Anti-drug campaign to target children aged five

Wont someone think of the children?!?!?!?

Seriously, why teach kids at that age? DARE is what got me interested in drugs in the first place...
 
That's right, baby--D.A.R.E. to do the drugs they "warn" you about.

It's so human nature...

lol
 
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Im suprised some of you didnt have any dare programs until middle school. I remember it being in around 4th grade i believe for me.

Though it is strange how that type of educationworks. I remember learning more about pcp, crack, and ecstasy than marijuana. One thing they never told the children was that drugs made you feel good. They educate about how it has negative effects, how people become losers for using them, but leave out the important factor of them making you feel good.
 
Those guys annoy me. You know, the guys that think i'ts ironic that they use marijuana and wear DARE t-shirts and have a DARE license plate. Yeah, like a cop ain't gonna pull you over cause your black tinted out Ford Mustang has a DARE sticker.
 
They'll just grow up into our new, more powerful generation, gain access to the internet, and not be retarded. except for those special few idiots that buy the governments bullshit.
 
thedeadlywar said:
They'll just grow up into our new, more powerful generation, gain access to the internet, and not be retarded. except for those special few idiots that buy the governments bullshit.

I hope so, because there is this "straight-edge" fad gaining ground with today's highschoolers. It is from the 80s as sort of a counter-culture but now everyone is "straight-edge" even if they do not even listen to minor threat and hardcore music.
 
^^^^ Can you listen to classical music and be straight-edge?

Also, is there an age limit or are "straight-edgers" free from age-discrimination?

Because "straight-edging" just sounds like something I really really really want to do... ;)

Stoopid fucking teenagers--I was never one myself...
 
ziplin said:
thats not much younger than the age you get taught bout drugs in NZ... i remember that stupid LIFE van/truck thing that use to come to our schools, and we'd all sit in that fucking shitty thing with cool lights in the cieling made to look like stars and a shitty giaraff puppit telling us stupid shit.


hahaha fucking harold those were the days.

and that talking brain thing with the flashing lights.

it would be pretty cool to go in there whle tripping
 
What does DARE actually stand for? I've heard about a billion and one other explanations of it heh but not the actual one.
 
I lived in Jordan (in the Middle East) when I was in primary and some of middle-school. You know what their strategy on drug education was? to simply pretend they don't exist and never mention them!.

And you know what? It worked.

I never had the desire to try drugs until I was "educated" about them when I moved to Canada.
 
I don't know many primary school and middle-school aged kids that are interested in drugs. Hell, we had the anti-drug programs and none of us were experimenting or interested. It's just something you don't care about at the early age.

Maybe a few 8th grade "rebels" that are aware of them from older siblings, friends, or family members...
 
Karaboudjan said:
What does DARE actually stand for? I've heard about a billion and one other explanations of it heh but not the actual one.

Drug Abuse Resistance Education
Also the cop that came to our school said that marijuana "addicts" would crush up rat poison in their joints to get higher when their tolerance was high. 8) The sad part was that I believed it at the time. I figured that high=brain damage and that marijuana was some sort of poisonous plant and when your body gets use to the poison you have to add another poison. :D
 
phrozen said:
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How could you "warn" someone when they don't understand what you're talking about? They're just drilling "drugs are bad" into their heads as early as possible. That's not brainwashing?

the article says they will give "advice never to open bottles, touch needles or swallow anything"

that seems perfectly sensible to tell a five year old from a safety perspective, in my opinion
 
I don't see what's wrong with this. Obviously many of you do not have kids.

While it's fine and dandy for you to use drugs, I don't think you'd want your kids to use. It's expensive, it becomes a liability, the fact of the matter is that drug users are less likely to go to college than non-drug users. You are more likely to be involved in legal troubles, which are quite costly to the family.

I don't care if my kids shoot up heroin and smoke crack when they get older and out on their own, but you won't be touching alcohol or cigarettes even until you get the fuck out of my house and living on your own. Once you graduate college, you can do whatever the hell you want. But when I'm the one who gets fucked and has to pay your lawyer fees, who has to pay because your still living in my house, or has to deal with wasted college tuition because you had to drop out, I'm gonna lay the smack down if I find out you do drugs.

Fact of the matter is that none of us care about drugs now, but it's our parents who get royally fucked in the ass when their kids are busted or don't go to college or do as good in school all because of drugs.

Now we can argue all day that drug legalization would just make this world all magical and wonderful, but truth of the matter is that we don't live in such a world, so go cry yourself a river.

And even if drugs were legalized, my kids still would have no part in drug use. Statistics show quite clearly drug users don't go to college at the same rate as the general populace.

Another thing, I don't know about you guys, but I've seen far too many people die, overdose, whore themselves out, get shot, get beat, and all sorts of nasty things, over drugs, even just for marijuana. I pray that my kids never will get involved in such a dark world.
 
naatural said:
the article says they will give "advice never to open bottles, touch needles or swallow anything"

that seems perfectly sensible to tell a five year old from a safety perspective, in my opinion
That'd be fine if that's all they were doing.

The DARE program I had in middle school was not just that. I remember having to memorize the harm associated with abusing specific drugs(some accurate, most was not), getting the whole "just say no" spiel, and watching videos of drug addicts tell their stories.

I'm all for warning kids about drugs, but you gotta make sure that what you tell is fair and balanced. Telling someone "You will get addicted from one line of coke," is not accurate.
 
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