Reply #104: Calling it a joke is being kind.

[JoeyT]

My DARE brainwashing lasted all of about an hour: Just long enough for me to verify with someone that smoked pot that the entire section on pot was utter horseshit. Then I tried it to see who was lying. (Hint: It was the cop.) Of course pretty much everyone knew the section on marijuana was lies, and since it was obvious the cop was a bad source of information, no one took any of the rest of it seriously either.

I think any program that's based almost entirely on "Let's lie to the children for their own good! Sure they'll find out we're full of shit later, but if we brainwash hard enough it might stick!" to be completely worthless.

Later our DARE cop ended up getting busted for smoking crack because he was dumb enough to pull his car behind a local business to smoke it and they got the entire thing on video.