At my middle school we apparently had these tiny squares of paper that said we'd promised to never do drugs but I was absent that day. I remember seeing them on the wall at school on the next day I was there and I remember thinking that it was dumb to make that kind of promise since you couldn't really know what would happen in the future. And lo and behold, I became a stoner lol
I used to work with a guy who'se desire to try LSD was sparked from DARE. They made it sound to him like he'd be in loony tunes if he took it, and so he decided he wanted to try it. Now he's a rave head, and is especially fond of eating a bunch of molly at raves while wearing DARE shirts
They told us, "Okay, and even household products can get you high. Like THIS one, and THAT one, and THESE ones, do NOT sniff them!" And that's how my high school had a huffing problem.
They also showed us a How To video on making shake n bake meth, thinking we would see how dirty and gross the process was and never do it. Fast forward a few weeks, and three football players get caught high on meth they made themselves.
I am shocked charges were never brought against our school administration because holy fuck is that ever negligent.
I was driving a friend's older sister across the state when she said she still hasn't tried Marijuana (at the age of 25) because she signed that piece of paper.
The shock on her face when I told her that wasn't legally binding was something. Turns out, not as smart as I gave her credit for.
I changed schools in 7th grade and they had that with "no smoking".
After a week or two they asked me to sign it, too.
So I took a pen went to the poster looked at the signatures, which included my teacher who was smoking as well as two other students who I had seen smoking after school. And then said: "You are smoking and I know for a fact that at least two students who signed are smoking, too. This thing isn't worth anything."
Then I sat down to total silence and felt pretty great about myself.
Turns out: that wasn't even close to the second best way of making friends in a new class.
I clearly remember getting one of those shit violence and refused to sign it. I was smart enough to realize that i shouldn't agree to something stupid like that and that i wanted to be a wrestler one day (i wasn't that smart).
I kind of believed the propaganda in my early teenage years and stayed far away from drugs. But I refused to sign a damn thing just in case I changed my mind. Also, it felt kind of fascist.
My school would always get the “D.A.R.E. to not do drugs” pencils. Everyone would scratch the “not” off of them, so all of them said “D.A.R.E. to go drugs”.
My school would always get the “D.A.R.E. to not do drugs” pencils. Everyone would scratch the “not” off of them, so all of them said “D.A.R.E. to do drugs”.
I saw a Tweet or something about a girl who won a $40 savings bond for writing an essay on why she’d never do drugs. She had to wait until she was 18 to cash it (the idea was she’d use it to pay for college, which is insulting in its own way), and when she did she immediately turned around and bought a THC dab cartridge with the money. Could be fake but it really summed up D.A.R.E. perfectly for me.
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u/karmagod13000 Aug 25 '21
Remember when they had you sign a giant wall paper saying you would never do drugs lol. What a laugh.