A similar scenario happened to me when I was 36, I volunteered for a haunted house and all the pizza was gone by the time they released me (late) from my position. Still pissed off.
my most vivid memory from D.A.R.E. is me writing a strongly worded letter in the packet that we had to fill out, because part of the packet was about “hanging out with the right crowd” and it said that kids whose parents were incarcerated were likely to be incarcerated themselves and not to hang out with them. my dad was incarcerated, and i did not take kindly to being told that i was basically destined to go to prison and unworthy of friendship. 😐
Holy shit, man! That's awful. To address the edit to this comment: I don't know how RUclips screwed up and put my "😂😂😂" comment here, but this is NOT the comment I was replying to.
There is an ad in new Zealand about smoking where a guy smokes for years and then his dog gets lung cancer from the second hand smoke and has to be put down and that is the most affective anti smoking campaign I’ve ever seen
At my school DARE said "kids don't huff paint and glue to get high" and half the kids in my grade were like "you can huff paint and glue to get high?" so you can imagine how that went. The art teacher had to keep all the rubber cement in a locked cabinet.
@@tacticallemon7518i learned that by being in an enclosed space(not really, garage with the door wide open) and using a can of spray paint. I finished up and walked outside to realize I was walking like a drunk
It’s the rat park theory. When rats were given things to do-not just basic needs like food and water but games, special little treats, companionship, etc-they turned down the drugs. Sometimes they tried them, but the other stuff was more rewarding than the drugs. The rats alone in a bare cage with nothing but the bare necessities to keep them living did the drugs. So actually giving the kids more pizza to keep them off drugs isn’t far off.
@@driverjayneHas it though? The majority of heavy drug users are in situations where for whatever reason they aren't getting the fulfillment they need. Drugs trigger the hormones that you produce when you are happy, excited, calm, depending on what drug. The main reason people seek out something that will trigger those hormones is when they have difficulty producing them naturally
My favorite DARE related memory is that in the five years between my brother taking DARE and me taking DARE, they had to replace the officer who ran the program because the original officer was arrested for selling drugs to kids.
I remember when my dad told me to ignore everything they told me about weed in DARE because it was “paranoid bullshit”. He told me to worry more about painkillers and cocaine. They didn’t tell us about cocaine so I had to ask dad what cocaine was.
DARE came to my school once. I started sobbing loudly because they said “anybody who smokes dies.” My parents were smokers, so 7 year old me was pretty upset about police officers telling me my parents were going to die. A teacher had to pull me aside and had to tell me that my parents were most likely not going to die anytime soon because I would not stop crying
The same thing happened to me. Maybe thats part pf whats wrong with our generation. Outside people coming in saying our source of life would be gone because of a cig.
Damn. Maybe he was yelling becuase he knew he was hooked (herion/meth) and deep down when he looked into all your little shiney eyes he probably really felt his additction deep in his gut. Probably felt the need to yell as if it would work and keep you guys away from that shit. Trippy
They had us all convinced that it would be so hard to reject drugs, like our friends were going to pin us down and shove the joints into our mouths. In reality, this was the conversation: "You want a hit?" "Nah, no thanks." "Okay."
Me before DARE: “Weed is what my dad pulls in the yard!” Me after DARE: *knows all slang terms, average price, immediate effects, side effects, and history of all drugs*
Oh yes, real drug education, like how weed kills brain cells and makes you want crack somehow, or how cocaine makes you an addict from snorting it one time.
We didn’t have Dare. We had this thing called “Dude, Be Nice” and it was an anti bullying thing. The students literally made fun of it so much that they stopped making us do it after the first semester
I had the best anti-drug talk from my parents. “If you manage to get ahold of anything, we’ll do them with you”. Everything is lame as a teenager, when you parents want to do it with you.
My husband plans on confiscating my children’s pot (if they smoke) and getting them to roll joints then smoking with them and critiquing them on their rolling skills and their weed choices.
@@tegantalks9612DAMN! The double whammy of not only “parents wanting to do it with you making it instantly uncool” but also the “your lame parents are better at this than you.” Lmao
@@meredithmitchell8921 his friend’s dad did it to his friend 20 years ago and he’s been looking forward to the day he could do it with his own children ever since because he thought it was hilarious.
I know for a fact this isn't true. I have tried and it never works. Also when I finally do find someone on a street corner the drugs are never as awesome as they promised. 😿 🧡🦇
DARE made me think that my entire future would be filled with people offering me FREE drugs and I've lived in a perpetual state of disappointment since then.
@@sincerityiscary yeah, all the weed has those nasty things in them now. That needs to be the narrative now that people don't buy the idea that it kills brain cells anymore.
The only thing that my local DARE program contributed to my community was inspiring the guidance councillor in my school to attempt to invent a similar program about suicide prevention and teaching kids about mental health, developmental disabilities, etc. It was REALLY good, and despite a few flaws it was very well thought out, and she was able to get other schools and psychologists in the region on board. Unfortunately, though it ended up ultimately failing because she couldn’t get any funding to produce programming materials for use in other parts of the province. :(
I love how the “nonsense” conversation was actually just a normal boring conversation about her painting her room but they just pretended to sound high when they said it so it would sound dumb
dude when a cop came to my school, they were like “yeah, being tazed hurts, and doing drugs messes up your brain, and being arrested sucks” then proceeded to explain that when she was a prison gaurd, the prisoners were actually pretty cool, and most respected the rules of the prison and some were actually really nice, and she literally said one of her favorite people ever was a prisoner arrested for drugs. like, wtf man.
I’m a 25 year old heroin addict. My older brothers used drugs, my mum is an alcoholic, had a nice mix of trauma and fights and experiences that fueled my mental health problems and led to tons of more drug use. And lemme just say, of the dozens of different users I’ve met in different situations, I haven’t met one “bad” person. I met a lot of damaged and lost people who did shitty things under the influence of drugs or alcohol. But above all, we who abuse drugs are scared, underdeveloped, and simply are trying our best to get through day by day.
@@meowntown69 It isn’t just punishing overzealously. The 13th amendment specifically allows involuntary servitude for people in prison. The prison industrial complex needs minor crimes to carry jail time so they can get their supply of not technically slaves. There’s a lot of money in this, and that means lobbyists making sure there’s always enough prisoners to meet demand.
As someone who gained a lifetime appreciation for reading books thanks to my school bribing me with a free full pan pizza every so often for keeping up on my reading, _you might have a point about that pizza slice._
The way my school did it is we had an assembly made from an ex heroin addict and he told us his life story(In seventh grade) . How even though drugs make you feel good then the ability to feel good starts to go away in other ways and you become addicted and sick and in horrible condition. He told us after selling drugs and doing them got him in horrible shape and almost into prison. He had gotten arrested but he went to rehab and turned his life around and now helps inform kids and make sure they don’t get into the place he did. I think it was very affective and two kids actually cried. I think they should do it a way like that in every school. They even gave out pamphlets of places to go or numbers to text or call if you or your family needs help.
Man, all my school got was some lame ass christian rock band and the lead singer basically gave a sermon about how he killed some people while drunk driving. Then there was a table off to the side of the gym for "general emotional help" but it was just a jesus loves you become saved bullshit kinda thing. I think a couple kids cried there as well and went to the table. Crazy thing, public school too.
Lusty Argonian Maid I live in new jersey and I went to a public school. the guidance officer who is in charge of the assembly’s is so good but not really anything else lol. tbh the assembly’s and drama department and the art classes are the only thing good about the school unless you really love roaches like the ones in out bathroom lol
my big gripe with dare is that they gave me a card when i graduated and swore ON THE BIBLE to me that I can use it to get a free small soda from mcdonalds for the REST OF MY LIFE and those fucking CHEAP CARNIES at mcdonalds started denying my card when I was 25. Thats fine. I guess I'll just go do drugs now since everything is a lie.
There was a McDonalds advert for a coffee cup that gave free coffee for life decades ago, saw some guy using his still afew years back… I think u got jipped bro
Bruh the officer that taught dare to us promised us a HUGE party. The “party” was literally just people in the cafeteria handing out one slice of cake per person and we had shitty lemonade too.
8:04 that conversation is like fully coherent. She wants to paint her room, doesn’t know if some third person will like that, but that her parents are okay with it.
the only things that make that conversation sound incoherent are that they dont really specify everything in their sentences, theyre mumbling/trailing off a bit, and the one guy needed to clarify "blue?" this is just a conversation i would have with my adhd besties
I remember the D.A.R.E. Program back in 5th grade in 1996. We were 100% clueless on drugs. They came in and taught us the names of all the drugs, the neighborhoods where to find the drugs and the code names to use to get the drugs from the drug dealers and they said “dOn’T dO dRuGs”
That was the same for me and most of my classmates in 1995. Most of the kids I went through dare with do drugs, sell drugs or have died from drugs! Dare was a dumpster fire that did more harm than good in my town! And the fact you had to go to a doughnut shop to get a cop to come to your school... I just love it!
I have been offered drugs by a stranger exactly one time in my life. I was about twelve, at the park with a friend, when this guy who looked about twenty came up to us and said, "hey if you got five dollars I'll get y'all high as fuck." I responded, "nah man I'm good," to which he replied, "alright," and then walked away.
It’s kinda weird how they constantly “DONT DO DRUGS DONT DO DRUGS JUST SAY NO!!!!!” What’s the thing that teenagers just love to do? Rebel, just teach them how to be safe
Seriously. Like Johnny Depp told his daughter he knew she was going to be around drugs at some point, so if she ever wanted to try weed he would let her try it under his supervision so she wouldn’t try for the first time in a scenario where she could get hurt.
exactly. instead of telling us what happens if we happen to do them it's mostly just "lindsey did an acid. lindsey died. don't do drugs kids." like??? what good does that do? how did she die? what happened before she died? they don't tell us ANYTHING.
okay but he has a point about the pizza and the arcade games. if kids actually had places they could go locally that they could actually hang out and have fun at without losing all their money or get arrested for loitering, they might feel less like they're stuck at a point in their life where they have no control over anything.
Some kid in a dangerous neighborhood who’s desperate for a sense of safety, security, and identity: interesting point, don’t know why I hadn’t considered it
"Hey, wanna do drugs?" "No" "You sure man? They're fun" "Well I did say no.... and that's my last line of defense, didn't work... soooo... yeah sure gimme that heroin"
I remember going thru the DARE program in 6th grade. we had to sign a paper at the end promising we would never use drugs or alcohol. I wrote "I cannot promise I will never try drugs or alcohol in the future, but I learned some things from your classes." Sure enough age 17 comes around and I'm smoking pot, drinking beer, and doing mushrooms lol. However I can say the program definitely made me think about the consequences of drug abuse more and I never went overboard. So it wasn't a complete failure. We had guest speakers come in and talk about how they ruined their lives due to drug abuse. I don't know if DARE had such speakers nation wide, but it was certainly what impacted me the most.
dude i remember the above the influence commercial where they were cardboard on a couch and acted like it was terrible, but thats me high and its the best.
the issue with dare is that they treated the program like a haunted hayride for weed. i didn't learn anything about the opioid epidemic through dare. i never learned how to spot a drug overdose through the dare program. all i learned is "ooga booga weed will melt your brain"
the overdose point really makes me think about how ineffective dare's curriculum really was. i never had to do dare, afaik it got removed from my elementary school the year i was supposed to start doing it, and what made me decide to claim straightedge is all the secondhand experience i've had with seeing the way drugs affected other people. teaching kids how and when to administer narcan would probably do way more to teach them a lesson than making stuff up to scare them; i feel like i would've been way more likely to start experimenting with drugs and would've gotten myself into far worse things had i been taught a bunch of stupid bullshit that i realized was stupid bullshit
If D.A.R.E. keeps preteens from operating heavy equipment while under the influence, then it’s successful. After the age of 12, you’re on your own, kid.
@@jesuskillmyopps nope. Your system just gets rid of LSD much quicker, but it can show up on a urine drug test in the first 2-4 days after use. It lasts in blood a bit longer, and traces stay in spinal fluid for months.
I had no exposure to drugs before DARE, i literally learned everything i knew about drugs from DARE at that time. After learning that if i did drugs i would literally die, and from the stress of school and being bullied every day i did drugs so i would die. But as you might imagine i didn't die but got insanely high instead, got attacked by a giant psychedelic rainbow number 8, and passed out on the kitchen floor for a couple hours. Only to be roused by my grandmother telling me to do that in my room instead because i was in the way of cooking dinner.
I know this comment is old af but the fact that I literally have a smoking jacket that way I don't reek that is dare and I was toking while reading this made me happy
I remember the biggest stoners in school being the ones who were the most keen on wearing their “drug-free and proud” ribbons during drug abuse prevention week, always with an ironic chuckle.
The dare at my school compaired drugs to 9/11 “hijacking your brains like the terrorists hijacked the planes” it was not effective it was severely made fun of.
Going through the DARE program after my mom having to advocate to keep the school from forcing me onto Ritalin in 1st grade should've felt more surreal, but at the time, it just felt redundant. "Drugs can alter your neurochemistry!" "Yeah, I know. I associate it with a horrifying loss of autonomy. But I guess I'll learn the factoids for a pencil, before braindumping them."
"Hey! Want to give your kids some basic levels of education on a life-saving issue by people who are state employees sworn to protect and serve them anyway? Then go buy fucking doughnuts! Why, you ask? Because fucking Reagan, that's why!"
After one of the big DARE assemblies, a kid in my school went up to a cop and turned in his dad for smoking weed. The kid wasn't in my class, so I never did find out what became of that, but I remember feeling really bad for his dad.
I still remember being a kid in elementary school and being taken out of recess so a police officer could talk about not doing drugs. All i could think about is how much i wanted to go back and play on the swings like bruh, why would they take my recess away ;(
Same, i was playing an intense game of tag with like 30 people and there was like 4 people in my class that were in the tag game and i kept looking outside and seeing all of my friends in other classes play tag and i was :((((
I was waiting for him to sell them the drugs... but no... somehow there is this 12 year old drug dealer who is cool with skater guy tossing her drugs away...
I grew up during dare, everyone thought it was the lamest crap lol I only have fond memories of Scruff Mcgruff because after their presentations, they sent us all home with thick coupon books that had coupons like entire free meals or ice cream at restaurants, no purchase needed. As a poor kid, I always looked forward to them.
Dare was great: taught kids where to get drugs, how they were used, why they were used, what they did, potential side effects, how to identify drug abusers(who will give u drugs). What a stellar idea.
Avery Joyner damn I just saw these comments haha thats cool as shit dude. Its hard not to come off as kind of a cornball in any type of psa bc thats the whole vibe that gets put off in them. Idk if its on purpose or bc the people that do the PSAs are just a bunch of fuckin weirdos. But your dad didnt come across bad at all tho. He still seemed like a pretty cool guy
I was on hefty amounts of painkillers throughout my childhood due to a disability that required annual surgieries, bodycasts and the painful physical therapy that followed them. My sisters school had a DARE program and she asked if painkillers count as drugs. These idiots confirmed but didn't think to specify it was okay if prescribed so she came home and told my mom they HAD to get rid of my drugs. Poor kid said I would ruin my life and get in trouble and was mad at mom for letting this happen. Lmao. My mom tried to clear it up for her. Mom explained I would be in too much pain to function without them so doctors, and in extension police, give an exception with this kind. So she went to school and told the whole class that her little sister does drugs but it was okay and it wouldn't get me in trouble. 😭😭
i went through a similar thing to your sister when i was a kid, except with my moms bipolar disorder medication. i was also too scared to ask if prescription medication was fine, because 1) they told us a swat team would come to our house if our parents did drugs and 2) my mom, not wanting to explain bipolar disorder medication to her 6 year old, referred to them as her "happy pills." i never told my parents this either, i literally never told anyone until like 4 years ago when it popped into my head one day
My sister got upset one day when she was like 5 because our neighbor was taking us to school and was "drinking and driving". She was drinking coffee. They need to be a bit more specific.
oh your sweet little sister, and those stupid little dare instructors. im just glad your sister didnt take it into her own hands and get rid of the herself, im sorry you had to go theough all of that by the way, that must have sucked
they also use about 4 seconds of a Blue October song (X Amount of Words) SPECIFICALLY and LITERALLY about a man abusing drugs as a way to cope with grief, and why that's ok and maybe even good
Take them for a drive through that one section of whatever city is closest to you. I live near Philly, so naturally that one section is Kensington and Allegheny.
I’m from Canada and in grade 8 we did a sex education camp as part of our learning curriculum and they actually brought in 2 former prostitutes who were also former drug addicts to talk to us about what being a sex worked on the streets was like and how dangerous it was. They also talked about being drug users and all that stuff. It was very eye opening.
Very true! Also, bring in sponsors and therapists for ex-junkies that can further explain why people become addicts, the actual sciences around addiction (with anything, not exclusively just drugs/alcohol), what kids can do if they recognize they're becoming harmfully addicted to something, etc. However, that would also mean adults addressing things like systemic societal problems with things like mental health as well as a bunch of other things that encourage people to fall into addictions (including drugs), to begin with. Something extremely hard enough for adults to do with each other, since falling into addictions has always been over-generalized as part of a person's personal failings, and addressing things based off of it being systemic can often be seen as controversial for some people.
ok but like, most people i've met that do any type of drugs, don't pressure people. the people pressuring others are usually insecure. normal people on drugs might ask if you want some(maybe) but generally don't give a shit. most people doing drugs, choose to do it. and I think that was a big part of the problem with dare.
Y'know what people are a lot more pushy about? Alcohol. People who do drugs generally don't care if other people don't do drugs, but if a social drinker finds out that you don't plan on ever drinking (and you don't have like, concrete medical or religious reasons for not doing so) they get _super_ weird about it.
I think a better lesson would be that if your planing to experience it. Know how to do it safely. Tell people how to use it and when not to use it, Where to use it, ect. Maybe I’m saying this because I live in the Netherlands. Where drugs are a lot less taboo. But that caused much less dangerous environment surrounding drugs.
@@eldenemerald7962 It isn't impossible, but it is a common thing people claim. Have you ever actually tried smoking something with regular paper? It isn't as fun or as satisfying as it sounds, and you would probably quit after the first drag.
Dude, this unlocked a memory I was in grade 6 in 2011 and we made an anti-drug PSA and basically it was of 2 kids, giving another kid a bag of sugar which was supposed to be cocaine, and he just basically poured the bag into his mouth and ate it lol. So realistic
Part of the reason I smoke weed all the time now is because my parents have had me on adderall and similar things for so long. Once doctors introduced me to mind altering substances buying my own that works better just makes sense. Thanks, doctors.
"Some big kids do drugs but my mommy and daddy say it's not cool." Because if there's one thing every adolescent wants, it's to be like their parents & not the "older kids". 👌
Depends on how lazy the parents are. I'm guessing mommy and daddy never paid you much attention did they. I know lots of kids who look up to their father as a role model and do everything in their power to emulate them. You must of just had shite parents. Sorry for your luck. But don't feel bad most parent these days are shite so you are normal and you do fit in. I hope that dissuades any social anxiety you might now have because of this comment.
I remember my mom pulled me out of DARE in grade school because I came home like a fire and brimstone preacher about her moderate beer consumption, and some officer came into our class to talk about gang violence and somehow turned it into a brainstorm for 3rd graders to figure how to turn everyday objects into weapons. We ready to go full Battle Royale.
The county constable did the dare program in our district in Texas. He went on to be elected the county sheriff when I was in high school. He went on to be convicted of racketeering, extortion and drug trafficking and distribution.
The DARE instructor at my sister’s school told all the kids how math was made, and unsurprisingly there was a seemingly overnight epidemic of math labs.
7:12 I thought the girl was saying “gay” and not “game”, so when I saw that rainbow green screen monstrosity I thought that was what they were going for
My dare program was pretty good. It was run mostly like a biology class where it was like "if you decide to do drugs, here are the consequences" and then it was about the cancer and other medical issues that can arise from doing drugs. It also focused mostly on cigarettes and alcohol from my memory, but this was all the way back when. It also wasn't shaming if you did, they were always like "hey, if you or someone you know is doing this stuff, talk to a trusted adult, we just want to make sure you're alright". The same issues did seem to arise, kids are gonna be lil'shits regardless of how much you educate them.
That would’ve been cool tbh. I went to several different schools and when they were still going on, they didn’t really give any info, just talked abt how horrible the lives were of the people who did them and said don’t do them. I would like to salute to them with my bong (that I’m currently using) in hand.
In my country, we did this thing called "Happy Harold" (now known as Healthy Harold) where we'd go to some place and learn about health shit from a giraffe puppet. Stuff like how junk food is bad for you, how alcohol and cigarette are bad. Mind you, I was only 6 at the time. He's going on about how cigarettes and smoking cause cancer, and I'm freaking way the hell out because both of my parents were smokers, and I didn't want them to die, so I was paying razor sharp attention. Eventually, he starts to change topic from cigarettes to something else, so I shot my hand up, because I had an important question: "What about bongs?" He stuttered for a few seconds, then moved on without answering me. That really upset me because I wanted to know.
in my experience thats the most effective method of preventing ppl from doing drugs. nothing scared me off coke more than my sister telling me her scary ass experience of doing coke with a guy she barely knew and then getting in a 200km/h car chase with him behind the wheel. nothing scared me off of smoking more than watching my grandma slowly die from lung cancer. nothing scares you straight better than watching someone you love reap the consequences of drugs and alcohol.
They told us in kindergarten that If we did "cheese" we would go to jail do I screamed at my mom that we couldn't have pizza anymore and she was so confused, she was also addicted to heroin.
I started high school in 1983 and so missed out on DARE. We did have someone come into the classroom in 4th grade or so who announced, “Statistically, 3 of you will use drugs,” which I believe was quite a lowball guess, and everybody started calling out specific names of who it was going to be. Then, because it was like 1978, they told us to shut up, and then started listing horrible ways to die. No songs, no parties, no potentially attractive descriptions of what the drugs did, just “This is how this one will kill you” plus various descriptions of marijuana destroying your brain so you would be an unemployable bum, you know, like all those traumatized Vietnam vets around town…Before that, I got the American Heart Association anti-smoking coloring book that had you color smokers’ lungs black and such things. I never had any interest in doing drugs, yay. And then in high school it was AIDS and constant terror of nuclear war. GenX is like this for a reason, guys.
DARE made drugs look so fun. It was like a PSA for drugs. I would see all those lame people telling me not to do drugs and think, "oh, so I should do drugs, right?"
I remember DARE but not much about it. The thing that made a bigger impression on me was a safety day camp thing and they had a whole section on electrical safety. They had a machine that would generate power line voltages and showed what it did to an uncooked hot dog. I was fascinated lol
i've only experienced a dare thing once. nowadays its just drug searches. bringing dogs to school. once during summer school i was sitting next to a dude named alex, we were sitting the farthest from the door. a police lady came in and told us all to leave our bags and leave immediately. alex was the smoothest, he pulled the drugs out of bag and slipped them into his pocket with as little suspicion as possible, it was magical to watch. i miss alex, i wonder where he is. he said i was cool.
local guy Hey there, LISTEN! Give it up before it’s already too late man, I was suffering with this stuff for 2 years straight, and you know what happened? My entire life was almost shattered right in front of my eyes, all of my friends isolated me, my lover dropped me for another person, my health was in a horrible state, and my entire career was ruined just because of smoking fruit rolls, my life is already doing pretty good now, and it broke my heart seeing some other person doing it. Please drop the whole fruit roll smoking before it’s already too late man
At my elementary school we had an afternoon every once in a while where DARE set up a bunch of info booths in front of the school and we all walked around them instead of being in class. The anti-tobacco stuff was good because they had models of what happened to your lungs/mouth but the other drugs were all about just saying no to peer pressure and nothing about any bad consequences of saying yes so there you go
I was on ADHD meds throughout most of my childhood during the 90s so when I started to hear things like "don't do drugs" I would get confused because I actually did drugs and they helped me function. When I brought this up they would always say things like "well you can only take them if a doctor says it's okay". Then I would ask what was the difference between good drugs and bad drugs. I never seemed to get a straight answer other than "they're illegal and you'll get in trouble if you do them". Then I'd do the classic "rabbit hole of why" and they'd find an excuse to move on
Well if they told you they're bad because they're unregulated and they're unregulated because they're bad then I can imagine the whole spiel would crumble pretty quick.
You got confused because you are stupid. You are stupid because you don't pay attention. Your comment is 100% proof. You are so stupid in fact that now someone has tricked you into taking the drugs they sell to solve a discipline issue. So tell me how much do you enjoy being a stupid drug zombie?
Sure lol they cant tell you that your pure amphetamine molecule your taking and actually help you are bad but the one on the street are bad the only differance is that the street one is like taking a shot and the one you got home is like sipping a 12 in 10.
I think people really underestimate what pizza is to a young person.
And goddamn laser tag.
A similar scenario happened to me when I was 36, I volunteered for a haunted house and all the pizza was gone by the time they released me (late) from my position. Still pissed off.
I haven’t gotten into the video yet so I don’t understand the context of this comment, but I agree with you.
yeah pizza is extremely persuasive...for a young person...
Yo Joshua, I feel for you man
I've never seen a DARE shirt worn unironically.
i actually still wear the one they gave me in 5th grade as pjs lmaoooo
You got some weird friend my guy
I have seen many people smoking marijuana and wearing dare shirts
Only when j have nothing to where
my friend wears hers to school when she’s going to do drugs later
I think the green screen man was trying to tell us, “ Don’t do weed. Do acid”
"Who knows? Maybe I'll look like a normal person!"
i think the green screen man was A acid trip
😂🤣
Nah, salvia
@@illegaljumbo8587 he was the energy source for acid. Every time you take acid, a bit of him dies.
Don’t do drugs, or drug man will die.
my most vivid memory from D.A.R.E. is me writing a strongly worded letter in the packet that we had to fill out, because part of the packet was about “hanging out with the right crowd” and it said that kids whose parents were incarcerated were likely to be incarcerated themselves and not to hang out with them. my dad was incarcerated, and i did not take kindly to being told that i was basically destined to go to prison and unworthy of friendship. 😐
Holy shit, man! That's awful.
To address the edit to this comment: I don't know how RUclips screwed up and put my "😂😂😂" comment here, but this is NOT the comment I was replying to.
Tough kid
That’s so disgusting… You shouldn’t judge a child based on their parents
Ironically, the isolation is a high risk factor. So... Good work, dare! It's true bc you made it true
Bruh that's fucking awful
There is an ad in new Zealand about smoking where a guy smokes for years and then his dog gets lung cancer from the second hand smoke and has to be put down and that is the most affective anti smoking campaign I’ve ever seen
that shit scared me into never being near dogs lmao
shit man i gotta quit smoking, it kills dogs! wtf people lol
Years of passive weed smoke, the only thing that can end the immortality of a dog.
Is there anything that new Zealand isn't good at?
someone cool being a global superpower
At my school DARE said "kids don't huff paint and glue to get high" and half the kids in my grade were like "you can huff paint and glue to get high?" so you can imagine how that went. The art teacher had to keep all the rubber cement in a locked cabinet.
😂
i remember getting a questionnaire in 4th or 5th grade about drug use
Similar situation, that’s how i learned glue and paint can get you high
@@tacticallemon7518i learned that by being in an enclosed space(not really, garage with the door wide open) and using a can of spray paint. I finished up and walked outside to realize I was walking like a drunk
yoooo the words "rubber cement" just unlocked a few memories
@@tacticallemon7518high on brain damage 😭😭
"Go to country style donuts and buy the dare bear" sounds like it's a drug deal in itself.
“Go to Country Style Donuts and buy the DARE Bear, open his head up and reach into his chest cavity, to find 4 ounces of pure, uncut, crack-cocaine”
Speaking of donuts, eddy sounds like james from donut media
@@tobytoyota6936 aye thats wassup 😂 ol Pumphrey I can kinda hear it
Oh yea lemme get a pound of that dare bear
It’s the rat park theory. When rats were given things to do-not just basic needs like food and water but games, special little treats, companionship, etc-they turned down the drugs. Sometimes they tried them, but the other stuff was more rewarding than the drugs.
The rats alone in a bare cage with nothing but the bare necessities to keep them living did the drugs.
So actually giving the kids more pizza to keep them off drugs isn’t far off.
I like how you think.
That study has been widely debunked
@@driverjayneHas it though? The majority of heavy drug users are in situations where for whatever reason they aren't getting the fulfillment they need. Drugs trigger the hormones that you produce when you are happy, excited, calm, depending on what drug. The main reason people seek out something that will trigger those hormones is when they have difficulty producing them naturally
@@driverjaynesource?
@dtgnimbus4575 the "criticisms" section of the Wikipedia article, for a start. Plus like five seconds of googling. 🙄
My favorite DARE related memory is that in the five years between my brother taking DARE and me taking DARE, they had to replace the officer who ran the program because the original officer was arrested for selling drugs to kids.
That is a fantastic level of irony I love it.
Oh, the irony.
So he was using the DARE program for networking. Smart thinking.
I remember when my dad told me to ignore everything they told me about weed in DARE because it was “paranoid bullshit”. He told me to worry more about painkillers and cocaine. They didn’t tell us about cocaine so I had to ask dad what cocaine was.
yeah sounds very on brands 🐽
DARE came to my school once. I started sobbing loudly because they said “anybody who smokes dies.” My parents were smokers, so 7 year old me was pretty upset about police officers telling me my parents were going to die. A teacher had to pull me aside and had to tell me that my parents were most likely not going to die anytime soon because I would not stop crying
Are they dead yet?
Well? Are your parents kill?
@hXcFreethinker I meant from the smoking,
Well, that's a bit counterintuitive. Now you've got mixed messages!
The same thing happened to me. Maybe thats part pf whats wrong with our generation. Outside people coming in saying our source of life would be gone because of a cig.
Literally a D.A.R.E instructor yelled at us to not do drugs very violently and 5 months later he died of a drug overdose
How ironic...
Damn. Maybe he was yelling becuase he knew he was hooked (herion/meth) and deep down when he looked into all your little shiney eyes he probably really felt his additction deep in his gut. Probably felt the need to yell as if it would work and keep you guys away from that shit. Trippy
Poetic, isn’t it
@@longsleevedream9228 You stole my line!
Narf Narf 🤫🤫
They had us all convinced that it would be so hard to reject drugs, like our friends were going to pin us down and shove the joints into our mouths. In reality, this was the conversation: "You want a hit?" "Nah, no thanks." "Okay."
EXACTLY LIKE
Honestly, I’ve felt like more people have pressured me to drink as an adult than anyone ever made me feel pressured to do drugs as a teen.
@@tegantalks9612literally, same
nobody's gonna share their fucking stash with you if you don't want it, shits expensive.
I got more pressure from my friends to sell them my prescription drugs that I had to get from the nurse's office than I got to take drugs.
Me before DARE: “Weed is what my dad pulls in the yard!”
Me after DARE: *knows all slang terms, average price, immediate effects, side effects, and history of all drugs*
yup, it was a drug education class pure and simple.
When I did dare they literally told me how to take drugs and what they all did and what areas have them
Oh yes, real drug education, like how weed kills brain cells and makes you want crack somehow, or how cocaine makes you an addict from snorting it one time.
Only seeing the D and E
@ebony b I would assume, but I still haven't seen any proof of that either. That said, probably a bad idea for kids to smoke anything.
Ngl i was so sheltered as a kid that the way i learned that drugs *existed* was through DARE.
oh shit same lmfaoo
Same 😔😔
I knew what drugs were by 4 because I watched a lot of cool shows sorry I meant cop
Same here, I also decided to try drugs because I became curious because of it
Same
We didn’t have Dare. We had this thing called “Dude, Be Nice” and it was an anti bullying thing. The students literally made fun of it so much that they stopped making us do it after the first semester
dude stop being so mean be nice.
They bullied the anti bullying program out of existance.
@@emrahalien2972 bullying rates drop to 0%
I loved that program 🥺maybe it’s cuz I was bullied so much
i had that too!! i actually remember it being pretty okay, but yeah it was gone after one school year
I had the best anti-drug talk from my parents. “If you manage to get ahold of anything, we’ll do them with you”. Everything is lame as a teenager, when you parents want to do it with you.
That would have worked.
My husband plans on confiscating my children’s pot (if they smoke) and getting them to roll joints then smoking with them and critiquing them on their rolling skills and their weed choices.
@@tegantalks9612DAMN! The double whammy of not only “parents wanting to do it with you making it instantly uncool” but also the “your lame parents are better at this than you.” Lmao
@@meredithmitchell8921 his friend’s dad did it to his friend 20 years ago and he’s been looking forward to the day he could do it with his own children ever since because he thought it was hilarious.
You just reminded me of the time the Winona Ryder lookalike stripper I twice slept with smoked weed with my mom, jfc where's the memory bleach
the “don’t do drugs / don’t join gangs” song in the intermission bits has the same energy as the dobre brothers’ “stop that” song
alyssa jade yes!
Yeah, but, unlike the spawn of satan, “stop that”, this song slaps so hard and it’s got a production value like you’ve never SEEN, MY GUY
Stop it
No
I don't like it
It whas honestly kinda catchy
And now its stuck in my head
DARE had kids thinking that every time they walked down the street people would be offering them drugs left and right like it was candy
Well if you lived in SanFran or Detroit that was actually how it was in the 80's lmfao.
That always confused me. You gotta be a real dumbass to just give away weed to kids of all people, that shits not cheap 🤣
I know for a fact this isn't true. I have tried and it never works. Also when I finally do find someone on a street corner the drugs are never as awesome as they promised. 😿
🧡🦇
DARE made me think that my entire future would be filled with people offering me FREE drugs and I've lived in a perpetual state of disappointment since then.
In my 30 years on this planet i've never met some rando come out of the ether to offer me free drugs.
Remember kids if someone offers you drugs say, “Thank you” because drugs are expensive
I do that with weed. I refuse any other drug.
But I have the money, it's a bit different.
@@Poodleinacan lol
also maybe dont do that bc almost everything now a days is laced with fentanyl :D
@@sincerityiscary yeah, all the weed has those nasty things in them now. That needs to be the narrative now that people don't buy the idea that it kills brain cells anymore.
Hell yeah! One god damn oxy 30mg pill cost almost $40 now!!! Fuckin crazy!
The only thing that my local DARE program contributed to my community was inspiring the guidance councillor in my school to attempt to invent a similar program about suicide prevention and teaching kids about mental health, developmental disabilities, etc. It was REALLY good, and despite a few flaws it was very well thought out, and she was able to get other schools and psychologists in the region on board. Unfortunately, though it ended up ultimately failing because she couldn’t get any funding to produce programming materials for use in other parts of the province. :(
I wish we had something like that at my school, that would have really helped. Seems like your guidance counsellor truly cared about kid’s wellbeing
That is fuckin awesome!!, sucks it didn't work but perhaps others will have the same idea
You CANNOT convince me that green-screen monster man wasn't invented by someone high out of their mind
this is what a drug looks like.
Lmfaoo
Psychedelics are a crazy thing
Literally
The conversation between the two kids after "smoking" is honestly so realistic. That sounds exactly like me when high out of my mind with friends haha
“Wanna feel good?”
*pulls out fruit by the foot*
20 year old me: ”god do i.”
That was the shit
i now have the image of someone smoking a fat joint just with the paper being replaced with fruit by the foot
Hell yeah fruit by the foot!
I once saw a guy smoking pot... while wearing a D.A.R.E. shirt.
That just tells you something
if you see any 20 something wearing a dare shirt out in the wild, theyre DEFINITELY high
source: a 20 something that owns a dare shirt
Jinx The Destroyr BIG facts bro 😂😂
I prefer to smoke in my D.A.R.E. shirt.
One of my favorite stoner friends is so proud of his DARE shirt, which he loves to wear to parties.
we really live in a society
I love how the “nonsense” conversation was actually just a normal boring conversation about her painting her room but they just pretended to sound high when they said it so it would sound dumb
sorry dude i can’t do drugs i signed the contract that said i’d say no to drugs
What about a lil bit of coke, on the house
The Canadian now we’re talking
Yes 100 like uwu
@@wut_birbowo6166 Hey kid want some crack?
The Canadian sure dude
dude when a cop came to my school, they were like “yeah, being tazed hurts, and doing drugs messes up your brain, and being arrested sucks” then proceeded to explain that when she was a prison gaurd, the prisoners were actually pretty cool, and most respected the rules of the prison and some were actually really nice, and she literally said one of her favorite people ever was a prisoner arrested for drugs. like, wtf man.
Drug users are usually the least violate prisoners. They're there because a system that should help them punishes them
I’m a 25 year old heroin addict. My older brothers used drugs, my mum is an alcoholic, had a nice mix of trauma and fights and experiences that fueled my mental health problems and led to tons of more drug use.
And lemme just say, of the dozens of different users I’ve met in different situations, I haven’t met one “bad” person. I met a lot of damaged and lost people who did shitty things under the influence of drugs or alcohol. But above all, we who abuse drugs are scared, underdeveloped, and simply are trying our best to get through day by day.
@@meowntown69 It isn’t just punishing overzealously. The 13th amendment specifically allows involuntary servitude for people in prison. The prison industrial complex needs minor crimes to carry jail time so they can get their supply of not technically slaves.
There’s a lot of money in this, and that means lobbyists making sure there’s always enough prisoners to meet demand.
@@Numbabu oh I know it just didn't fit well into my comment
I think this is actually pretty good
She explained legit consequences but didn't present all drug users or prisoners are heinous monsters
"hey, u guys wanna feel good?" -said no drug dealer ever
I fucking died when I heard that
@@TheCoroboCorner "hey bud, I'm lonely. Wanna party?"
Me *is this person a prostitute, a drug dealer, or offering free sex and drugs?*
@@TheCoroboCorner I just ran into a prostitute, and she just asked if I wanted to buy her premium
Yeah bro I got into narcotics cuz I wanted to die and live again not feel kinda good
@@evilal20 oh cmon! That one is intentionally confusing!
As someone who gained a lifetime appreciation for reading books thanks to my school bribing me with a free full pan pizza every so often for keeping up on my reading, _you might have a point about that pizza slice._
Book It was lit, I'm glad it's still around (even though Pizza Hut is kinda trash now).
The way my school did it is we had an assembly made from an ex heroin addict and he told us his life story(In seventh grade) . How even though drugs make you feel good then the ability to feel good starts to go away in other ways and you become addicted and sick and in horrible condition. He told us after selling drugs and doing them got him in horrible shape and almost into prison. He had gotten arrested but he went to rehab and turned his life around and now helps inform kids and make sure they don’t get into the place he did. I think it was very affective and two kids actually cried. I think they should do it a way like that in every school. They even gave out pamphlets of places to go or numbers to text or call if you or your family needs help.
Gabriela M. yeah, heroin will fuck you up. the mistake schools make is acting like weed is just as bad as crack
Where do you live??? Wow!! I want to raise my future kids there! 😭
Imagine it was a paid actor
Man, all my school got was some lame ass christian rock band and the lead singer basically gave a sermon about how he killed some people while drunk driving. Then there was a table off to the side of the gym for "general emotional help" but it was just a jesus loves you become saved bullshit kinda thing. I think a couple kids cried there as well and went to the table. Crazy thing, public school too.
Lusty Argonian Maid I live in new jersey and I went to a public school. the guidance officer who is in charge of the assembly’s is so good but not really anything else lol. tbh the assembly’s and drama department and the art classes are the only thing good about the school unless you really love roaches like the ones in out bathroom lol
my big gripe with dare is that they gave me a card when i graduated and swore ON THE BIBLE to me that I can use it to get a free small soda from mcdonalds for the REST OF MY LIFE and those fucking CHEAP CARNIES at mcdonalds started denying my card when I was 25.
Thats fine. I guess I'll just go do drugs now since everything is a lie.
This is the best thing I’ve ever read
😂😂😂 cheap carnies took me out lmao
I’m just surprised it worked until you were 25
There was a McDonalds advert for a coffee cup that gave free coffee for life decades ago, saw some guy using his still afew years back… I think u got jipped bro
I’m gonna do three lines just to spite the people in this guy’s story
Bruh the officer that taught dare to us promised us a HUGE party. The “party” was literally just people in the cafeteria handing out one slice of cake per person and we had shitty lemonade too.
Cake and Lemonade, ok *now* I'm concerned... What a horrible combination
Children don't do drugs.. eat lots of cake.. cake will make you good at life.
sounds like that party could have used some drugs
We didn't even get a party, just some sad pseudo-graduation that took too damn long
Yellow Colored Water with all the Sugar Undissolved at the Bottom.
8:04 that conversation is like fully coherent. She wants to paint her room, doesn’t know if some third person will like that, but that her parents are okay with it.
Literally, that was my thought lol. It sounds like conversation I have with my friends
the only things that make that conversation sound incoherent are that they dont really specify everything in their sentences, theyre mumbling/trailing off a bit, and the one guy needed to clarify "blue?" this is just a conversation i would have with my adhd besties
I remember the D.A.R.E. Program back in 5th grade in 1996. We were 100% clueless on drugs. They came in and taught us the names of all the drugs, the neighborhoods where to find the drugs and the code names to use to get the drugs from the drug dealers and they said “dOn’T dO dRuGs”
So they basically gave you all the information you needed to find and get high on drugs? What did they think they were going to accomplish with that?
@@ellazenzen8735 arrest the kids they taught those things to fill their quotas to keep funding coming in for programs like D.A.R.E.
almost.... like they were daring you....
@@ellazenzen8735 some cops have literally cooked meth live in a school assembly to demonstrate the dangers or some shit
That was the same for me and most of my classmates in 1995. Most of the kids I went through dare with do drugs, sell drugs or have died from drugs! Dare was a dumpster fire that did more harm than good in my town! And the fact you had to go to a doughnut shop to get a cop to come to your school... I just love it!
I have been offered drugs by a stranger exactly one time in my life. I was about twelve, at the park with a friend, when this guy who looked about twenty came up to us and said, "hey if you got five dollars I'll get y'all high as fuck." I responded, "nah man I'm good," to which he replied, "alright," and then walked away.
Who the fuck was it, Abe Lincoln? When were drugs ever that cheap?
If you look like a nark no one is gonna give you free drugs.
So odd💀
Same. I’ve had people offer me drugs I said nah they were like ok and that was it.
did you get that guy's phone number
It’s kinda weird how they constantly “DONT DO DRUGS DONT DO DRUGS JUST SAY NO!!!!!” What’s the thing that teenagers just love to do? Rebel, just teach them how to be safe
It’s like teaching abstinence only sex Ed. Like no teenager is going to listen to that. They just need to learn to be safe
Seriously. Like Johnny Depp told his daughter he knew she was going to be around drugs at some point, so if she ever wanted to try weed he would let her try it under his supervision so she wouldn’t try for the first time in a scenario where she could get hurt.
exactly. instead of telling us what happens if we happen to do them it's mostly just "lindsey did an acid. lindsey died. don't do drugs kids." like??? what good does that do? how did she die? what happened before she died? they don't tell us ANYTHING.
@@mikakick7180 you can't leave us hanging like that, we have to know how Lindsey died!
@@_ikako_ she did an acid?
My DARE instructor was a police officer and also a CHILD PREDATOR. That shit was wild when we found out why he got fired
actual average fed
okay but he has a point about the pizza and the arcade games. if kids actually had places they could go locally that they could actually hang out and have fun at without losing all their money or get arrested for loitering, they might feel less like they're stuck at a point in their life where they have no control over anything.
but them how would people turn a profit, will someone think of the poor capitalists
We need better infrastructure. In many cities, it's really hard to get around without a car.
So much this. All we had was a mall to hang out at and we smoked weed in the woods. 😅😅
canada has these, they are called youth houses, basically, teens can go hang out there for free.
holy shit actual ymca moment
When the song went “don’t join gangs, now don’t you do it now” I lost it
they basically DAREd me
But what if I formed a gang of my own?
@@matthew_natividad don’t you do it 🤫
Some kid in a dangerous neighborhood who’s desperate for a sense of safety, security, and identity: interesting point, don’t know why I hadn’t considered it
"Hey, wanna do drugs?"
"No"
"You sure man? They're fun"
"Well I did say no.... and that's my last line of defense, didn't work... soooo... yeah sure gimme that heroin"
i am not gunna like it bc it already has 420
@@craigthedefault177 hero
Fuck I wasnt trained for this
Sorry i can’t deal with needles
That’s actually how I started doing heroin
I remember going thru the DARE program in 6th grade. we had to sign a paper at the end promising we would never use drugs or alcohol. I wrote "I cannot promise I will never try drugs or alcohol in the future, but I learned some things from your classes." Sure enough age 17 comes around and I'm smoking pot, drinking beer, and doing mushrooms lol. However I can say the program definitely made me think about the consequences of drug abuse more and I never went overboard. So it wasn't a complete failure. We had guest speakers come in and talk about how they ruined their lives due to drug abuse. I don't know if DARE had such speakers nation wide, but it was certainly what impacted me the most.
Gotta admit, those tHIs iS yOuR bRaIN oN DrUgS commercials were the funniest shit and great meme fodder.
dude i remember the above the influence commercial where they were cardboard on a couch and acted like it was terrible, but thats me high and its the best.
A channel called the tin can bros actually did a great skit based around it. I think you can find it if you look up 'tcb this is your brain on drugs'
We used to say that commercial all the time, with other things, to make fun of it.
I remember the one with the girl smashing everything with a pan
D.A.R.E. basically Dared everyone to do drugs
The anti anti weed initiative also had a dare program it stands for
Drugs
Are
Really
Enjoyable
Drugs
Are
Related to
E-boys
Andrew Swanson Films
Or for the phonaesthetics
Drugs
Are
Real-
E good
Dreams Are Really Entertaining
So we meet again big tiddy Jane
the issue with dare is that they treated the program like a haunted hayride for weed. i didn't learn anything about the opioid epidemic through dare. i never learned how to spot a drug overdose through the dare program. all i learned is "ooga booga weed will melt your brain"
and i was one of those kids who never wanted to smoke the devil's lettuce but here i am a decade later and i just got my med card renewed heyo 😎😎😎
So many good times smoking a bowl with my D.A.R.E Shirt on.
Unrelated, but am I the only one who thinks 9:10 looks too much like blackface?
the overdose point really makes me think about how ineffective dare's curriculum really was. i never had to do dare, afaik it got removed from my elementary school the year i was supposed to start doing it, and what made me decide to claim straightedge is all the secondhand experience i've had with seeing the way drugs affected other people. teaching kids how and when to administer narcan would probably do way more to teach them a lesson than making stuff up to scare them; i feel like i would've been way more likely to start experimenting with drugs and would've gotten myself into far worse things had i been taught a bunch of stupid bullshit that i realized was stupid bullshit
If D.A.R.E. keeps preteens from operating heavy equipment while under the influence, then it’s successful. After the age of 12, you’re on your own, kid.
"Wow, Mike's good!"
Also Mike: pops an extremely basic O
ollie that literally every skateboarder learns.
He was such a poser.
in the 90s, though, first tricks.
one year after I graduated from dare, our dare leader was arrested for drinking and driving lmao.
Dude same! Open bottle...in her cop car while on the job lmfao 🤦🏼♀️
Oh Boy Art Yeah. Hilarious given he could've killed himself or someone else by doing so.
Mine got out of prison last year for fraud by stealing $10,000 through the DARE program.
@@NikeTubeStudios lmfao you know where that cash went
“Hey kid, wanna do some weed”
“Nah, I got better things to do, like acid and crack, acid doesn’t come up on drug test so I won’t get caught
Acid most definitely shows up on a drug test.
Source: Back in high school parents made me take a home drug test
@@Jim-dy4wv most drug test it doesn’t come up on, idk which drug test you did because for it to come up it would need to be specially made for it
If you're tripping balls you don't need a drug test, people can tell...
@@Jim-dy4wv no u need to tap spinal fluid to detect lsd bro, ur parents just tricked u into admittine it
@@jesuskillmyopps nope. Your system just gets rid of LSD much quicker, but it can show up on a urine drug test in the first 2-4 days after use. It lasts in blood a bit longer, and traces stay in spinal fluid for months.
I love how at 1:01 theirs just a dude and his girlfriend snorting coke on a public street bench in broad daylight
willson dufford and the girl blows it into his face so he’s still gonna get a bump 😂
That's what we in the public-drug-doing world call a 'power move'
Keenan Verpoten I would have beat her ass
Why couldn’t she just say no? That’s like 60 bucks she blew in his face
You’ve never been to the uk have you
I had no exposure to drugs before DARE, i literally learned everything i knew about drugs from DARE at that time. After learning that if i did drugs i would literally die, and from the stress of school and being bullied every day i did drugs so i would die. But as you might imagine i didn't die but got insanely high instead, got attacked by a giant psychedelic rainbow number 8, and passed out on the kitchen floor for a couple hours. Only to be roused by my grandmother telling me to do that in my room instead because i was in the way of cooking dinner.
sounds pretty rough
D.A.R.E is the reason I don’t do drugs.
D - Drugs
A - are
R - really
E - expensive
drugs allow rare enjoyment
IntrovertAdventures You got me there
Cole Dansie that is very true my dude
@@introvertadventures3872 Dont Assfuck Rambunctious Exploitables
They should’ve taught us how to budget instead smh
We all used to wear our D.A.R.E. shirts while toking down because we thought it was the height of wit and humor.
I know this comment is old af but the fact that I literally have a smoking jacket that way I don't reek that is dare and I was toking while reading this made me happy
I remember the biggest stoners in school being the ones who were the most keen on wearing their “drug-free and proud” ribbons during drug abuse prevention week, always with an ironic chuckle.
this makes me wish i still ad my dare shirt lmao
It still is.
You actually bought one of those shirts lol
The dare at my school compaired drugs to 9/11 “hijacking your brains like the terrorists hijacked the planes” it was not effective it was severely made fun of.
during withdrawal, youll crash harder than al-Qaeda crashed those planes into the twin towers
I remember this from my school too.
Implying that 3,000 people will die if you do drugs?
@@allisond.46 3,000 brain cells maybe
@@WatchVidsMakeLists DARE killed more brain cells than that through shear boredom.
Going through the DARE program after my mom having to advocate to keep the school from forcing me onto Ritalin in 1st grade should've felt more surreal, but at the time, it just felt redundant.
"Drugs can alter your neurochemistry!"
"Yeah, I know. I associate it with a horrifying loss of autonomy. But I guess I'll learn the factoids for a pencil, before braindumping them."
Alternate title: Eddy rants about a bowling alley for 17 min with DARE in the background
“It’s not even weed, it’s a fruit by the foot!” I cried, that was so funny to me
Deadass had a fruit by the foot in my mouth, does this mean i did the drugs? Help
“Aw what the FUCK MIKE!
The editing, everything was so perfect man
Me too
Honestly fruit by the foot used to be more addictive than weed.
Asking for the “D.A.R.E. Bear at Country Style Doughnuts” sounds like a code for buying drugs
They've been teaching us how to buy them the whole time.
D: Teaching
A: Kids
R: to buy
E: Drugs
Hey can I get some of that... dare bear.
The bears had a "suprise" inside. I legit failed dare, no joke.
"Hey! Want to give your kids some basic levels of education on a life-saving issue by people who are state employees sworn to protect and serve them anyway? Then go buy fucking doughnuts! Why, you ask? Because fucking Reagan, that's why!"
Yeah!
After one of the big DARE assemblies, a kid in my school went up to a cop and turned in his dad for smoking weed. The kid wasn't in my class, so I never did find out what became of that, but I remember feeling really bad for his dad.
Holy shit haha that's brutal
When I graduated from DARE, we didn’t get anything. We just got a pat on the back and a “congrats, you didn’t die of boredom.”
We got a price of paper and a tshirt, and everyone signed the back like they were year books.
I got a t shirt that I’m actually wearing right now because apparently I haven’t grown at all since 5th grade
Do you remember the too cool to do drugs pencils?
@@iswearimnotafurry4953 I finally took down the paper they gave us for “graduating”
@@iswearimnotafurry4953 lol
I still remember being a kid in elementary school and being taken out of recess so a police officer could talk about not doing drugs.
All i could think about is how much i wanted to go back and play on the swings like bruh, why would they take my recess away ;(
Same, i was playing an intense game of tag with like 30 people and there was like 4 people in my class that were in the tag game and i kept looking outside and seeing all of my friends in other classes play tag and i was :((((
i lived in a different universe where the dude doing sick skateboard tricks is also the one selling drugs
I was waiting for him to sell them the drugs... but no... somehow there is this 12 year old drug dealer who is cool with skater guy tossing her drugs away...
I grew up during dare, everyone thought it was the lamest crap lol I only have fond memories of Scruff Mcgruff because after their presentations, they sent us all home with thick coupon books that had coupons like entire free meals or ice cream at restaurants, no purchase needed. As a poor kid, I always looked forward to them.
You know a video is gonna be a banger when the classic floral shirt is on.
Is he pulling a Fantano on us?
I've got a really cool 90's neon D.A.R.E fanny pack. All I use it for is to carry my drugs.
Don Johnson the perfect cover
No one will know... brilliant
@@dean4553 now they will
😂🤣
did eddy purposely wear the same shirt as retro bill?
An alnighter at a bowling alley seems like the perfect place to do drugs lol
69 likes hsha funne numbwr
Dare was great: taught kids where to get drugs, how they were used, why they were used, what they did, potential side effects, how to identify drug abusers(who will give u drugs). What a stellar idea.
5:42
“man, mike’s good”
*mike does the most basic trick imaginable*
Don't disrespect mike
@Joseph Harkness you’re right i didn’t know what i was thinking
Imagine how bad he'd be if he smoked that marijuana. Good thing he said no!
It’s better that he’s maul grabbing then smoking weed
Avery Joyner damn I just saw these comments haha thats cool as shit dude. Its hard not to come off as kind of a cornball in any type of psa bc thats the whole vibe that gets put off in them. Idk if its on purpose or bc the people that do the PSAs are just a bunch of fuckin weirdos. But your dad didnt come across bad at all tho. He still seemed like a pretty cool guy
D.A.R.E. was very misleading. People don’t just offer up free drugs 🤷🏻♀️ I was very disappointed as I grew up and no one offered me free pot
Anna Belke dude ikr 😂😂
@Real Donald Trump "Female"
Ironically, it's the good friends who actually offer you free pot growing up.
yeah, i don't think i've ever paid for weed, although I usally brought the booze
Your friends are lame
I was on hefty amounts of painkillers throughout my childhood due to a disability that required annual surgieries, bodycasts and the painful physical therapy that followed them. My sisters school had a DARE program and she asked if painkillers count as drugs. These idiots confirmed but didn't think to specify it was okay if prescribed so she came home and told my mom they HAD to get rid of my drugs. Poor kid said I would ruin my life and get in trouble and was mad at mom for letting this happen. Lmao. My mom tried to clear it up for her. Mom explained I would be in too much pain to function without them so doctors, and in extension police, give an exception with this kind. So she went to school and told the whole class that her little sister does drugs but it was okay and it wouldn't get me in trouble. 😭😭
Sell them all a pill they’ll see it’s all good
She had the right idea 🥺🥺 that's so cute and I can guarantee my nine year old brother does the same about my Ritalin prescription to his friends 💀💀
i went through a similar thing to your sister when i was a kid, except with my moms bipolar disorder medication. i was also too scared to ask if prescription medication was fine, because 1) they told us a swat team would come to our house if our parents did drugs and 2) my mom, not wanting to explain bipolar disorder medication to her 6 year old, referred to them as her "happy pills." i never told my parents this either, i literally never told anyone until like 4 years ago when it popped into my head one day
My sister got upset one day when she was like 5 because our neighbor was taking us to school and was "drinking and driving". She was drinking coffee. They need to be a bit more specific.
oh your sweet little sister, and those stupid little dare instructors. im just glad your sister didnt take it into her own hands and get rid of the herself, im sorry you had to go theough all of that by the way, that must have sucked
That DARE psa with the Fall Out Boy intro was actually perfect considering Pete Wentz nearly died of an Atavan overdose
they also use about 4 seconds of a Blue October song (X Amount of Words) SPECIFICALLY and LITERALLY about a man abusing drugs as a way to cope with grief, and why that's ok and maybe even good
@@tamriilinthat song is also about bipolar disorder! I recognized that song immediately.
if you want to tell kids the dangers of drugs, dont bring a cop, bring an ex junkie.
As a person who worked with many addicts and recovering addicts, this! Show just how much it will ruin your life from someone who's gone through it
Take them for a drive through that one section of whatever city is closest to you. I live near Philly, so naturally that one section is Kensington and Allegheny.
I’m from Canada and in grade 8 we did a sex education camp as part of our learning curriculum and they actually brought in 2 former prostitutes who were also former drug addicts to talk to us about what being a sex worked on the streets was like and how dangerous it was. They also talked about being drug users and all that stuff. It was very eye opening.
bring a current junkie
Very true! Also, bring in sponsors and therapists for ex-junkies that can further explain why people become addicts, the actual sciences around addiction (with anything, not exclusively just drugs/alcohol), what kids can do if they recognize they're becoming harmfully addicted to something, etc.
However, that would also mean adults addressing things like systemic societal problems with things like mental health as well as a bunch of other things that encourage people to fall into addictions (including drugs), to begin with. Something extremely hard enough for adults to do with each other, since falling into addictions has always been over-generalized as part of a person's personal failings, and addressing things based off of it being systemic can often be seen as controversial for some people.
ok but like, most people i've met that do any type of drugs, don't pressure people. the people pressuring others are usually insecure. normal people on drugs might ask if you want some(maybe) but generally don't give a shit. most people doing drugs, choose to do it.
and I think that was a big part of the problem with dare.
Y'know what people are a lot more pushy about? Alcohol. People who do drugs generally don't care if other people don't do drugs, but if a social drinker finds out that you don't plan on ever drinking (and you don't have like, concrete medical or religious reasons for not doing so) they get _super_ weird about it.
^ u didn’t finish ur message
I've worked with people who made their lives revolve around getting stoned and partying. I was nearly forced to smoke weed while I was on the clock.
Most of the stoners I know will offer. And if you say "no" their attitude is Usually "ok cool more for me."
I think a better lesson would be that if your planing to experience it. Know how to do it safely. Tell people how to use it and when not to use it, Where to use it, ect. Maybe I’m saying this because I live in the Netherlands. Where drugs are a lot less taboo. But that caused much less dangerous environment surrounding drugs.
My friend rolled her DARE certificate into a joint and smoked it. So poetic.
Herb Tenderson fuck off
@Herb Tenderson how is that not plausible
Dude, what do you think would happen if like, you smoked a joint wrapped in the bill of rights or the Constitution? TOtally wic Ked right bro!
@@eldenemerald7962 It isn't impossible, but it is a common thing people claim. Have you ever actually tried smoking something with regular paper? It isn't as fun or as satisfying as it sounds, and you would probably quit after the first drag.
@@DriscolDevil I admit I haven't ever done drugs. But I was saying that the OP's story didn't sound fake.
Dude, this unlocked a memory I was in grade 6 in 2011 and we made an anti-drug PSA and basically it was of 2 kids, giving another kid a bag of sugar which was supposed to be cocaine, and he just basically poured the bag into his mouth and ate it lol. So realistic
Adults in the 00s be like: Don't do drugs.
Doctors in the 00s be like: Oh, you sprained your thumb? Here's 90 Vicodins, take it 3x a day for a month.
Ok boomer
DreamLandBuds wut?
Part of the reason I smoke weed all the time now is because my parents have had me on adderall and similar things for so long. Once doctors introduced me to mind altering substances buying my own that works better just makes sense. Thanks, doctors.
@@myristicina. she's five don't worry about it
I need the address to this doctor
"Some big kids do drugs but my mommy and daddy say it's not cool."
Because if there's one thing every adolescent wants, it's to be like their parents & not the "older kids". 👌
I noticed that. They present it like it's acceptable if older kids do drugs...
Depends on how lazy the parents are. I'm guessing mommy and daddy never paid you much attention did they. I know lots of kids who look up to their father as a role model and do everything in their power to emulate them. You must of just had shite parents. Sorry for your luck. But don't feel bad most parent these days are shite so you are normal and you do fit in. I hope that dissuades any social anxiety you might now have because of this comment.
This would backfire on my kids, my husband is a pot smoker (it’s legal in Canada).
I once saw my DARE officer in a Best Western flirting with the girl at the front desk
Aah the good old days
Kazoo
"hey girl, have you heard of d.a.r.e.?"
I think we can all agree: Lack of unlimited pizza after promising unlimited pizza is BULLSHIT.
why is mike like 32 and hanging out at the skate park with 12 year olds
Because Mike is really cool.
thats exactly what i was thinking
He looks more like early 20s or late teens
Because he’s just that cool
I remember my mom pulled me out of DARE in grade school because I came home like a fire and brimstone preacher about her moderate beer consumption, and some officer came into our class to talk about gang violence and somehow turned it into a brainstorm for 3rd graders to figure how to turn everyday objects into weapons. We ready to go full Battle Royale.
E- eradicate
D- dangerous
D- drugs
Y- y’all
E- Erectile
D- Dysfunction
D- Drugs
Y- Yeet
The county constable did the dare program in our district in Texas. He went on to be elected the county sheriff when I was in high school. He went on to be convicted of racketeering, extortion and drug trafficking and distribution.
I’m 24 years old and up until today I thought D.A.R.E. Was a gorillaz album lmao
It’s coming up
It’s coming up
It’s coming up
It’s dare woo
It's a Gorillaz song.
Well, drugs do make you Feel Good.... Inc
@@kCuba_
Not for long...
The future is comin' on.....
@@DussyBestroyer69 gg my guy
*MIKE IS SOOO GOOD*
Mike: **does stationary ollie**
He but a Rookie
Yeah he didn't even do a 900, wtf Mike
Mike: *mall grabs*
He did do a 50/50 on the half tho. If that was him and not some stock footage or something
This Video includes :
D.A.R.E -10 %
Eddie being salty about his childhood -90%
If it's not at least 40% Eddy getting angsty, it's not an Eddy video
thezachman1 true
Your Comment Includes:
Reflection of how little sense of humour you have - 90%
Annoying way of laying your point point out - 10%
Rhys Hansen it’s dash then the percentage not negative
The DARE instructor at my sister’s school told all the kids how math was made, and unsurprisingly there was a seemingly overnight epidemic of math labs.
Dude. Mike got free weed from acting like he don’t smoke.
He only did an Ollie like even I can do that and I’m an idiot
Woah, bruh, don't diss Mike he's freakin **cool**
7:12 I thought the girl was saying “gay” and not “game”, so when I saw that rainbow green screen monstrosity I thought that was what they were going for
The 90's, amirite?
Made me homophobic for the longest time as a child. Feel really bad about it though.
Wait didn’t she say gay?
So I’m the only one that actually heard game
I heard gang
My dare program was pretty good. It was run mostly like a biology class where it was like "if you decide to do drugs, here are the consequences" and then it was about the cancer and other medical issues that can arise from doing drugs. It also focused mostly on cigarettes and alcohol from my memory, but this was all the way back when. It also wasn't shaming if you did, they were always like "hey, if you or someone you know is doing this stuff, talk to a trusted adult, we just want to make sure you're alright". The same issues did seem to arise, kids are gonna be lil'shits regardless of how much you educate them.
Damnit, I wish I went to your school! I fucking loved epidemiology since I was 8!
That would’ve been cool tbh. I went to several different schools and when they were still going on, they didn’t really give any info, just talked abt how horrible the lives were of the people who did them and said don’t do them. I would like to salute to them with my bong (that I’m currently using) in hand.
In my country, we did this thing called "Happy Harold" (now known as Healthy Harold) where we'd go to some place and learn about health shit from a giraffe puppet. Stuff like how junk food is bad for you, how alcohol and cigarette are bad. Mind you, I was only 6 at the time. He's going on about how cigarettes and smoking cause cancer, and I'm freaking way the hell out because both of my parents were smokers, and I didn't want them to die, so I was paying razor sharp attention. Eventually, he starts to change topic from cigarettes to something else, so I shot my hand up, because I had an important question:
"What about bongs?"
He stuttered for a few seconds, then moved on without answering me. That really upset me because I wanted to know.
This seems like the best approach honestly
in my experience thats the most effective method of preventing ppl from doing drugs. nothing scared me off coke more than my sister telling me her scary ass experience of doing coke with a guy she barely knew and then getting in a 200km/h car chase with him behind the wheel. nothing scared me off of smoking more than watching my grandma slowly die from lung cancer. nothing scares you straight better than watching someone you love reap the consequences of drugs and alcohol.
They told us in kindergarten that If we did "cheese" we would go to jail do I screamed at my mom that we couldn't have pizza anymore and she was so confused, she was also addicted to heroin.
Pffft
This comment went from 100-0 like a fucking crash test dummy
Wow. What a wild ride that read was.
CHEESE
So, what you are saying is that if they gave you unlimited pizza, everything would have been less confusing, right?
I started high school in 1983 and so missed out on DARE. We did have someone come into the classroom in 4th grade or so who announced, “Statistically, 3 of you will use drugs,” which I believe was quite a lowball guess, and everybody started calling out specific names of who it was going to be. Then, because it was like 1978, they told us to shut up, and then started listing horrible ways to die. No songs, no parties, no potentially attractive descriptions of what the drugs did, just “This is how this one will kill you” plus various descriptions of marijuana destroying your brain so you would be an unemployable bum, you know, like all those traumatized Vietnam vets around town…Before that, I got the American Heart Association anti-smoking coloring book that had you color smokers’ lungs black and such things. I never had any interest in doing drugs, yay. And then in high school it was AIDS and constant terror of nuclear war. GenX is like this for a reason, guys.
1) your mustache is looking good 2) i love how you split your topics into sections and have special graphics for them
Back off, Imga. He's mine!!!!!
Dirty Saint listen, i’m just a midwest girl trying to find her midwest King ok?!! lol
DARE keep it real literally taught me how to safely do drugs
Keep it real was like the worst DARE campaign. None of the lessons were actually about drugs
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@@Creativearts1722 yo mama
DARE made drugs look so fun. It was like a PSA for drugs. I would see all those lame people telling me not to do drugs and think, "oh, so I should do drugs, right?"
well i mean the best way to do drugs is to do them safely
When they were talking about “the GAME guy” i thought they called him gay.
Well, I dont blame ya. He is cover in rainbows
Issa joke
The Game Guy is a gay icon
Me too just cuz of the rainbows
Would explain the rainbow colours
Being gay turns you into a walking rainbow. 🤣
I remember DARE but not much about it.
The thing that made a bigger impression on me was a safety day camp thing and they had a whole section on electrical safety. They had a machine that would generate power line voltages and showed what it did to an uncooked hot dog. I was fascinated lol
Ya know! Cigarettes and alcohol are worse for you then marijuana but D.A.R.E makes a bigger deal about marijuana
James Games honestly marijuana can be medicinal.🤦🏻♀️
It's not drugs it's medicine
Nah but coming after Hispanics(primary users of marijuana) was worth it. Same way they go after crack cocaine and black ppl
I mean if cigarettes and alcohol are legal then marijuana should be legal everywhere
I'm pretty sure they said the most dangerous drug is weed
i've only experienced a dare thing once. nowadays its just drug searches. bringing dogs to school. once during summer school i was sitting next to a dude named alex, we were sitting the farthest from the door. a police lady came in and told us all to leave our bags and leave immediately.
alex was the smoothest, he pulled the drugs out of bag and slipped them into his pocket with as little suspicion as possible, it was magical to watch. i miss alex, i wonder where he is. he said i was cool.
G o D (this reminded me of a post I saw once yeah haha)
Probably in jail
@@spider-mancantsee5875 probably.
Dead at the end of an alley with needle marks all over his arm
Find Alex I want his children. A man as cool as that, I need it
Sometimes I just gotta light up a fruit roll up just to feel something man.
local guy Hey there, LISTEN! Give it up before it’s already too late man, I was suffering with this stuff for 2 years straight, and you know what happened? My entire life was almost shattered right in front of my eyes, all of my friends isolated me, my lover dropped me for another person, my health was in a horrible state, and my entire career was ruined just because of smoking fruit rolls, my life is already doing pretty good now, and it broke my heart seeing some other person doing it. Please drop the whole fruit roll smoking before it’s already too late man
BaZaFaOfficial Thegreat Powerful words
IT WAS A FRUIT BY THE FOOT
@@pre-packaged_9692 finally someone knows what they're talkin about in the comments
Bruh you smoke FRUIT ROLL UPS? That’s lame
Gushers are where it’s at my dude
At my elementary school we had an afternoon every once in a while where DARE set up a bunch of info booths in front of the school and we all walked around them instead of being in class. The anti-tobacco stuff was good because they had models of what happened to your lungs/mouth but the other drugs were all about just saying no to peer pressure and nothing about any bad consequences of saying yes so there you go
I've smoked plenty of weed before but I never imagined a green screen monster who teaches kids the effects of marijuana
Because it’s legal... just please don’t do cocaine or something. That stuff ruins ur life
Are you gonna stop now that you’ve seen the green screen monster?
Okay, so that WASN'T the acid
You: It's not even weed it's a fruit by the foot!
Mike: THAT'S WHATV THEY ALL SAY!
I had to pause the video at that part I was laughing so hard
I was on ADHD meds throughout most of my childhood during the 90s so when I started to hear things like "don't do drugs" I would get confused because I actually did drugs and they helped me function.
When I brought this up they would always say things like "well you can only take them if a doctor says it's okay". Then I would ask what was the difference between good drugs and bad drugs. I never seemed to get a straight answer other than "they're illegal and you'll get in trouble if you do them". Then I'd do the classic "rabbit hole of why" and they'd find an excuse to move on
Well if they told you they're bad because they're unregulated and they're unregulated because they're bad then I can imagine the whole spiel would crumble pretty quick.
You got confused because you are stupid. You are stupid because you don't pay attention. Your comment is 100% proof. You are so stupid in fact that now someone has tricked you into taking the drugs they sell to solve a discipline issue. So tell me how much do you enjoy being a stupid drug zombie?
Sure lol they cant tell you that your pure amphetamine molecule your taking and actually help you are bad but the one on the street are bad the only differance is that the street one is like taking a shot and the one you got home is like sipping a 12 in 10.
no bc id be the same kid asking them a million questions
"What's the difference between prescription drugs and bad drugs?"
"Shut up."