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Old D.A.R.E memories

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Do you guys (and girls) have any memories of d.a.r.e. class in middle school?

I remember once they filled up the auditorium to show us a slide show of E pills. Then they proceeded to tell us that if we did it once we ran a great risk of death. I specifically remember them beating it into our heads "all it takes is one pill" I also remember them telling us the reason they put marks like a nike swoosh on the pills were so they appealed to children and seemed safe.
 
I remeber very very little of the DARE Program. I do remeber that we were forced to roll play and I was very uncomfortable with doing it and was mortifded that I was the pick to be the dealer/bad guy when we did it. other than that I remeber the dare officer telling a story about pulling a shotgun out of the curser when stopping a suspect but other than that I don't really remember anything.

I think I was in 4th grade so its been 20 years or better...:\
 
Ha, do you remember that anti drug commercial where a girl died and they go " the only thing in her system was ecstasy." Then they showed a picture of her brain and it had all those holes in it. Classic.
 
I took Dare in 6th grade I had no idea about drugs really before that so talk about your all time backfires.

My cop was a typical fat POS type so I hated it. I remember the puberty videos too

"just around the corner" lol
 
It wasn't D.A.R.E., but I remember in elementary school in "guidance" class, the teacher told a story of two guys who bought some acid together. One of the guys did it first and was waiting for it to kick in before giving it to the other guy. But as they wait, he tells the other guy that something is wrong with the acid, that its not right, and THEN HIS JAW FELL OFF! Apparently when this woman (or whoever she heard it from) decided to make up this story, they forgot about the fact that just because 'acid' is slang for LSD, it isn't actually hydrochloric acid or sulfuric acid or magical movie acid or anything like that...
 
I think the key difference between DARE and Bluelight is that DARE's entire, systemic strategy was entirely based on lies and deception. I agree that DARE and Bluelight have the same mission, which is harm reduction. I just think that DARE's strategy is despicable. Sometimes misinformation is spread on Bluelight, but those are the exceptions rather than the rule, and there is often someone there to correct it. With DARE, doing one's own research is discouraged because that would be detrimental to the strategy. On Bluelight, doing one's own research is one of the highest virtues.
 
I had dare in 5th grade... All I remember is drawing a picture of a car driving into a telephone pole saying don't drink and drive. My dare officer ended up being in the paper when I was in 10th grade for having sex with a female cop and another male cop at the police station. True story :\
 
My dare officer told us a story of this guy smoking pot then killing his friend with a shotgun and laughing about it thinking it was a dream or whatever. I thought about that the first time I smoked weed and made sure I was away from firearms. He also said LSD would make you see taste colors and see sounds I am still kinda bummed thats not true.
 
I remember a few things. I remember first learning about a certain fungus in the ground that caused hallucinations and instantly thought "I want to try this". The other thing I remember is have to do a report on drugs and I was given both LSD and PCP that way given the fact that LSD is physically harmless I'd see that PCP wasn't and had to group them together.....Kinda wish I could redo that report.
 
I didn't have "D.A.R.E" but we did have a drugs awareness lesson in college. It was mandatory and terrible. Considering we were 16/17/18 years old, we were talked at like children.
Weed didn't really get addressed, apart from "Causes paranoia, schizophrenia, ruins lives" etc the same as all drugs.
Ecstasy was vilified pretty badly. It is ALWAYS cut with heroin to get you addicted, and you are totally at MASSIVE risk of over/under hydrating because your brain is useless because you took E's.
LSD gets the best mention. One tab; yes just one tab! And you will go insane and try kill yourself because hallucinations are always bad and evil and scary.
 
I really think DARE had some influence over drug use. Like epic11 said, i had no idea what ecstasy was when i was 11. Then when I got to high school and saw kids smoking pot, doing mushrooms and getting high on E I knew something was wrong because they were all fine, many going to college the next year and what not. So naturally I wanted to see for myself.
 
crimsonjunk said:
...He also said LSD would make you see taste colors and see sounds I am still kinda bummed thats not true.
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Boy was that cop right lol...my buddy and I fried our tits off the other night and both of us really did see sound watching cars go by at high speed and seeing the air collapse behind them like how a supersonic jet cuts through air in a sonic boom. It was cool as shit.

Shit i can't remember anything about D.A.R.E. I guess I should've listened to em, but instead I destroyed my brain and all those memories. God they were right! Ugh... :P
 
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I remember those D.A.R.E classes, we took them in the fourth and fifth grade. I was a sponge for information back then, much in the way that I am now except I didn't question what i was being told (who does at 10?) They had me on the hook for the next 18 years of my life with the idea that ALL drugs (mind you didn't consider alcohol to be a "bad" drug) were terrible, those who took them were awful, mindless weaklings and that anyone who used drugs was the enemy. I also had two parents struggling with substance abuse problems of their own (mom was about a year sober at that time and my dad was so far into the Heroin abyss that he would remain there for the next decade) so I also had personal reasons for buying into everything we were taught. I did NOT want to end up like my parents so for me that meant staying away from anyone having any dealings with drugs and to never, ever, experiment. I even cried when our D.A.R.E officer had to go out on maternity leave...*sigh*

I do to an extent believe that some of the lessons they teach can be useful, like how to avoid peer pressure and the bandwagon effect. However, knowing what I know now about MDMA and what I am learning about the benefits of other substances I think American education is taking a very backwards approach in how/what we teach young people about these substances. Much like the "sex ed" classes in this country, more people need to understand the value in teaching the real facts from an early age, and also allowing a dialogue exchange where kids don't feel like they will be slammed into the wall for being curious, having questions and wanting real answers. Unfortunately this won't change until our policies against drugs in general change...and that will not happen so long as big business has a invested future in people drinking and smoking their asses off.

*hops off soapbox*
 
Blanch said:
I really think DARE had some influence over drug use. Like epic11 said, i had no idea what ecstasy was when i was 11. Then when I got to high school and saw kids smoking pot, doing mushrooms and getting high on E I knew something was wrong because they were all fine, many going to college the next year and what not. So naturally I wanted to see for myself.
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Anyone else think it's weird they started DARE around the same time the Contras was going on? Or that the government recently got whistles blown on their illegal "sting" operations where they send guns directly to the drug cartels "to track them" knowing they had absolutely no way of finding out where they went, or that the DEA has been laundering drug cartel money.

You can look up the company Zapata Oil Corp and it's easy to see how Bush Sr and his company played a big role in Iran Contra, especially him being over the CIA at the time and in the CIA for many years.. Along with his company.

You can also read the book Powder Burns by ex-DEA agent Celerino Castillo. Here is a youtube interview by paranoid radio host Alex Jones... I don't like Alex Jones but he asks really good questions and the answers are intriguing.

I think it's baloney that supposedly most kids try drugs at ELEVEN fucking years old! Then they shove all this obviously fake propaganda down our throats that anyone with half a brain can see right through, as pointed out in the quoted above post.

I think this shit has more to do with the above ($$$ + crooked politics), than any actual harm reduction. You think with all these drones and shit they have flying around and all the billions of $ the government spends on eradication they could get rid of the coca fields in South America if they really wanted. They only get rid of the less profitable ones to them and then ship and sell the cocaine back to the US and rest of the world.

It's ironic the CIA was supplying "freeway ricky ross" with his cocaine back during the crack epidemic, and now low and behold 90% of the cocaine supply is cut with flesh-eating, immuno-suppressant levamisole, which low and behold - cooks perfectly into crack, the more addictive form of cocaine... That's why 100% levamicoke cooks into 100% crack rock (even if only 50% cocaine). Conveniently enough the levamisole also eats flesh, making it very hard to snort regularly without damaging sinuses and causing severe nosebleeds. But with crack, you can smoke it for days nonstop, take a nap to avoid psychosis, then back to smoking. With powder nowadays you pretty much have to either find some stuff without much levamisole, or stop snorting.
The % of levamicoke in the US is alsothe eerily close to the amount of cocaine coming from Mexico, which the government has recently admitted to supplying weapons to and laundering money for rather arbitrary reasons which no actual good has apparently come from.

That company Zapata oil was made by Bush Sr and right when JFK was shot, just over an hour later he was blaming a politician from Houston for the assassination. Let's not forget JFK was against the war on drugs from the get-go and actually pardoned hundreds of drug offenders during his shortened presidency.

This could be overwhelming coincidences but taken everything into consideration it looks pretty suspect IMO. Iran Contra was an undeniable scandal swept under the rug. My belief is that one day the war on drugs will be exposed for a fraud and the crooks behind it are preparing for it.
 
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