So, i was just thinking... When i was in elementary and middle school, i was a pretty naughty kid always getting into trouble and hangin with the kids who had fun and we all caused chaos. But, we never did drugs or smoked. lol.. At least i didnt, i dont know if some of them did. I remember being in elementary school and looking down on 'pot heads' and never wanting to have anything to do with it... Drawing the NO DRUGS posters and going to the DARE school assemblies... (I lumped 'pot heads' in with other drugs, although now i dont feel that smoking pot is nearly as bad as the mainstream says and thinks it is, but whatever floats your boat.) However, its funny looking at myself today and seeing how much my views have changed and now, i hit it up almost every day. I only started smoking in the past 6 months and im 23. It took me a while to finally start lol. But i was wondering, how many of you grew up like that, being 'anti-drugs' and 'anti-marijuana', but now have 'switched over' lol just a random thought i had.
in middle school, when i started DARE, i came up with, what i call, the "3-D's": Don't Do Drugs. i wrote that in everyone's year book. lol yeahhh... i am also a DARE graduate, and DARE never told us to say no to drugs, we have the right to say no. but then think about it, they want us to do drugs. if we dont do drugs, then what are the cops suppose to do???? this is coming from a sociological perspective.
I was anti drugs, smoking, drinking, etc until I hit high school. Oh and I still have my D.A.R.E shirt. Gonna wear it to a music festival where everyone smokes/trips/rolls/etc. one of these days lol. And I used to think D.A.R.E was the coolest shit ever. Ah to be young again lol.
Wow, middle school? I remember DARE being a week long, half an hour a day thing where a cop would come talk to us, until 5th grade. I never heard anything else of it again the rest of my school career. Are they really that hard up nowdays?
yeah it wore off pretty quick for me, actually maybe lasted hmm a year? mine was back in like 4th grade, the stickers really disappointed, that's why I was in school after all
for the most part, so was i..i was a dare graduate in elementary school and im sure i still have the shirt somewhere hahaha it used to be so big on me now im sure itll fit better lol.
That's exactly why I'm gonna wear it lol and because of the irony of course. I still remember what my cop looked like. Crazy stuff.
well, for me, DARE started in the 5th frade. i forgot to wear my DARE shirt once, so i had to write a 30-word essay about why i didnt wear it. hardest thing everr... then we had DARE again in middle school. thinking about it now, it was DARE who introduced me to drugs. lol but i didnt start smoking until i was 17. i wish i still had my DARE shirt.
my D.A.R.E program was just a week of videos and hands on things (Like a jar full of cigarette tar they said was in your lungs, and two pig lungs, one smoker and one not) in 6th grade. After D.A.R.E I thought drugs were bad, but never really thought I would do them. Then Juinor year, I started smoking.
haha thats whats so funny. i never wanted to be any part of it... and now i smoke all the time... how ironic 30 word essay hahaha fail!!! im sure you can pick up a shirt on ebay i might get a new one and wear it sometime lol i want a black one though mine is grey. i hate grey shirts for some reason
lol black would be too hot in this sun ive seen the black ones with red lettering. im pretty sure they sell them at hot topic too, now that i think about it haha. ima get one
I used to be a goody-good, and hated drugs. So strange how this world and the encompassed events subjectively unfold, eh?
yeah, i was pretty anti-drugs for a while. i always knew i was going to at least try, though... i even only promised in my dare book to not drink or do drugs until i was 18. which i still broke, but whatever. i still have my dare shirt, too. i honestly don't know why they were so huge, though. i'm still swimming in mine, so how did they expect that to fit a 5th grader?
D.A.R.E. is a joke, even the federal government admits it is useless. According to a report on youth violence the surgeon general put out in 2001..... Source In fact some studies have shown DARE graduates are more likely to use marijuana. So it doesn't work at its primary aim of preventing drug use, so what does it do? Well for one it encourages students to narc on their parents without being fully aware of the consequences. It is also really good at wasting money, taking in close to $700 million a year from federal and state governments, businesses taking tax breaks by making donations, and police departments. Granted this was in the mid-90s, not sure what their budget looks like these days, but the point stands, they piss away a lot of cash for no benefit to society. Further it does a disservice to youth by not being honest and open about the degrees of danger between various illegal substances. As many DARE graduates will tell you, they leave the program believing cannabis to be on the same level as harder drugs. Despite these colossal failures the program is still going strong. Boggles the mind.
