-up internet... Maximum PC was a huge highlight for me, and I wouldn't have understood hardware nearly as much without it.
I even made a career out of it!
I just meant it wasn't a thing that the anti-drug people were particularly worried about at the time. In TN at the time, it was basically a "don't do crack" class. Crack was really popular in rural TN.
Why does the pencil keep becoming increasingly more addicted the more you use it? Perhaps the pencil is a metaphor for how fucked up you can get if you keep using drugs. Or DARE is just the same idiots who are more afraid of me watching too much tv than the consequences of not letting me watch tv.
Not everyone’s body chemistry can handle cannabis. I’m sure that depends on the type of strain and other variables. But if the whole thing makes you feel uncomfortable, definitely don’t do it.
I remember getting those. Also the DARE cop was hot and we spent like 30min on gun safety and he let us handle his shotgun(unloaded) and even showed us how to use safety switches on them and his Colt 1911. I don't remember the drug stuff much,but the gun safety instruction was very nice
From what I understand the modern version of D.A.R.E. at least started to get their shit together and realized that instead of scare tactics they should point out that drugs can be expensive and long term use can be dangerous.
At least I hope so, I don't have any kids so fucked if I know. :D
If true that's at least going in the right direction, tho ultimately dare should be more about addiction and public health. Ill say tho nothing would turn ppl off weed faster than seeing how heavily it's taxed lol. Bein a legal stoner is expensive af
This is mostly what I remember from high school, but they also had a splash of scare tactics with horror stories from past users. They just got more informed scare tactics
I went on a field trip once to a zoo with most of the kids that were in dare class I swear to fucking gods they had a couple of plants posing as "recovering marijuana addicts"
Eh... at least its progress... but yeah. Scare tactics don't do shit. All it takes is one person trying them, realizing their eyeballs didn't melt and Lucifer didn't appear to drag them to Hell, and then they'll just assume they lied about everything.
And like they really can't do shit when it comes to telling you how different fucking peer pressure is now. There's a lot of ways these programs just aren't caught up with modern times. And I think they probably won't be fully caught up ever, but they certainly didn't work on me.
Oh almost certainly not. I bet some of the videos they're using are still from the 1980s. These sorts of programs tend to go wild at first when they're some politician's pet project, but once that guy is outta office they MIGHT get SOME funding (but don't bet on it.)
I remember quite vividly as a kid when they did break out the drug suit case to show these are drugs and remember more kids were wowed by that then listening to the message. Molding minds.
Two dif cops. One did usual scare tactics where they told someone's story of heroin addiction but called it dope and made it sound like cannabis. The other guy started talking about all the house fires from stoners making french fries and falling asleep with the oven on. One of those stuck better.
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you'll be able to see sound
your ego will dissolve
Maybe when the kids are grown up, never too late to start right?
I guarantee that would’ve been more prohibitively effective
It's so stupid, even the hawkiest of war hawks are fighting each other on how to or if they should do it
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04...
If the GOP goes ahead with military action in Mexican soil, all of that goes away
It backfired. Naturally.
The Fallout series taught me a lot more about substance abuse than any drug education I ever had.
Gay for the Lion
Old samples:
https://www.zazzle.com/z/at7b7a9r
https://www.zazzle.com/z/5ur9y6s0
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I remember reading Maximum PC in the early 2000's when you were there.
You were not 90 then.
I even made a career out of it!
Get drunk on Mike’s, Bud Light, or the girly Cosmo stuff.
bless you. much needed laughter 😆
"Even one hit of acid can stay hiding in your spinal fluid for 20 years and slowly drive you insane."
Felt
"This one will make you think you have energy, and this one will make you lose energy!"
"What does that one do???"
"Oh this one isn't really that bad. It just makes you horny."
At least I hope so, I don't have any kids so fucked if I know. :D
The D.A.R.E. program did its job to frighten me not educate me on it. Now I'm pushing 40 and am a recovering alcoholic and a pretty heavy stoner.
Fear based education and prohibition always fail.
But it also taught me how to use heroine by explaining how bad it is with too many specifics.
I've never done hard drugs, but that's because of childhood experience, not DARE.
"Porerd é o programa"
I'm 25 and now I'm somehow worse than if I had done drugs
well...I wasn't. DARE was phased out by the time I reached that point in school. I had "GREAT" instead :/ No hot furry mascot :/
They asked everyone to tell 1 thing they learned.
A girl in that class had the funniest response "before today I didn't even know how to take half these drugs!"