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Classroom memories of JUST SAY NO and D.A.R.E.

The grade six anti-drug lectures hosted by a cop are what got me into drugs from such a young age. I figured drugs must be pretty amazing if there is enough incentive for a cop to explicitly tell a room full of sixth graders not to do them. That combined with the diversity of drugs he talked about form dissociatives to psychedelics made it inevitable that I would cultivate an interest in said subject. Here is a paper I found interesting talking about how D.A.R.E. turned out to be a spectacular failure:

 
I remember my Chinese friend took me with him to "attend" his sister's DARE "graduation". We must've been pretty desperate for entertainment...

But hey kids, that's how it was before God DAREd us to use internet phones & such.
We did alright, though, with Beavis & Butthead and McGruff the Crime Dawg feat. Scruffy his Nephew to serve as role models...
 
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Morbid Sea Cow said:
The grade six anti-drug lectures hosted by a cop are what got me into drugs from such a young age. I figured drugs must be pretty amazing if there is enough incentive for a cop to explicitly tell a room full of sixth graders not to do them. That combined with the diversity of drugs he talked about form dissociatives to psychedelics made it inevitable that I would cultivate an interest in said subject.
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My first job (at age 12) was delivering newspapers. Most of my route was apartment buildings, so I was on foot. As I walked I read the daily paper-- at least the front page. This was 1971-72, and I kept seeing articles about the terrible problem of increasing marijuana use. I remember thinking If this stuff is so bad, why are more & more people using it? I couldn't wait to try it.

Side note: This was also during the Vietnam War, the Nixon administration, high racial tensions, and college student activism. I became a Lefty pretty early-- much to the outrage of my hardcore Republican parents. Using drugs fit in nicely with my political rebellion.
 
Mycophile said:
God D.A.R.E. was a joke.

I also took "C.O.P.E." even before DARE in 4th grade. Not sure if anyone else took that.

But you know what always annoys me? Not sure if it's this way in all states in the U.S. let alone other countries, but I live in NY, and EVERY SINGLE TOWN I enter when driving has a DARE sign next the sign for when you are entering that town, you know, just to let you know that everyone who lives in that town is totally down with the message that any and all drugs are evil...unless they are prescribed...or alcohol...or caffeine...or tobacco...or weed maybe now if it's a legal state but not before? or well.....you get the point!! LOL

I wonder how much tax payer money it cost to put up all those signs.

I also get annoyed as shit that their motto is "DARE to resist drugs AND VIOLENCE", like as if the 2 always go hand in hand you know?

Biggest thing that makes drug use and purchases "violent" is usually their being illegal, with the exception of alcohol which is a factor in more violence than any illegal drug, yet still, it should stay legal.

But like, yeah, after smoking weed or taking shrooms or kratom or any number of other substances, being violent is just about the last thing on most people's minds.
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Fuck man DARE was basically a drug advertising campaign.

.. Telling you EXACTLY what to look for, what to expect and how to get it.
 
DARE was a joke. It did work on me initially. I was "anti" drug I mean I had friends who started smoking weed and experimenting around 6th or 7th grade. I never judged them but was really of the mindset that drugs weren't for me.

Then I entered 9th grade. I started noticing more and more friends who seemed to be smoking weed. I also at that time really started to dive into hip-hop after a few years of being a metal head, and I was hearing a lot of references to weed in the lyrics. The music made it not sound very bad, and ny friends didn't seem to have their lives falling apart. At one point I decided I might want to try smoking weed. I spent about a week on Erowid reading about Marijuana and realized that I had been lied to by the adults in my life. I decided I was ready to try it.

Approached a friend who I knew smoked and told them I was ready. They were stoked because they had been trying to get me to smoke for about a year. We acquired some from upperclassmen, got together with another friend who was already a "vet" in my eyes, and my own close friend who was a psychoactive Virgin like myself. We smoked under a bridge on the edge of town. Couldn't put my thumb on how I was feeling. But we laughed an absolute ton, and we had a fucking blast.

That was the moment that I learned that I couldn't trust the adults in my life. I turned 15 shortly after and tried mushrooms after more time spent on Erowid and talking to a friend who had tried them. Yup. DARE is bullshit, I realized. Drugs aren't bad. The mushrooms blew my mind and I then felt I had to find out what every drug does. From then on I spent all of my free time on Erowid and Bluelight and I began racking up some pretty intense psychoactive experiences early on.

I'm now 28, have used over 100 psychoactive substances, been through multiple rehabs, been close to death a number of times from drug use. DARE did not work on me. It had the opposite effect. It taught me that I couldn't trust the adults in my life and that I had to experience things for myself. I can't help but feel as though I might not have been so willing to try hard drugs if I had gotten a proper education about them.
 
Where I grew up we didn't have DARE, nothing specific really, apart from some vague teacher's pronouncement how drugs were bad. Then we all had to sit and watch Christiane F. I just thought 'hey this is a very good film' and it stopped me doing precisely fuck all.

.. From what I've heard of DARE though it had leaflets pretty much detailing the properties and effects of various drugs, how they looked and the ways people take them. That sounds like a consumer information brochure 🤣
 
Dare’s ugly cousin was church. Now I know what you’re saying but I went to Catholic Church. It’s pedophiles and domineers
 
TheUltimateFixx said:
Where I grew up we didn't have DARE, nothing specific really, apart from some vague teacher's pronouncement how drugs were bad. Then we all had to sit and watch Christiane F. I just thought 'hey this is a very good film' and it stopped me doing precisely fuck all.

.. From what I've heard of DARE though it had leaflets pretty much detailing the properties and effects of various drugs, how they looked and the ways people take them. That sounds like a consumer information brochure 🤣
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Epic movie
 
They warn gen-z about "popcorn-lung" now. Pretty sure the highly publicized vaping related hospital visits were from illegal THC pens, so the whole thing was a self fulfilling professy.
I remember 6th grade featured some vague horror story about LSD making you do things you don't want to do, whatever the hell that means.
 
Think they are finally getting rid of these programs, I don't even have any experiences similar to what you guys are talking about. When I was back in 5th-6th grade there was a woman who would come and tell us about the dangers of cig smoking and drinking, but in 7th grade we had guy come in and tell us he used to be an coke addict and he explained about the developing brain and neuroplasticity and how we should wait until 16-17, preferably 18, for cannabis smoking and early 20's for dissos, stims, opiates, etc. Maybe I have a liberal school, and granted I'm only going 9th grade this year so idk what other things they may teach, but it seems like they are slowly switching to more logical ways of showing us kids of the dangers of drug use, cause he also went into detail of how fucked his life was.
 
D.A.R.E. I think is total drug abstienence. And abstinence only sex education was taught in my school.
Pretty much everybody in my college were into the high life.
And as those years turned into adulthood, I hang around like minded drug warriors. Pro responsible drug use.
I'm glad the schools hire people who say there are positives for sensible drug policy.
Stay in school. And it's easier to stay in school when you choose intoxicants wisely. :) @yd420
 
I'm surprised no mention of the movie Reefer Madness yet. I have this DVD somewhere, fuckin rich :bong:

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