This is the era of the school anti-drug program D.A.R.E. A lot of money was spent on this, and it completely failed, but at least it can serve as a demonstration of what not to to to do.
D.A.R.E. was created by people who knew nothing about illegal drugs. They’d grown up in the 1950s and were shown Reefer Madness as kids and therefore believed that marijuana lead directly to the use of harder drugs. It was a gateway drug.
So the whole point of D.A.R.E. was to keep the kids from ever trying marijuana. The program did this through lies. It lied to children about how addictive and how destructive the drug was. That worked in the 1950s, when white kids in the suburbs didn’t know anyone who was getting high. But by the 1980s, the situation had changed. The result was that the children in the D.A.R.E. program knew they were being lied to.
D.A.R.E. claimed that marijuana use quickly lead to smoking crack or injecting cocaine and a ruined life.. But the kids in the program told their friends, “My brother Chad has been getting high all the time for years and he’s about to graduate from college.” Or “My sister and her friends smoke pot and one of them is the school valedictorian.”
In short, if you want to convince children not to use illegal drugs, don’t try to do it with easily disproved lies.
The dude from FL Premium Member 2 months ago
There is no reason our LEGAL drugs are so expensive.
smsrt 2 months ago
Oh, now that just opened up a can of Opus worms!
Ed The Red Premium Member 2 months ago
This is the era of the school anti-drug program D.A.R.E. A lot of money was spent on this, and it completely failed, but at least it can serve as a demonstration of what not to to to do.
D.A.R.E. was created by people who knew nothing about illegal drugs. They’d grown up in the 1950s and were shown Reefer Madness as kids and therefore believed that marijuana lead directly to the use of harder drugs. It was a gateway drug.
So the whole point of D.A.R.E. was to keep the kids from ever trying marijuana. The program did this through lies. It lied to children about how addictive and how destructive the drug was. That worked in the 1950s, when white kids in the suburbs didn’t know anyone who was getting high. But by the 1980s, the situation had changed. The result was that the children in the D.A.R.E. program knew they were being lied to.
D.A.R.E. claimed that marijuana use quickly lead to smoking crack or injecting cocaine and a ruined life.. But the kids in the program told their friends, “My brother Chad has been getting high all the time for years and he’s about to graduate from college.” Or “My sister and her friends smoke pot and one of them is the school valedictorian.”
In short, if you want to convince children not to use illegal drugs, don’t try to do it with easily disproved lies.
win.45mag 2 months ago
Keep those coke prices shored up, or we’ll punch you in the kisser.( In Russian, punch means stab, and kisser means annus hole.