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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Ah yes drugs are bad. Weed kills you, etc.
You find out weed doesn't do any of the shit they said it did... Now absolutely everything they claimed is called into question. Why would they lie about X but not about Y?
DARE did more to make people learn that police cannot be trusted apart from maybe their general violent tendencies.
I may be too european, but our one prez was about hard drugs! Half of it was about was a biology lesson about the nucleus accumbens and its deterioration! The other half was safety tips, apparently you can try every hard drug once with exemption to crystal meth without causing permanent damage! I didn’t know that until then, I would have probably never tried morphine once if not for that lesson…
Also didn’t the cia sell drugs? Maybe it really was an advertisement?
DARE should have just told me that pot would just make me really sleepy and make me eat too much... causing an 8 lb weight gain overnight. That would have been enough. They should have avoided telling me anything about speed.
"Studies published in the 1990s concluded that D.A.R.E. had little to no effectiveness in preventing drug use in elementary, middle, or high school students, and may actually lead to increased drug use." https://www.britannica.com/procon/DARE-Drug-Abuse-Resistance-Education-debate
Same thing as Christians and their anti-porn crusade. I got introduced to the concept of porn through church, lmao.
They were daring you to try to beat the stats.
They taught us that drugs were evil and done by bad people. The first time I smoked pot, I realized I was lied to and wondered what other drugs were like.
That program was started at around the same time that the US government flooded the country with Crack Cocaine to fund their illegal wars in Central America
If any one is wondering .... you should look up the story of Gary Webb
EDIT: .... and if anyone is paying attention ... the story that Webb uncovered basically ruined his life because the government hounded him like a dog until he lost everything. Even then, he still kept fighting, resisting and writing about all the terrible things the government was doing.
Then at the height of all the news about all this ... he died by suicide ... from two gunshot wounds to the head! ... and people tell me to stop believing in conspiracy theories. How the hell do you shoot yourself in the head twice to kill yourself.
A simplified retelling of this story is in the film 'Kill the Messenger' (2014) which stars Jeremy Renner
They showed us a video like
Acid makes you see sounds and taste colors, and isn't addictive... But don't do it!
Before the video I absolutely had no desire to try acid, and after the video all I could think was like "what does a color taste like?!?!"
Don’t go get free ebooks on safe platforms like libgen or annas-archive !!
I love two things about DARE:
Their mascot was an anthro lion.
They did more to get kids ON drugs than they did to get them OFF drugs.
And then there's former President George Bush, doing his part with Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue.
Totally made drugs more appealing.
I feel like Alf would do coke.
Catamine
One of my buddies loves to wear his D.A.R.E. sweatshirt when he smokes.
I found one that says "Dispensaries Are Really Expensive"
I also live in a waspy town and several people have noticed the DARE letters, struck up a conversation about how great the program was and we should bring it back,etc. Then they actually read it and get all huffy. Best $24.99 I ever spent.
In Canada back in the day cops would come into the classroom. They had big boards with all the drugs attached. More than a few times, they disappeared off the board.
I remember a constable coming to class with one of these and commenting that I had excellent veins should I ever do IV drugs. They 100% set us up to fail.
And told you to go home and ask your parents about their drug experiences.
My parents only ever said "Drugs are bad and evil, stay away from drugs, they are no laughing matter. Understand? Good. Now let's watch this Cheech and Chong movie."
What I always found funny later in life was they never said anything about DMT. It was like they didn't want us to be aware of DMT existing, even though it was discovered in the 30s, found naturally in the 40s, known hallucinogenic for hundreds or thousands of years, but only studied as a hallucinogen in the 50s.
DMT is a glorious hallucinogen that any psychonaut should pursue, it is easier to obtain than LSD and profoundly better with shorter lasting effects than LSD or mushrooms. You got an hour to spend and are willing to shatter reality? DMT can change your mind.
Whaaaaat? You mean to tell me that the guys whose entire existence is justified by locking up poor people for drug use, whose "justice system" is just a front for legal slavery, ran an "anti" drug campaign that maybe wasn't super good? Almost like that was... the whole point?
Even better was the fact the fact that this same president was also once the head of the CIA .... the same organization which most likely still included people he knew to work with South American drug cartels to initiate the Crack Cocaine epidemic of the 90s in order to fund their wars and conflicts in Central America.
It pisses me off so much that so few people remember this history of America ..... on one hand they claim the moral high ground of wanting people to stop doing drugs .... when they, the actual government spy agency, were the ones who created the conditions for more drugs to be sold on the street!!!!!
I've said it a bunch of times on this thread because it's important to me and should be important to everyone else ... look up the story of Gary Webb
I have a DARE shirt that says 'Drugs Are Really Expensive' underneath and i feel like thats a more effective deterrent than anything they said in the program.
Ah, yes, the ~~massively~~ ~~mostly~~ ~~kind of~~ not really at all successful D.A.R.E. Program.
It was successful at grabbing my interest. "Drugs Are Really Expensive" would have been a far better message.
As an 80s kid who endured DARE since – what 1988? – I wanted to let everyone know that I read this post and comments while being high.
My dad would change the wording of Dare Tshirts with tipp-ex so that "dare to say no to drugs" would instead say "dare to say hi to roger" (in swedish) 😂
I did drugs before DARE. So, we knew they were full of shit. However it was the late 70s so we had legit caution about drugs that were administered with needles so avoided those... Then the cocaine era happened.
I remember learning about acid. If you do acid, you will freak out and stab a pencil through your eye.
I was 100% the target audience for DARE lol. I remember my classmates asking me what drugs I wanted to try from the lesson and I would be so confused because the way the officer spoke of the effects made taking them seem very scary to me.
I'm now a big pothead so maybe I'm not that much of an outlier.
Drugs Are Really Excellent.
In middle school, my health class was all about how in high school, there'd be all these crazy sex and drug fueled parties and one day I turned to my friend and said "I cannot wait for high school".
Let's not forget the drug-induced fever dream that is Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue.
Complete with intro by George and Barbara Bush.
I'm always amazed at the two sided nature of America
Claiming one thing and holding the moral high ground above everyone else ..... while selling their soul to the devil and destroying entire countries without a bit of remorse or responsibility.
Bush and his wife talking about the dangers of drugs in America .... all while the CIA was working with South American drug cartels to initiate the explosion of the Crack Cocaine epidemic of the 90s .... look up the story of Gary Webb and the work he did as a journalist to uncover it all.
DARE = Drugs Are Really Excellent