D.A.R.E. Was a Bigger Failure Than Most People Realized
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- The D.A.R.E. program, which stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education, was a staple of childhood for millions of American children in the '80s and '90s. It set out to tell kids about the perils of alcohol and other substances, but there was a catch: it didn't work.
The D.A.R.E. program's effectiveness was measured many times during the first decade it was introduced, and it was found to be both costly and ineffective. People became so passionate about the idea of D.A.R.E., however, that they were willing to overlook its many shortcomings. When you look at who started the D.A.R.E. program, its failures and continued use begin to make a little more sense. Los Angeles police officers founded it in conjunction with school teachers, rather than researchers and behavioral experts. The architects of the initiative believed that telling kids to just say "no" and showing them how substance use and alcohol could negatively affect the body would lead to lower rates of consumption.
#DARE #justsayno #weirdhistory
What was the most memorable thing you remember from D.A.R.E?
THE DAMN SONG😭😭
Literally nothing, it was sooo boring that I just completely blanked.
The cake and food we got when D.A.R.E was over😁
Weird History
The T-shits 😂
How much money my local police department spent on Dare logos.
I remember in elementary school being given those pencils “too cool to do drugs” and IMMEDIATELY EVERYONE sharpened them down to “do drugs”
👌 👌 👌 That would be funny though imagine going home with that and telling them I got it from school.
Yesss!!!
I DID THAT!!!
Hahaha
Reminds me of the greatest injustice of elementary school. You had used a pen for quite a while now, all that remains is a little stump. You are this close to finishing that pen.
And then boom! Teacher comes up to you, grabs the pen and then hands you a brand new, long one. "You can't write with that can you?".
Dare lied to me in school I thought I’d be offered drugs left and right, turns out I was not
Its harder to find drugs than we were made to believe.... ... what if I want weed and have no friends. It's an inside clique, that's why the government officials hate it, because they dont know where to get weed either
mooneverland How can anyone not know where to find weed it’s everywhere 😂😂😂
@@squashua7222 depends where you live
Then u had dorks for friends
@@xhivae I don't know man, if my friends didn't have weed, I'd ask their friends, and so on. By the end of the day, we *always* had weed.
I grew up with D.A.R.E, and I never did drugs!
... Mostly because I was never cool enough to know where to get them.
Same
LOL! Same Here!
Same
Autism is my anti-drug.
same
My most vivid memory of my D.A.R.E. program was our 'graduation' ceremony, in which the school administrators forgot to tell our grade we needed to shake all the police officers' hands on the way off stage, and then calling an assembly the next day to yell at us nine-year-olds for hurting these middle-aged cops' feelings.
Am I out of touch? No, it's the kids who are wrong!
That is an amazing story 😂
Completely disgusting/borderline grooming, just crazy.
As unstable as she was, my high school health teacher was actually pretty great at being realistic. She mocked how DARE presented situations of people bullying you into using illicit substances and told us it would likely happen at a party surrounded by people you admire. She then gave us some ideas on how to handle the situation responsibly without looking like a kid from a bad 80s video. Shout out to Ms. Wolff. One of the better teachers out there.
She smoked meth between classes. Small doses. I hope you might follow? I think she's cool too!
Tbh it's always the teachers who did drugs or do them that are the best insight into drugs.
I'd rather ask a non-community service mandated ex drug user or drug user about how bad drugs are than some wannabe mormon youth group who probably never did it.
well if she was married to a Mr. Wolff, you can bet she had a good handle on the situation
The first time a kid smokes pot he knows it's a lie,
When my nephew started asking me about drugs I told him the truth. This is what it does, good and bad. Don't take more than this. This is the fun stuff I did on it and this is the stupid shit I did. Him and his wife have raised 2 great daughters.
@@funkygerbil2530 hell, pots been part of human civilization for as long as it exhisted pmuch, it even pre-dates tobacco (if not at least in the fact that tobacco is American).. i
ts quite clear our habits don't do much to destroy us as a species as long as we moderate it as a society.
my first marijuana-injection didn't do too much to me and even now it takes a bit to matter, and that's cool, it gives me just enough space to think.. and suddenly Carl Sagan happens.. then i forget
It’s funny to see D.A.R.E shirts being sold in smoke shops
Drugs
Are
Really
Expensive
It's ironic that one of my favorite pastimes was smoking weed and watching Drug Psas. That shit was fun to smoke to and made me wanna get high even more.
The kids who wore D.A.R.E shirts were usually the guys who sold acid at my high school
Jaffa Khan I still have mine but it doesn’t fit.
It's just a way to brainwash idiots so there shitty shop makes some money
Middle school taught me that I would be receiving free drug handouts every other day in highschool and college. still waiting on that one to come through
Some drug dealers will give you your first taste free, or a free tester to get a new customer. But once they’re hooked they gotta pay.
@@davinacarrell2427 Can you please direct me to the dealer giving out free drugs
@@davinacarrell2427 you must be a woman to be given free samples, men aren’t so lucky
Storybook drug tales
@@savage_turtle1791 it's usually something other than crack though.
We had a DARE program come to our school. They asked us to put on drunk goggles and then drive golf carts around a course. The issue wasn't the drunk goggles it was that most students had never driven a golf cart. I had worked at a golf course and went right through the course easily and smoothly. The officer was pissed and claimed I cheated.
How would you even cheat at driving a golf cart?
@@trianglemoebius I think they probably thought they cheated by doing something fishy with the drunk goggles, not something weird with the cart.
When I was in school (post-DARE program) our SRO did do a small talk with us 4th graders in which they had us try to walk a line with the drunk goggles, which was decidedly more difficult with the goggles on than without them, but still wasn't impossible
I had to wear drunk goggles and play cornhole at a court ordered driving class when I was in high school…and I was doing really good so once I started drinking I knew I was good to drive cause I was good at drunken cornhole at the driving class
My most memorable thing from D.A.R.E. was that my D.A.R.E. officer was arrested and fired for selling drugs to kids lol.
"HA HAH"
I've caught 2 resource officers smoking up in their squad cars on campus.🤣
The irony there is just too much
@@zuo3063
Meh, hardly surprising... Especially with all the free samples laying around.
Of course, be aware that it's perfectly legal for cops to either fake or actually use drugs in front of you, in an effort to gather evidence to charge you with crimes or gain your confidence so you'll rat out people.
Just because they seem cool & totally reasonable, does NOT mean they are trustworthy! Indeed all my friends who are cops have told me that they would never trust most cops!
You can never totally trust anyone who makes an oath to uphold the law over humanity, reality, the truth, justice, what's moral, justified, acceptable, etc. It's a bit like animals... You can trust them to be animals, nothing more, nothing less.
Even the good ones are eaten alive by the system, it's nearly impossible to successfully maintain your decency in such environments. Even I had to recognize that if I stayed in it (my case, the military but for these purposes, it's similar), it would have destroyed me.
Just the short time that I was in, had already changed me almost unrecognizably... I didn't care about who I hurt or what I did, just follow the order...
I could have been an amazing soldier but before it was too late, I recognized the error of my ways. It took a very long time to unteach myself the bad habits I had learned from them.
That's not to say that the military is all bad or has no place in modern society. It's just that it, like most else, needs meaningful reforms to bring up to snuff.
Adam
Ain't Karma a bitch?
According to DARE, people would run up to you and give you drugs for free.
Justin Y. Just doesn’t work like that anymore, people are too greedy!!
Since when? Lol.
Shut up bitch
They still give out free heroin round these parts.
They did
“You’re at the age where you’re gonna wanna take off your clothes and touch eachother. But you will get pregnant and die!”
My ribs!
According to the lore, that is a program called Project SOS that spews that kind of garbage. I've also seen it listed as APE clubs in different locations across the country.
Dean Winchester HA!!! Jokes on them, I NEVER got pregnant! :D
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
GM3210 ....
Shhhh no one must know
Fun fact: Mr. Regan was in charge of running drugs while Mrs. Regan was telling kids NOT to do drugs! 😂
Facts
They knew the outcome would turn kids to drugs, otherwise why ignore the data and not publish it? Because then it leads back to the people running the country and the ones running the program
💯
And Obama supplied guns to cartels across the southern boarder
Source?
Honestly, instead of cops, why not have recovered addicts come in and talk about their experiences and let them answer students’ questions?
I was wondering this EXACT thing. I feel like this would be SOO much more convincing rather than it coming from what some people might call "goodie-two-shoes", i.e. old politicians and fucking cops lmao.
They do this in adolescent wards in psych hospitals and it absolutely never worked.
Source: my excessive stays in said psych wards
Then you might end up with Tyrone Biggums talking about lord knows what.
My high school did this and those stories were far more memorable than anything Dare shat out
Because the war on drugs was used to smash the poor and minorities
They didn't want to give any of them any legitimacy
What I got out of DARE: learned about many drugs that I'd otherwise not heard of and never smoked
Exactly!! Same here lol
Same here, brother. I didn't even know what drugs were until Kirk Cameron interrupted my Saturday morning Scooby Doo and introduced me to the wonderful world of sweet Indian hemp, bubonic chronic, crucial chronic, chocolate buddha chai, Colombian gold, wet sticks, death sticks, black tar, benzo's and jenkem aka liquid ass. I was 4 years old.
all it did was encourage people
The way to stop drugs is to stop the media from glamorizing it. Dare wasn’t the problem. It should have told them that drugs are for lowlifes
@@evilubuntu9001 lmao
I've literally never seen anyone peer pressured into doing weed. If someone doesn't want to, It usually goes like this
A: "Hey, you want a hit?"
B: "No thanks"
A: "Ok"
Idk, I think you missed a bit. I've been in quite a few stoner circles and it usually goes more like this.
A: "Hey, you want a hit?"
B: "No thanks"
A: "You sure?"
B: "Yeah, I'm good."
A: "Ok."
I'm afraid it goes deeper...
A: "Hey, you want a hit?"
B: "No thanks"
A: "You sure?"
B: "Yeah, I'm good."
A: "Ok."
C: "Hey, trade seats with me then so we don't have to pass it in front of you."
@@HiSodiumContent Yeah i don't remember that. But I take your word for it
Glad you guys had more positive interactions. I got laughed at to my face for saying no.
@@ThePrimith ouch, im sorry to hear that bro
I wish i had kept my DARE book it had pictures of each drug. As an elementary kid, thats how I identified the joints in my mom’s jewelry box and “roaches” in her ashtrays. Thanks DARE ! My childhood gone in a flash.
I think we need to bring former addicts and alcoholics in high schools. They’re more relatable than a lion that tells you not to give into peer pressure.
I agree. Show people what they could become.
My school's health class program once brought in a guy with AIDS/HIV he got from intravenous drugs. He looked like hammered shit, and had a patch of hair that had turned white due to complications. That seemed to work.
My school did this with dangerous driving, let me tell you, actually meeting people living with permanent brain damage scared the shit out of us in the best way
Jake the snake Roberts
Show them a bunch of meth heads lol
All I can think of rn is the “too cool to do drugs” pencil thats message changes drastically as it’s sharpened
Right😂😂 the only pencil you would use down to the bottom to get it to say "do drugs"
what a relic of history lol, that brought me waaay back
Parent: WHY ARE YOU DOING DRUGS?!
Kid: MY PENCIL TOLD ME TOO!
😂
*Do drugs*
To this day I have never been offered free meth. My "Just say no!" training has gone to waste :/
You need better friends then.
Omg it’s Ferdinand Von Aegir 😮
Well, maybe that's a good thing, OP; meth does some pretty messed up things to you. I much prefer free pot, never said no to that yet. Helps with muscle spasms. 👍
I have. Maybe your friends suck.
I think they mean more like when your friend gives you some of their weed
Watching Steve-o's videos where he tells you what his experience with addiction was like is a better way to keep people off drugs than anything they can teach in schools
Yeah. When the guy who was pretty much playground talk keeps it real with the way he had to recover, the very same guy that was one of the wildest of Jackass, that's something.
Steve O for DARE program!!!!
Before going through D.A.R.E: "I don't even know what drugs are."
After graduating D.A.R.E: "You can eat things that make you see funny shit? Count me in."
So true
Guilty 😅
Tragic
We learned that sniffing sharpies and whiteboard markers can get you high. Guess what I did when I got home.
Same
DARE taught me that every time I turned a corner someone would aggressively try to give me free drugs. Then real life happened, and I learned I need to pay for my weed. 😢
How did you figure that out
"Parents loved the D.A.R.E. program... it talked to your kids about drugs so you didnt have too..."
And there it is...
Right? Rasing your damn kids isn't the schools job, education is.
Dare taught me these things.
1. What drugs look like
2. The slang for it.
3. Where to get it.
4. Who sold it
And at the end all they say was “Don’t do drugs. Bye”
D.A.R.E taught me
D.rugs A.re R.eally E.xpensive
Don't do drugs kids....unless you can afford them.
The most memorable thing about DARE was having a lady walk into my classroom and tell me that if my parents (or I) drank anything with caffeine in it, we would start to hallucinate, our hearts would beat so fast they would explode, and we'd die.
And every kid in my classroom had, by then, drunk caffeinated sodas, and knew that their parents drank coffee. With such blatant lies being told to our faces, we immediately stopped listening.
They said that about....caffeine? Good lord it is like another prohibition except without any logic behind it
@@clayxros576 Yep. They kept spinning it like our parents were like street dealers and criminals. Perfect way to get them to listen to you, by trash talking their family members through blatant lies.
It was the same with our program plus they pointed out all the “vile and addictive harms marijuana caused” it was obvious to us it was just fear mongering bullshit so no one cared
My favorite is the people linking sugar to cocaine because of the certain parts of the brain being stimulated by it.
Assuming our brains shouldn’t be wired to reward us for eating food and thus staying alive.
@@alexsiemers7898 I mean, when kids get a hold of sugar, I'm PRETTY SURE it's comparable to some sort of illegal drug... that being said, yeah, we have food responses. It's a thing.
BETTER IDEA: Teach children and young Adults how to deal with their negative emotions and problems in a healthy way instead of resorting to drugs which bandaid the issues.
YES. Exactly this. Myself, would likely be doing that crap if I didn't know that it's just a rabbit hole twelve feet deep.
What? And getting involved in identifying real causes of social and personal issues instead of pandering a boogeyman? Are you crazy?
@t-dot "YOU, all right? I learned it by watching you!"
I remember a more intelligent-than-most anti-drug PSA in the 1960s which had a teenager's voice narrating disgustedly her parents' drug habits, something like, "First Mom has a couple of cups of caffeine with breakfast, plus a few drags of nicotine. After dinner, she has a couple of glasses of alcohol, plus some more nicotine. She takes an antihistamine at the first sign of a cold, an analgesic at the first sign of a headache. By bedtime, she's so strung out it's no wonder she needs barbiturates to get to sleep. I don't ever want to have a drug problem like hers."
A little heavy-handed, but way better than the average Just-Say-No-a-Gram.
Oh come on, this is America! Once the kids grow up they realize the government is actively ruining everything and no amount of counseling will ever help them! Then drugs are what’s left when god, family, and country desert them inevitably. 🥰💨
That coupled with being HONEST about drugs and their risks instead of exaggerating everything
My mom married the guy who taught my Dare class, and years later he would give me pain pills and weed. Funny how things turn out.
Sounds like a cool dude
Our dare officer was trying to get with teenage girls, it happens.
Isaiah Trujillo no it’s Rusty Shackleford
Your user name makes me suspicious....
This is something I only WISHED could happen! This is awesome! 😂
When I was in d.a.r.e. They passed a joint around for kids to see what a joint is. The officer said "if I don't get it back im searching everyone" when he got it back he had two.
"Dont accept free drugs from strangers, that's how they get ya hooked" drugs are expensive, nobody gonna give away free drugs
Drugs
.Are
.Real
.Expensive
It’s like those samples they give at supermarkets
I always remember hearing these teachers and police officers that came to the schools saying if anyone offers you fee drugs just say no. Now I wonder where were all those supposed kids or dealers giving free samples for drugs, because I sure never met any. Drugs are expensive aint nobody giving them away for free, not even as samples.
This makes me laugh every Halloween, they make a big deal about checking your six year olds candy for ecstasy, as if someones giving away thousands of dollars in party drugs to kindergartners
Never accept acid from anyone that does not look like a hippie or you run the risk of getting 25I-NBOMe. Remember kids if the tabs are bitter its a spitter.
DARE was a joke. In my small community it was literally a cop/detective introducing kids to drugs.
Right! Maybe I'm just the most boring person ever, but even now at 30 years old, there's a lot of stuff related to drugs that I would have never even heard of if it weren't for DARE.
Yeah, it sure didn't help mine either. Our drug use is through the roof, and despite the program being done in the 2010s, I don't think the new model did much (if it even was the new model). Honestly, there has to be a different approach that is more effective, this seems to be a symptom and not a direct root problem, there must be something deeper (probably mental health if I am going, to be honest, ours is garbage).
You’re right. My friend that won DARE student of the year ended up committing suicide when we were 16 because he didn’t want to juvenile hall because he kept getting caught with drugs. He started getting really into drugs when he started high school unfortunately.
@@Jules-nt5gs lying for likes 😂
Pretty much
"Here's a list of every known drug and their effects. PLEASE dont do them *wink*"
I saw a meme once and it said “Daren the lion is disappointed in literally all of you” that’s a pretty good summary
He will get over it.
If Darren would just spark a J and chill the fuck out, he'd have a better life.
Daren is probably a stoner now like most of his students
I bet Daren sparked a dubie after having to deal with kids all day.
The girl who wrote the best 5th grade DARE essay, and got to read it ALOUD IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE 5th GRADE CLASS, is now the biggest pothead in the entire class. Furthermore, one of the substances they said to say no to IS NOW LEGALIZED! Ridiculous.
The issue has never been the drugs, it has been the lack of emotional connection in the lives of thousands of people who rely on drugs to "feel". That is the issue that needs to be address.
very very reductive.
Right . The DARE program needs an upgrade .
the dare officers rlly said ‘don’t get high off of huffing straypaint, glue, and whipped cream!!’ and then expected a bunch of curious middle schoolers to just not do it
Hell my friend group was a bunch of contrarians back in middle-high school. If someone told us not to do something somone in the group would probably do it out of spite
Yes and we just nodded along and grinned at the idiot.
Wait, you can get high off whipped cream?
@@DraconicDuelist google whippets
@@benshapiro4625 The dog breed?
D.A.R.E : *tells kids about what kinds of drugs there are and how to do them*
"Btw dont do drugs"
OH!! The irony!!
patrick howard- Maybe at the high school level
That was my high school health class was all about drugs and side effects of them. That probably why there were 9 girls pregnant at graduation.
That's like saying they tell you about suicide and how people do it and then tell you not to do it.
@patrick howard it spread a lot of misinformation so i wouldn't think so
DARE convinced me as a kid that heroin would get you addicted the first time you tried, and being a curious and depressed child, it made me feel like I was going to grow up and be a heroin addict. I wasn’t entirely wrong, but it made me feel bleak about my future from a very young age.
The dare officer at my old school got fired for smoking weed with a student and I think that's amazing.
Do or don't do drugs < anything in excess is wrong.
An ex D.A.R.E officer and city police officer, in the town I live in, is now one of our towns biggest, and most trusted drug dealers. Lol
@@JenLyn78 He knows what he's handling.
@@rararasputin8608 yep! I, personally like and respect the s#!t out of the dude!
@@JenLyn78 Brutal, comes with Dare training.
You didn’t mention that the big joke was that all the drug dealers had a DARE bumper sticker on their car as camoflage...
tribudeuno when i was shopping for used cars i saw a Chrysler 300 with 24’ rims and a D.A.R.E sticker. i never thought about this before
Brugh i remember in the old days thats how you would look for dealers
@@_4ui12 The car may have become available when its former owner was arrested and their property seized...
Lol I literally just left the same comment!
Whoops my great grandmother still has the bumper sticker I gave her on her car
A more realistic scenario:
“Yo you want a hit of this?”
“Nah I’m good”
“You sure?”
“Yeah”
“Aight, word. *passes to next guy*”
I think there actually was a anti-drug commercial like that in the late 90's or 00's.
yup, i had a drinking buddy who snorted pills. he offered me some, and i said no. he proceeded to get high anyway. not a big deal. the only person who i have ever seen trying to push drugs the way dare does, is trump that one time he told people to try hydroxycholorquine.
Sunscreen Sniffer me the first few times
Change the last sentence: "Come on, I DARE YOU!"
Yeah. I can't ever recall a scenario in which anyone has ever pressured someone to do drugs in my presence, as a kid or as a grown man. I'm no drug addict, but I've certainly done my share and continue to use harmless cannabis and psychedelics on occasion, I'll offer, and if I'm turned down it's 'okay, man. Anyone else?', which is exactly what everyone else I've ever known has done, too. It's all bullshit.
I've always said if there had been ADDICTION education and not DRUG education, so many people would be much better off.
(Along with teaching emotional management skills. That's a whole norther story tho)
DARE was so effective, that the "DARE Generation" is experiencing the worst opioid epidemic in history
Fair, but most of today's opioid epidemic comes from an entirely different gov't failure. At some point (I forget when exactly) the FDA authorized the use of OxyContin, etc. as a prescription pain-killer. The pharmaceuticals companies then did whatever they could to influence doctors into prescribing it - giving free pens with "OxyCotin" printed on it, for instance - and later advertising directly to patients through TV. Patients would complain about pain, and doctors would just prescribe the stuff, then people would take it at home and become addicted. Meanwhile, in more competent countries, the use of presciption opiods was strictly reserved for inpatient use immediately following surgery. The opioid epidemic is less prevalent in other countries. There are other factors, of course, but this is the most important.
Worst in history? I dunno, China and England fought wars over the English making a majority of the Chinese addicted to opium
Jake King was gonna make this same comment 😭😂
I remember some days of dare... They told us about marijuana, and how it can make you feel happy and see things differently... My mind went to curiosity. How can I see things differently? What's it like? Then they told us sometimes its put in brownies.... It was over for me when I heard I can put some in a brownie!
There’s no single generation being affected my the opioid epidemic. It affects people of all walks of life.
The real sad thing is it was pretty much all scare tactics, no facts.
So... basically a PSA?
@Please Romano thing is, most drugs are hardly damaging at all. Mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin for example have about an eighth the damage potential of alcohol, with virtually no addiction potential, no mortality, no social repercussions, etc. The only thing that can happen is that your thinking can be impaired while tripping, which kinda is the whole point.
The same study has also found alcohol to be around 40% more dangerous overall than heroin, although the most important are worse for heroin, like mortality and crime.
@@Smittel man, you're making me wish I knew a cheap dealer.
Most of the people I know, and myself, tried drugs just to see how much of it was lies after realizing so much of it was misinformation. (mostly weed before it got legal here) Because they didn't want to end up, or look like, the officer doing the presentation. He simply had no idea of what he was talking about. And to put it mildly, that guy was the biggest wimp. I'm surprised he even passed the physical test. And I mean it, even his personality was just weak. On top of that, the officer doing the presentation started crying in front of the group because he got bullied in high-school. It was honestly the most cringe and backlashing thing I've witnessed in my entire life. People trying not to laugh as hard as they could. Even teachers seemed awkward AF during the presentations because of how absurd it was. Quite the opposite of a role model. We often joked about how that guy was probably just there because they wouldn't let him be a real cop. To simply say it was a failure is to be nice about it.
TAV that‘s what PSA’s are though, with some caring to give cold hard facts and some just doing it for a scare tactic.
When I was in high school in the mid 90's, the stoners all wore DARE shirts lol
We still do.
Oh the irony
T REX lmfaooo
Like the Virginity Rocks shirts, I love that
@@jgallardo7344 I remember that it absolutely was for the irony. I know of people that still do on occasion.
My favorite part of DARE was when Nancy promoted it while Ronald was running crack in the inner cities.
1997: “I’ll never do drugs
2019: “Well I’ve never done heroin so that’s a win”
Such success
You should give it a try, D.A.R.E. was wrong about all the other drugs, why not heroin?
Same
Relatable.
Just doing weed from time to time, though.
My preferred poisons are cigars, booze and edibles. I'm staying the fuck away from shit like coke, smack and crystal.
@@AlexKS1992 Good for you. I am acid fan myself, but extasy was given to me on New Yera`s Eve- i went insane... And to this day i have scarrs on my cheeks- on the inside, my jaws were clenched so hard...
As for traditional things- moonshine and wódka- but those by now about only things, that keep me alive, and away from killing people i dislike with an axe, so hard to call them "poison"
I think the real underlying issue here is that they never really addressed the mental health issues that cause kids and teens to take drugs in the first place
That is not entirely fair, though. Not everyone who takes drugs is self medicating. Drugs can be used for recreation and there is nothing wrong with it (though I advise to wait until you are an adult).
@@kamilliasaylor1000 I'm not really gonna risk it to be honest, I don't want to become broke just because I got addicted to it.
@@depressedbuttercat5318 Okay? You aren't the only person that exists.
Yeah I had started showing symptoms for bipolar at around 15-16, during a severe manic episode I did so many drugs and never got help until about 3 years ago, even then I still excessively drink and smoke, but just a little. If I had been diagnosed sooner, like the year and half months I had been showing symptoms before my major manic break I wouldn't have had such an issue.
@@kamilliasaylor1000 eh usually taking the risk of trying something so bad for dopamine isn't a great sign. Same with addictions to anything really, even food.
Dare is still at my school. My Dare "Officer" actually taught us how to make stuff like "Purple Drink," how many ways weed and be ingested, and how easy it is to do get alcohol. Really teaching us what not to do huh.
That's why the info I have is not allowed in school
….what's purple drink? I need to know what it is so I can...uh...stay away from it. I also need to know how to make it so I don't accidentally make it. If you could tell me the cheapest place to not buy ingredients, that would be nice, too.
DoctorPorkenfries lean
@@spleens4200I don't know what that is, either. I went to a private school and never had DARE come by to teach me how to use drugs.
@DoctorPorkenfries Lean is the purple drink, cough syrup and soda
I remember my DARE class was suspiciously excited about the sessions. It probably reflected that we got out of real school work for thirty minutes. Then, we watched a movie about teen addicts, given that we were only 10-11 years old.
The biggest mistake was saying marijuana was as bad as harder drugs. Most people are exposed to weed and a lot of people probably thought "well if pot is no big deal maybe its the same with heroin or crack".
I’ve always thought this!! You can’t just equate marijuana to heroine. The association is what makes it a “gateway drug”
@@renemccracken6319 Its above cocaine legally in the US. I actually liked DARE and hated drugs when i was a kid. I hated that my family smoked weed. But I could clearly see they they werent like crack heads and heroin addicts. My parents were a bit lazy but i was glad my dad wasnt a drinker like my friends dad😬.
Or "If these guys think pot is as bad as meth, they obviously don't know what they're talking about."
You know what worked better than DARE at keeping me away from heroin and crack? Growing up in the city and seeing crackheads and dopeheads. When you see them first hand compared to potheads, you notice, there's a big difference.
@@kickballfever If you dont live in the city you could just watch "Requiem for a Dream" Should be required learning in grade school
People who warned me about the evils of Marijuana ended up addicted to opioids.
Lmao too real
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The cop who taught DARE at my school got put in jail for heroin and i think hes dead now
@@blakewarrens3925 OMG where did you go to school....mine became a corrupt sheriff who got into all kinds of trouble over drugs and was on drugs and eventually died in jail because of heart failure by tazing
They should use pot instead of opioids tbh
You keep saying 90s as if I wasn't forced to take DARE in like 2010
Mine was 2015-16
Class of 2014 here, id say thats about right
I got 2016-17
Mack Burwell are you guys really taking DARE or just what you think is dare? Because we do olweus, and they are very different programs.
They definitely still call it DARE. They gave out T-shirts with the logo and everything.
By the time I went to elementary school we never did DARE, but we did this thing called Red Ribbon Week where they gave us these little red bracelets to wear throughout the month of October that would get unravelled after like 2 weeks. They didn't tell us the names of the drugs, but they did just tell us to stay away from them. It was probably about as ineffective as DARE, but I think the effect was more neutral than bad.
Let’s tell all these kids that have never even heard about these drugs what they are, what they look like, how they are used, and why people use them. That will help
In highschool, Narc. Officers literally came to school and showed us step by step how you make them. Not even joking.
Dare officer comes to school and raises a pouch of cocaine: “Alright everyone, what you have in the little pouches I gave you are 15 grams of cocaine. What you’ll want to do is find a flat surface...”
DEAD HAHAHAHA 🤦♀️
D.A.R.E. was the reason I even knew about most drugs
That Guy honest to God, same! I was like, there’s another thing ppl smoke?? O.o
Facts lmaooo
Maryse Bowen at least it worked for someone
The only thing I knew before that was that cigarettes and beer were bad 😂
lol. Same. But I was never tempted by that stuff to begin with because my Mom would have KILLED me if I ever tried. Besides, I had books to jump into to escape reality so drugs were totally unnecessary.
DARE gave me a huge amount of childhood anxiety by convincing me when I was 8 that my dad, who smoked cigarettes, would definitely be dead before I was 10. I thought about him dying constantly, and ruminated on how awful it would be to never see him again, what I would do when I found out he died, etc. Luckily I discovered that alcohol really calmed me down. #thanksDARE
Hahahahah
Just a little alcohol makes almost all social anxiety go away.
This story took a turn in the end, and I love it.
Lol
Ash Watkins same with my mom
If you wanna convince kids, you gotta think like a kid. Introducing them to new things and telling them not to do it will only make them more curious to try it out. Like some comments suggested, having recovering addicts to talk to them about their experience would be much more effective since children are easier to persuade using pathos
Now 20 years later, 1/5th of the country has legalized or decriminalized marijuana.
4/20th of the country
@Abigail Slaughter Your now my new paralegal.
More like 1/2 or 2/3
@Abigail Slaughter You will be protected now by Republican guards and a defense dome of SCUDS.
26/50 states that more than half bud
I was actually really into DARE until they refused to let me graduate because I forgot to do a handful of workbook pages. I was angry for decades over this.
Because if there's one thing that'll keep kids from not using drugs, it's doing workbook pages. Imagine all the kids who became drug addicts only because they couldn't graduate DARE...
I am sorry that happened to you Brian; D.A.R.E. was a participation required class to graduate.
Your D.A.R.E. officer should have sat down with you individually, and helped you through all of the workbook. You should have been given lots of chances finish your workbook -
The only students that ever should have been at risk for failing, should have been the ones who outright *refused* to complete their work, and/or *refused* to participate in class, or were kicked out for disciplinary reasons.
I can not recall *ever* having failed a student... Ever.
Again Brian - I am sorry that happened to you, it should not have.
I hope that failure, by your D.A.R.E. Officer, did not ruin your entire outlook on Police in general.
Did you get revenge by going out and doing drugs?
Did you start smoking crack to get even?
So you’ve been tweaking ever since?
There was a kid in my class when I went through D.A.R.E who was a pretty talented artist he made a 20+ page comic about how Daren the lion was a contract killer
Do you have any of the pages?! by any chance?!
Damn my guy, that needs to be archived somewhere
i'd read it
So that's that stupid lions name
I'd pay to read that.
I always thought that having former addicts (preferably someone in their late teens to early 20s who is not much older than classroom age themselves) come to classrooms to discuss how much doing drugs ruined their lives and the consequences of the choice they made not only has disastrous impacts upon not only their self-respect but also their loved ones, friends, job, income, and health. I think that would make a much, MUCH bigger impact upon warning kids about the dangers and consequences of drug use than a middle -aged police officer (who kids cannot relate to at all) making threats of arrest if one bought (before it was legalized in most states) a joint .
DARE: “your peers are going to be offering you drugs all the time”
Pharmaceutical companies: “hold my capsule”
@Bob Smith I guess all the people hooked on loratabs and oxycontin are ok because the doctor said it was ok.
Nevermind that in states where weed has been legalized dependance on prescriptions and arrests for illicit trade for those narcotics dropped.
Coupled with life trauma and mental illness BOOM! You got an addict.
@Bob Smith It's not like there's people out there faking illnesses and disorders and abusing prescriptions, or anything. Who would even *think* to do such a thing?
::Slow Clap:: You win the internet. ::Slow Clap::
foodank_atr I'm decently certain that those have only dropped because it's easier to veg out on weed being readily available. Not solving anything just swapping ine for another and saying it's a win because one is now fully legal
My vivid DARE memory came in the form of an officer administering a pair of "drunk goggles" to the class and having us perform a field sobriety test. Once I tried them on, I couldn't keep myself from thinking, "These drunk goggles are the coolest things I've ever seen..."
My Dare memory was also with the "drunk goggles". We probably did a field sobriety test too, but I don't remember. I was in 5th Grade in 2010-2011, so I was 10 or 11, and I can still remember having to wear those goggles and walk around. I walked right into a wall and fell down hard. 😅 That scared me and I hated it. It worked for me and I've sincerely never done any drugs and don't have any desire to. I'm glad that I'm not the only one who's school did the googles. Even before I walked into a wall, I was already feeling dizzy and nervous with them on.
@@themidnightdreamer1702 I did the goggles, too. I promise alcohol is nothing like that.
And when you actually try to drink alcohol to get that same effect, it doesn't happen. Misleading.
I loved the goggles! I was able to walk straight though, so I was sad I didn't have the experience that my friends had. I'd completely forgotten until I read your comment
lol :)
I'm sure if you said " drugs = gay" to a kid in the 80's, they would stay away from drugs forever
😂i swear
Fax and if they kept teaching that from then on we’d grow up thinking only gays do drugs😂😂
You aren’t lying, it would have been a better strategy.
Reminds me of a skit from The Onion about the CDC running an anti-smoking campaing that told kids that smoking is gay
@@voctur LMAOOO
Any other GENx here who learned about drugs from DARE? I starting smoking weed thanks to DARE. A couple other things I tried too, but ended up vibing with cannabis. They were like, “hi kids. This will all make you feel great for a minute, and then your life will suck!” And we 80’s kids were like, WE WANNA FEEL GOOD FOR A MINUTE! So, I’d like to thank DARE for teaching me how good cannabis is for my body over the years and to also check in with the frying pan. My brain on pot is fantastic! I’ve written books, made amazing art, started my own company. I wonder where all the briefcases are now? 🤔
It sure didn't... But the hilarity of it all is that the only people you still see wearing DARE shirts are massive stoners. Kinda like a big "f-u" to ol' Daren.
I used to use my dare shirt as my weed smoking clothes. Out of the belief that weed wasn't an altered substance and not a drug. So you are definitely right.
Garrett Cloud Man! thinking pot was perfectly safe got me into alot of mental trouble. These programs should be taught by the middle of the road fucked by drugs guy but it's only ever the worst addicts who are so fucking stupid that kids find it unlikely to happen to them. Pot does infact make predisposed people who would otherwise have lived their whole lives healthy are more likely to develop mental illness. Not even psychedelics have been proven to, science says it's coincidental but switches it on around the general time in their 20s along with mentally ill people finding expanding their minds more appealing.
@@colin9786
When I became a D.A.R.E. officer in 2006, we had to carry around a Daren Lion stuffed toy during class - kind of like the old "egg baby" thing in high school, have to keep it safe, don't let other teams steal it, etc. (If you went through D.A.R.E. during that 2004-2009 era, you probably remember the stuffed Daren being passed around the classroom.)
My team (of cops) - mind you, most of us were in our mid-20s, not much older than the kids themselves - well, my team took Daren the Dare Lion "out" for a night on the town.
We took Daren to dinner, then the bar, then the strip club - we put cigarettes in his mouth, and empty bottles and glasses around him, and took pictures...
Remember, we are *supposed* to be taking care of Daren, like a baby - *not* taking Daren to the Alaska Bush Company! 😁
*After* we finished the training and got our certificates, we later sent those pictures to our instructors - that was pretty hilarious in and of itself.
So - yep, while you guys were making fun at the program by wearing the shirts while smokin', we young cops were pretty much doing the exact same thing, except with alcohol and cigarettes!
Being a D.A.R.E. cop, was by far the best time of my career - whether, in the long run, it did any good or not.
It must have done at least something good, since some of my students still talk to me, almost two decades later.
And our parents. I still see a lot of middle aged people wearing them all over the place.
My mom is one of them.
@@_ksm0922 Well... it was a "thing" for GenX and ultimately, Millennials(aka the 9/11-Gen)... I don't know an exact parallel for GenZ.
DARE didn’t keep me from drugs, but watching family and friends die from them did. Funerals are pretty sobering when you figure “oh, they did drugs, now they’re dead. That could be me....”.
That was me, too. My mom thankfully is still alive, but she's barely alive. She has no hint of life outside of yelling and screaming.
Watching your older relatives get fucked up because they kept using drugs is one of the best ways of teaching a teenager that drugs are bad.
@Taerl
Of course. I was just using myself as an example. I have have other people in my family who has watched their own son use drugs and succumb to mental illnesses and ruining his own promising life.
Drugs are disgusting and there should be capital punishment on the drug lords that sell it.
Helel Alexander dude what the frick. This is a sentimental post. Please keep your name calling somewhere else because this person has gone through things.
Izuku
It’s just a troll, don’t take it to seriously. It happens a lot. Just forget about that comment.
My most memorable moment from D.A.R.E.?
Being kicked out of the program because the Teacher in charge heard that my dad was in rehab. What a great way to teach a lesson on staying away from drugs!
"Oh, your Dad does drugs? I don't think this program is right for you."
Sounds about right for DARE, I wish I had a story to add here...but I can't recall DARE, just that I went through it.
What? Kicking out the person who needed the information the most smh
Thats fucked up
@@WolfkinNorthclaw me to
@Evil Demon Read it again.
I was a Police officer in the 1990's and I was asked to become a D.A.R.E. officer. The D.A.R.E. "school" was a farce. We had to write about the course every day. They wanted us to praise the course, but several officers, me included, wrote about how bad the training was. One of the D.A.R.E. instructors asked why I didn't like the course. I told her it was better designed for kindergartners. I was , fortunately, kicked out of the course.
D.A.R.E was literally free advertisement for the drug industry I’m not going to do drugs but D.A.R.E is the entire reason I ever considered trying drugs
Like they give us some goggles that kind of simulate being drunk and it was fun af
@@Himmyjewett yeah
Interestingly, most of the major anti smoking commercials on TV are funded by tobacco companies. The are made to make them, but they can sometimes help the sales of tobacco products just by showing a cigarette or vape and causing an addictive associated reaction.
@@SunnysinisterSD wow cool
These school programs always gloss over one of the most important details of going through your teenage years:
Snitches get stitches.
Or get left in ditches
I agree. That is LITERALLY the most important thing to know in junior high and some of high school and even some of college haha
Or end up as bitches.
lol it's so hard to raise kids... my approach was break it down to acceptable snitching and unacceptable snitching because I'm blunt af
unacceptable snitching: "dont tattle on your classmates, you wont have any friends plus it annoys adults... as you get older you'll find that snitches get stitches"
acceptable snitching: "if someones hurting you, especially an adult, snitch on that bitch to me and I'll handle it from there"
It's just that it bred a generation of snitches, just take a look at some of the hit movies and the news back then... Goodfellas, written by a glorified snitch, Sammy "the bull" Gravano... Actually his nickname should have been Sammy "the snitch" Gravano, it's fucking pathetic, he even took himself out of witness protection because he knew there's nobody around that was going to do a damn thing to him so if you actually believe that saying although once had meaning, ever since the '80's and on means absolutely nothing to this day!!! Just look at that little douche Takashi six-nine.... Do you actually think anything will happen to the little fuck??? Please don't tell me you think that there's any honor left in the wannabe bitches that pass for gangsters from the 80's to today... Also I am aware of the other saying that "there's no honor among thieves" but there actually used to be, lol
The only reason anyone listened in my D.A.R.E. class was because the officer who taught us got half his hand shot off earlier in his career & we all thought he was cool
H Whatever i still think that’s pretty cool. how many fingers did he have
Mine brought an actual cocaine grinder, THAT STILL HAD COCAINE IN IT, dude was awesome
I remember going through all the D.A.R.E. stuff in elementary school. One Xmas visiting my grandparents, my grandmother left and said she was going to the drug store. I bawled my eyes out and begged her not to go and when she left I couldn't stop crying. My parents were so confused and when I could breath again I cried "GRANDMA'S GOING TO DIE" they asked why I thought that and I said "GRANDMAS DOING DRUGS!" After they put together what I meant they tried to explain not all drugs are bad... so yea, DARE failed...
A dare officer said "doing drugs is as stupid as believing in santa." I still believed in santa. Officer whatshisface ruined my childhood and I will never forgive him
Amanda Berg wow acab
WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT TO CHILDREN
@@FormCreator RIGHT!?
holy balls. That's awful!!
Amanda Berg Santa was never real. You should be mad at your parents for lying to you.
“75% of the country”
Doesn’t put a dot on Florida*
*Nice*
Same for Michigan.
Florida does not need D.A.R.E they have floridaman. He was equally effective for different reasons
Florida Man knows what's up
Which is weird because I live there and we had the program so?? But honestly its Florida they shouldn't have even bothered.
Floridian here. We had D.A.R.E. 75 percent of people I know smoke weed at the very least.
Most memorable DARE moment: A Sheriff's deputy came to my school and put several of us in handcuffs for not paying complete attention during his class, I guess in an attempt to scare us straight or something. The adults in the room said and did nothing. Yeah, drugs are bad, not weirdos who think it's okay to put a bunch of kids in handcuffs over and over.
hahahah, that sounds like a scene from Super Troopers
@@jayr1757 lmao it does. I never thought of it that way before. Thank you.
Man this police brutality epidemic goes back way further than we thought smh /s
For real that's nuts though. Reminds me of the time my school tried to teach us all about the Holocaust by having the Vice Principal, several teachers, and some volunteer students come in, speak aggressive German, and pretend to take students out of the class to send to "concentration camps". We were learning about Anne Frank's diary, ffs. Did we really need that experience?
@@ThePhantomSafetyPin And these were the same people who readily reminded us that we were supposed to respect our elders.
All the while, the troopers never once talked about how grown ups can be addicted to opiates.
I was a kid when dare was being slowly pushed out and replaced by other types of education. We had these movies that would play in the gym and they were mostly scare tactics. They totally didn’t work. I knew many people my age who were drinking and it got to a point where groups of kids throwing parties was a weekly occurrence. These programs really don’t work and I’m glad to see for the new generation they have a much better program. If anything I learned to avoid drug abuse from seeing friends and family destroy themselves. One of my dearest friends became a meth addict. So if anything just really seeing it happen to other people is a good deterrence. I’m glad to see that things have changed.
My folks always said D.A.R.E. was like telling someone about Disneyland and then telling them all the rides were closed.
OH FUCK YOU'RE RIGHT-
Local Gov.: "You can get enough buses for your school system so that all of the kids get enough sleep, or you can get an ineffective anti drug program with a lion mascot."
The people: "Did you say lion mascot!?"
daniel noyes some people wake up early to get to school because the bus doesn’t come get them
@@Ixiety and some people get on the school bus and it caches on fire due to the age of the bus. Not to mention the cost of maintenance on the busses is higher then buying a new bus.
“We can give kids nutritious lunches, boost the arts programs, renovate the discipline programs to follow a more positive reinforcement model, fund safety/security guards and weapons detection at the entrances, buy the kids more books, fund school supplies for needier kids, pay for useful programs like gardening and sewing and cooking that provide youth with powerful life skills in a fun and safe environment, fund after school programs for kids that don’t have a safe or stimulating home to go to after class, provide options for poor kids like washing machines for those who can’t afford to have clean clothes......or have a lion mascot.”
“LION 👏🏽 MASCOT 👏🏽 “
I did a marijuana once and now I'm dead.
Sorry, just keeping it R. E. A. L.
Really
Extraordinary
Amazing
Lie
@@MutatedIce1 I like your style
@@MutatedIce1 he could be in Colorado where it is legal
@Mason Wyberg true
Instead of just saying drugs are bad they should tell you why they’re bad for example studies show that marijuana can cause memory loss if you’re under the age of 25, also if you smoke it you’re obviously effing over your lungs, but instead they just say it’s bad
As a teen who lived through the 80s, it wasn't D.A.R.E. that kept me away from drugs, smoking and alcohol; it was personal observation of family members and friends who were deeply into drugs, smoking and alcohol, and how it impacted them.
DARE kind of reiterated what I was seeing at my house too .
They still do D.A.R.E. at my old elementary school. Every year, the 5th graders get to look forward to *_RESISTING DRUGS AND VIOLENCE!_*
But here's the best part: our district doesn't trust our ability to *_RESIST DRUGS AND VIOLENCE,_* so in 7th grade they required us to take a quarter-long class that's basically D.A.R.E. 2. But it doesn't stop there. The next year, in 8th grade, they made us do a bunch of things from a book called "Life Skills" (also a D.A.R.E. sequel) during history class. Our D.A.R.E. journey finally came to an end when, once again, they made us do a bunch of things from the Life Skills book, also during history class.
To prove that all of that "education" worked, last week, there were 25 people suspended for juuling in the bathrooms (in 1 day). Our school is going to get a visit from the drug-sniffing dogs sometime this week to try to find the people storing weed in their lockers.
*_I love public school._*
My K-8 charter school with a gifted program did the same thing. Posters everywhere for DARE and a required class with a Life Skills workbook. We even had to act out scenes where one kid goes "Hey man, I have cigarettes. Do you want one?"
"No. Drugs are bad."
"You aren't cool if you don't try one."
"Oh, no! I need to run away and tell my parents!"
Literally no one wanted to do the roleplaying parts, so the "special guest teacher" had to threaten to pull popsicle stickd with our names on it. Then there would be 10 seconds where she glares at us until someone breaks and volunteers.
That was middle school and high school right there with the drug dog. I'm shocked the cops never searched me. But the security staff just love to tell me get on the wall and search my backpack and pockets and locker.
@Pikachu Archives Man, I remember the D.A.R.E. program back in the late 2000s.
Yeah, my school still does dare, and it led to one of my classmates trying a vape just because he found out all about it in school.
My school still does it
People hated drugs in the 80s, but they sure loved cocaine.
The fk they did.
We really like marijuana and mushrooms too!!
Lala they just loved the smelle
Lala OOF
Lala it was nose candy
After seeing my maths teacher do a flawless walrus impression by coughing after smoking for 30 year's i decided that smoking wasn't worth it.
Lmao
Word. Edibles are the way to go.
@@dinoraha1041 I didn't know you could make tobacco edibles?
@@holyravioli5795 you never heard of dipping , snuf, snus,
@@lu-dx6oh Bruh your not meant to eat dipping tobacco, snuf or snus.
I was a law enforcement officer for 28 years. 10 of those years I was teaching D.A.R.E.. It was a smaller community and I truly enjoyed teaching. For years after I would have young people come up to me and tell me their stories. Every one of them thanked me for giving them the information about drugs and they resisted them. So D.A.R.E. was not a complete failure!
I joined DARE in fall 2011 .Daryl Gates had just died and the program was still being run by people he had personally selected . I was proud to be a one of the ones who dared to be a DARE ( anti-drug ) . But I have to say that the program has stopped being the inspiration it was and needs an upgrade .
I also hate this hype-filled video .
It's as useless as it says DARE is .
Agreed . DARE was not a complete failure .
@@v.dargain1678 Graduated from DARE in May of 1994. It worked for me.
A week before my DARE “Graduation” in 5th grade, the officer who taught us got busted for Drug Possession & Domestic Violence. Lol
My D.A.R.E. cop's son was one of the most notorious drug-users at my old high school.
Damn the irony
welcome to America :)
😂
It's a demonstration 😂
There’s an overwhelmingly 0 strangers that ever offered me drugs.
Same, but i have been approached by strangers wanting to buy drugs off me before
Uriel Same
Strangers? What about friends? They're much more insidious.
We can't all be lucky.
I cant say the same my guy
me in middle school during the D.A.R.E program: "I'm never going to do drugs or drink alcohol!"
me at 16: *smokes a gram of weed out of a water bottle bong before thanksgiving dinner*
GOD ME
Sounds very healthy!
LMAO
Lol. Me too
Same except with psychedelics.
When you got cops telling kids to say no to drugs but they failed to protect kids from school shooters. Just shows how pathetic America has gotten since the 1980s
"Almost as if teenage drug use is a symptom of being a complicated, growing, changing person trying to fit in to a society of insecure relentlessly cool teenagers, and not the cause of all their problems." Yeah. Almost.
Who could have guessed
16th birthday is coming up, gonna put on my dare shirt while I drink a cocktail.
Yes it's legal with parent permission in the house
@@apolloandwarrior_3229 edgy
Yet in Japan and several other eastern societies drug use was virtually unknown in the 80s/90s.
@@mccloaker That's because they didn't have DARE to teach the kids about what drugs to try.
Dare was designed to get kids educated enough about drugs to rat out their own parents unknowingly
Sounds about right, as well as their neighbors.
the entire education system of this country, teaches our children too snitch on their parents.
even the cable company came to my daughter's school and told her about stealing cable.
good for her she would cut her tongue out before she would rat on anyone 🥰
lmfao
That was my most memorable thing about the program. I never saw my parents get high but it still struck me as a weird thing to do, at 10 years old!
I remember when I was 15 I was arrested by my former DARE officer for well, smoking pot and skipping school (it’s a bit more complicated than that but just to keep it short.). I was with a friend when I got arrested. Arrested him too. On the way to the juvi facility I asked him, “Officer ****** remember us??? We were in your DARE classes!” He asked us, “didn’t I teach you anything?” I responded, “you didn’t tell us drugs felt so good!” He laughed.
that'S one of the reason programs like dare fail. They actually just demonize drugs, they don't explain why people take them.
Did you get your record scrubbed?
@@Razor-gx2dq I did not. I asked a lawyer friend last year if I could pay him to get it filed to get it scrubbed. He told me he could, but the cost outweighs the benefits since it’s a sealed juvenile record. I’d say he’s right. It’s never come up on any employment background check I’ve had to take.
I think I remember he told me the only ones who could see it would be a federal employment background check, as in if I wanted to work for a federal agency.
@@mikes.8189 even the military didn’t find out about my arrest for marijuana possession!
@@mikes.8189 been in for 2 years now
0:40 Little to no **POSITIVE** effect on teens. They still did WAY more drugs than non-D.A.R.E. kids.
Sgt Rapp was my DARE officer, I've known her since kindergarten. She's a lovely woman & I'm currently baked.
Me too! Hahahahaaaa
Mine too! In fortville, IN 🥴
I'm in a suburban area in Dallas texas & officer REED was out DARE rep. He was a pretty cool guy. Wonder what happened to him.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ironically the most valid point and probably most effective point DARE ever made was how expensive drugs are. Like hey, you wanna get into a habit with diminishing returns and has a short good experience possibly followed by long bad experiences that will require you to spend more and more money to feel good?
Yes please
That’s the best part!
The thing is that these programs act like people are offering you free drugs around every corner. I've been in high school in a pretty weed heavy town and no one has offered me anything. And they made it seem like Weed, which is about as harmful as a cigarette, was on the same level as meth in danger. So when a kid tried weed in college, and didn't die instantly, they'd assume nothing was as bad as they were told and try other things out to see what it was like.
Not gonna lie I didn't pay for my weed at all for the first year. It really depends on what friends you have and stuff. If you end up with the drug using kind of friends it happens. Unless they are selfish. Your friends must have been selfish.
I paid them back for the weed now cuz I feel bad. Weed ain't expensive though so it's no big deal.
ironically cigarettes are extremely harmful. one of the most harmful and addictive in fact. teenagers just have a ahrd time understanding future consequences because they are wired for immediate results
While I'm not going to deny most of what your said, weed is not as bad as cigarettes. Cigarettes have so many more chemical compounds in them before and after ignition than just weed does. I'm not saying weed doesn't have bad stuff in it, I'm just saying it's not as bad as cigarettes. Nicotine being a prime example :)
🤣 yes, I also saw that episode of South Park.
Jackson Jones I would disagree, drugs were always available from friends for free, even today, (weed, alcohol, Mushrooms, pill, meth, and Cocaine) lot to do with friends older siblings, or parents. I would say I’ve only seen two or three people in my life who absolutely stayed way from all the above, and they are some of the most successful people I know, own property, multiple cars paid off (more that two) have a retirement and have only one spouse (no divorce) multiple children (from same spouse) a collage fund set up for kids, excellent jobs (110k a year minimum, bank manager and district managers for big box retailers or store managers) but I’ve never meet someone who does any type of drugs who can say that have all those check marks, and even then we still haven’t talked about the effect that Christianity has also had for some of these people too. Any way, I hope I can get on their status. I’m glad I’ve avoided drugs because of the uselessness that it does for your life.
I graduated from D.A.R.E. in 1993 and I still remember my D.A.R.E. officer after 30 years. He was so cool!
DARE was so pushed into my head in the late 90's and early 2000's that when I had my first encounter with ANY type of drug at the age of 13, I cried so hard in front of the other kids because I was s scared. I'm still embarrassed of it today.
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I'm sorry, that really is funny.
Not nearly enough 17 year olds wearing leather jackets and aviators have asked me if I wanted free drugs
Not going to lie, this program made me weary of all men in hoodies wearing sunglasses leaning against buildings...especially on corners or alley ways. But since they only stayed in the shadows they were easy to avoid.
Ikr?? They lied to me.
Man, my drug dealer buddy said they cost money
Dare taught me what the diffrent drugs where, were I could likely find them, and how much they should cost lol
You should learn the difference between "where" and"were"..
@MASLIN BRUNER you are right.. why does portraying yourself as intelligent and gaining knowledge matter...
@MASLIN BRUNER Fair enough.. but maybe he looked up the definition and spelling and is better now for it
@MASLIN BRUNER he or she
@@freedomseedplanter5987 Well, I guess DARE was right... See what drugs do to you, kids? Eggs on a frying pan! Yikes!