#d.a.r.e.

[yourgirlmary]

burn the witch the witch is dead burn the witch just bring me back her head softer, softest - hole

Courtney Love at the Drug Abuse Resistance Eduction (D.A.R.E.) Benefit, in 1994.

[itsthevioletqueen]

Mufalooloo™

[cokiemace]

10 years of $uicideboy$

[perrysoup]

Pretext: This deals with Hamas and the US program DARE. Some of you may not like the analogy I am going to use, but frankly you need to think on it too, especially if you grew up in the US.

Long post.

So, story time. I grew up in America, I was born and raised here. Part of American schooling (in Fifth Grade, gotta get them agreeing with a police state early) is a system called DARE you are taught of and by, standing for Drug Abuse Resistance Education. In that (absolute dogshit pro-police anti-addict (NOT anti-addiction, anti-ADDICT)) lesson, a key thing we are taught is that Weed is a gateway drug. If you smoke weed you WILL do crack. You WILL do heroin. You WILL sell your body for the weed addiction. That drug dealers and users and mean and hurtful and will abuse you constantly. Again, this is regardless of the drug. I am not speaking about actual horrors committed on people who are having their addiction taken advantage of. Those are real and happen.

That's not hyperbole btw, feel free to look at your own kids DARE stuff if you have them in that age group.

Anyway, I believed it. Others may not have, but I did. We had to sign things saying we would never do drugs, never drink and drive (which they never defined and I'll tell a fun story at the end about), never do ANYTHING really.

So time goes on, 5th grade me turns into 6th grade to 7th, rinse and repeat til I am a Sophomore in High School (Grade 10). And on a whim, I was offered to smoke a bong in a car in a SUPER white SUPER "well off" neighborhood. And I did. I actually first had to ask how to do it, and shocker, the dude was super nice and friendly. He didn't judge me or anything, he was happy to show me. My inexperience was not a thing to laugh at to him. (One Question raised about what DARE talked about. Technically two since "well off" people never did such a thing, and because of that they are "well off")

He also never offered me any other drugs. Hell he didn't even offer pot. If you wanted it you could ask and buy from him, but he wasn't pushing it. (Two questions raised about what DARE talked about).

I also never craved other drugs. I had seen the effects of heroin on some of my family, so maybe that was a part of knowledge I had and other didn't, but no one I even knew pushed me on it. Shit I hung out with people happily doing coke and sharing it, but ONLY if you asked. No one tried to make you do it. (Three now)

Finally, after discussing it with my parents, I find out that my mother was an on and off pot smoker, and my dad wasn't a drug user, but he didn't disparage it, he just preferred alcohol as his drug of choice. (Which was ACTUALLY a major issue in our family, not that DARE seemed to care)

And in the end, it comes clean that everything they told us about Pot was a lie. Everything they said was either full out false, or left out convenient details that explained WHY. Not that they were "worthless junkies" (actual phrase used).

That started some of my questioning about what we were taught and told by authority figures that had a position of power to hold would tell us anything to nod and agree with them, regardless of the facts.

I didn't think about what other stuff that could affect though. 9/11 happened when I was in 6th grade, and as many other Americans can attest, we were riled up into a fervor to support the troops, that "they hated our freedom", that terrorists were gonna get you unless you pledge your support undying to the United States. And I believe that for way to long. It took me much longer that it should have to see the flaws and lies that were told to us over and over and over by people we were told we could trust.

So how does this relate to Hamas?

As more and more is becoming clear about the lies and abuse we endure, and the lies and abuse we have seen especially by Israel, it is fair to ask I believe, is Hamas the bad guy? Did we take the statements of "Terrorist Group" as fact and "Rebellion against Annihilation" as bullshit?

I don't know. I'm not saying that as a cop out, I am saying I LITERALLY do not know. I have been told the Western story over and over and over and I don't know the truth.

But what if we were wrong? What if it was another lie that was done to make us angry at the wrong people?

This is the issue that arises. After a certain amount of government lies, tricks, torture, abuse domestic and foreign, can we trust what the government told us? They had a chance to tell me the truth when I was young, and they instead chose to lie to me, to treat me as something they could mold into their sick image of a "good citizen" instead of another human.

As I said, I don't know enough about Hamas to say if the labels are wrong, and I encourage everyone (Pro AND Anti) to share information so we can all be more educated.

But we have been lied to many times.

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Drinking and Driving story: As I said, DARE left out details that made things easier to understand, I think on purpose. One of those that could just be in the "fucking stupid to not clarify" was drinking and driving. So after that class, that weekend, my father and I go to McDonalds, and get our usual.

And then my father *gasp* started driving while sucking on his straw.

I was distraught, my OWN father drinking and driving? And I confronted him on it, and his could only look at me bewildered and say "Son, that's for alcohol, not Coke" and that's how I learned what drink meant in that context.

[garlicbreadslice]

I want to buy this DARE hoodie but I don’t know how to make it clear that I’m wearing it ironically… I have the hardest life 😞

[queer-boo-radley]

[bizarrobrain]

"Marijuana" by McGruff the Crime Dog

[bobthebenevolentpirate]

Oh my god holy shit no that is not what's happening.

You absolutely cannot extract cocaine out of adderall–it's a controlled substance because it can create physical dependency and potential for misuse is very high. Adderall is amphetamine salts, and it's a chemical cousin to meth. Cocaine and amphetamines are both stimulants, and while they work differently they both increase the amount of dopamine available in the synapse, which is the thing that's effective in treating ADHD.

Also, for the record, the experience smellmyhead describes is pretty much just what would be expected from doing cocaine. It's one of the substances that works somewhat like how D.A.R.E. usually described things, with rapid onset of effects (a "rush") followed by marked comedown (a "crash") that can lead to immediately wanting to re-dose after doing it once. It doesn't, as D.A.R.E. liked to say, cause immediate addiction because physical dependence takes more than a single instance to develop.

But cocaine absolutely will cause increased focus, like that's pretty hallmark for any stimulant, so for anyone still reading this if you did any stimulant ever and you focused better you don't necessarily need to get tested for ADHD, you just experienced one of the main effects and reasons people take stimulants. If you have several other symptoms of ADHD that you've noticed significantly impeding your ability to function tho, for sure seek out ADHD testing 👍

how this guy lost the war on drugs is a mystery to me

[petrifiedchild]

hey guys wanna be friends i'll give you a first hand view of why D.A.R.E. is important and how drugs ruin your life and everybody's life you know lol

[absolutelybatty]

If you did, please tag the year you were born.

[i3oobzz]

after i passed outXD

[xmybipolarmindx]

Guest Post: Follow My Journey by Jea Ward

Dear Jim, It’s taken me a long time to get around to writing this letter. I’ve been putting it off for years, to be honest, I suppose that I was waiting for you to get in touch with me. I’m writing because I have questions. I have complaints. People like to say that you can’t miss something that you’ve never had, but that’s a lie. I’ve never had you in my life like you should have been all these…

[cokiemace]

Victoria Justice

[tinygiantstuff]

Dont do drugs kids

“Oh- Hello little guy! Are you a borrower? Do-“

“No, you gotta listen to me, I’m a normal sized person who’s been shrunk and I need help.”

“Oh my god, yeah, of course. What do you need?”

“I’m too fucking small to hit my elfbar and it’s been two hours without nicotine and I’m losing my goddamn mind, man.”

“Ah. I see. Okay, you’re going into the Cold Turkey Shoebox.”

“What? Wait-“

“You’ll be fine. I’ve helped plenty of shrunken ones quit the nic. You’re gonna feel so much better, dude.”

“NO PLEASE, I NEED MY BLUE RAZZ ICE, YOU CAN’T DO THIS TO M-“

[roaenexists]

i don't need MARIJUANA to get high i just STAND UP QUICKLY

[dontsweatthefresh]

(ICECOLDBISHOP)

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