D.A.R.E. Doesn't Know the Difference Between Real and Fake News About Marijuana

[Panich52]

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D.A.R.E. Doesn't Know the Difference Between Real and Fake News About Marijuana

Honest, science-based drug education has long been acknowledged as a cornerstone in the prevention of drug abuse among teenagers. Yet for decades, young people have been exposed, indeed bombarded, with messages about marijuana that are exaggerated. Many are just plain false. The latest "installment" of such scare tactics comes from an old source, Drug Abuse Resistance Education, aka D.A.R.E.

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In 80s or 90s there was an urban legend that warned about flashing your lights to tell oncoming driver their lights were off. The myth was that it was a trap - a gang initiation and flashing your lights targeted you as their victim. It was total BS, but DARE spread it as fact. Any modicum of respect I had for the group was destroyed by that naitivity.

[In_The_Wind]

1. I remember that myth. It really scared me.

[olddots]

2. theres big easy money in drug testing

follow the money .

[Tom Ripley]

6. ^^^THIS^^^

[KamaAina]

3. DARE's creator? None other than Daryl Gates.

Yup, that Daryl Gates.

[TlalocW]

4. All I know is

Your brains are eggs, and drugs are a frying pan or somethin'.

TlalocW

[TheKentuckian]

5. DARE is and always has been stupid so par for the course.

[Archae]

7. In Green Bay, WI a cop in that program sold fake parking permits to Lambaeu Field.

Made a lot of ca$h.

[MisterP]

8. local PDs also really helped push the "Satanic ritual abuse" scare

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faxlore