Texas still has some vestiges of it, and here it's geared to the schoolkids, to breed up a whole new generation of finks
we have it here in ohio, the police officer teaching told me when i mentioned medical marijuana that "cancer patients just need to suck it up" **EXACT WORDS**
Welcome to America. I'm not a cancer patient, but I have my own medical issues, and believe me, I'd gladly suck it up.... (sound of water pipe burbling)
i get so pissed with all the lies they tell all their propaganda bullshit, i dont know if there behind the anti pot commercials, but those are so ridiculous, like the one where theyre getting kicked by the donkey, and its like you wouldnt do this would you? then why would yo smoke weed? and the one where the kid makes a weed cacoon (witch incidentally i want one) and he becomes a big fat blad guy that looks like a lame KG
haha i had dare in elementary and middle school. in some other schools they had a program called "g.r.e.a.t." never knew what it stood for but it was the same thing as dare. anyway.. now when i hear dare i think of the supervillians t-shirt. it has the dare logo. its black with the red "D.A.R.E." and under it says, "to smoke me out". haha... dare to smoke me out. love it.
That's what my wife and I said as soon as our kid told us those assholes were at his school, just another part of the new age fear mongering culture we live in I guess. It's bad enough I gotta sneak off so I don't present a bad example, now I gotta worry about my kids turning me in? Please. 'Course my kid's no dummy, he saw them for the jerk offs they were at the age of 10. At least they're good for something...
Consider this scenario: A kid turns in his folks to the DARE program. The cops bust the parents, seize the house, and put the kid in a foster home. No one benefits from this...except the DARE personnel, the cops, the lawyers the parents need to hire to bail them out, etc., but certainly no one who is important in the life of the child. Drugs and addiction are often a result of family problems, such as abuse or neglect. The fear and distrust brought on by programs like DARE make these problems worse if anything.
I've never actually seen people involved with DARE, other than in school. That program was such a failure. I remember them spending a week telling us that if you ever smoked pot it would kill you or it would result in serious brain damage. I remember GREAT from elementary school. I think it had something to do with gangs. I've also seen a shirt that says Drugs are Really Excellent under the DARE logo.
yeah, unfortunately cops are using the dare shirts and stickers to profile anyone over the age of like..10, as a user or someone who knows a user.
haha I remember DARE. havnt heard of them around in a long time though. i used to take that shit and honestly, i dont think i ever would have tried acid had i not seen those videos about it. all i was thinking was "this shit looks so tight" i think i saw some stat that kids who take the program are more likely to use. that would make sense cause what 9 year old has heard of mescaline and ketamine and shit?
ugh. I just had a creepy conspiracy type thought. DARE...ensuring the existence and justification of the war on drugs.
We didn't have DARE, but in middle school, health class made me unbelievably fascinated with drugs. A couple years later, I made the grade 9 health teacher look really bad when I knew way more about drugs than him and I could correct him on the facts.
DARE is little more than a nationwide social indoctrination program designed to get kids to snitch out their friends and family members. it's just too damned bad the DARE officers never take he time out to explain to the kids they'll probably end up in custody of the state after they snitch out their parents or guardians.
True. However, if the DARE officers explained the consequences of snitching, they'd end up being less busy, and less able to justify their salaries. The criminal justice system is an industry unto itself. One in a hundred adults are in jail, disproportionately more than any other developed country, mostly for drug possession, and nobody's benefiting from it, except the officers, lawyers, and prison staff it employs.