D.A.R.E. OP-ED Calls For Legalization

MinnBobber

MinnBobber

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Jambi619 said:
Is this the real life?

I support legalization precisely because I want to reduce youths’ drug use. Drug dealers don’t care about a customer’s age. The answer isn’t prohibition and incarceration; the answer is regulation and education.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/07/dare-calls-for-marijuana-legalization.html
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Well it's about time that someone from D.A.R.E. dared to use their brain and think this issue thru rather than their mindless "just say no" BS.
If mj was legal AND states didn't get greedy with taxing it, black market bud would be history....
 
CarolKing

CarolKing

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Thank you for sharing that with us. I remember it like it was yesterday both my children had DARE one day a week with officer #*+#. I still remember his name. They encouraged kids to snitch on their parents if there was any marijuana use in the household.

This was a reason that I couldn't be open with my children about cannabis. The schools and DARE Officers were telling them one sided views on the evils of pot. For the most part I would partake after they were in bed and I would burn incense to hide the smell. I was made to feel like I was doing something really bad. I didn't have to feel that way but society made it that way.

That is really wonderful news I still have DARE nightmares. Back in the day your children could be taken away because of our fav plant. Other parts of the U.S are still like that. Things need to change all over not just a few states.:rockon::2c:
 
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herbivore21

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CarolKing said:
Thank you for sharing that with us. I remember it like it was yesterday both my children had DARE one day a week with officer #*+#. I still remember his name. They encouraged kids to snitch on their parents if there was any marijuana use in the household.

This was a reason that I couldn't be open with my children about cannabis. The schools and DARE Officer were telling them one sided views on the evils of pot. For the most part I would partake after they were in bed and I would burn incense to hide the smell. I was made to feel like I was doing something really bad. I didn't have to feel that way but society made it that way.

That is really wonderful news I still have DARE nightmares.
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That is awful seriously, turning the family unit against each other over moral panic.

I hope that in the future, noone will ever have to hide their perfectly reasonable decisions from their children.

What families need is more openness, not less!
 
Jambi619

Jambi619

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I remember DARE just making me more interested in drugs. It's like I got a lil brochure telling me about all these things and their effects and cannabis and psychedelics really appealed to me.

I personally opted my son out of DARE and just talked with him about drugs myself. That Shona Banda story is insane!
 
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capcoho

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"Anyone who suggests we outlaw everything dangerous to children would also have to ban stairs, Tylenol, bleach, forks and outlet sockets and definitely alcohol. Those things harm children every day, but anyone championing that we ban them would be laughed at.

I support legalization precisely because I want to reduce youths’ drug use. Drug dealers don’t care about a customer’s age. The answer isn’t prohibition and incarceration; the answer is regulation and education."

Sorry I don't know how to quote this properly from the article. But I think these are extremely valid points.
 
RUDE BOY

RUDE BOY

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I would think they had to take the post off their website 'cause they are still actively working in schools spouting the same crap they always have. The D.A.R.E. program is unfortunately alive and well in schools where I live and not a relic of the past like many seem to think.
 
CarolKing

CarolKing

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I found this from 2012 for WA state. It probably depends on where you live in the U.S

DARE curriculum drops pot
Posted: Nov 05, 2012 11:45 AM PSTUpdated: Nov 05, 2012 11:45 AM PST
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KENNEWICK, Wash. -The students who graduated Monday from Kennewick's DARE program will be the last to be taught the potential dangers of marijuana.

Nearly 100 fifth graders at Sunset View Elementary accepted their diplomas after the ten week course, which discourages kids from tobacco, alcohol, and drugs. But DARE officer Mike Meyer says the national dare organization has removed the discussion of marijuana from the curriculum.

"The new curriculum starts as of December for us here in Kennewick. It does not bring up the subject of marijuana at all."

Meyer has been Kennewick's DARE officer for six years. He says he devotes an entire lesson on marijuana.

Meyer says he doesn't know why the national parent organization that oversees the DARE program has deleted marijuana from the program.

On Tuesday, Voters in Washington State decide Initiative 502, which would regulate and tax sales of marijuana. If passed, the measure faces a possible court challenge by the Justice Department.

The Washington State Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs opposes the Initiative 502.

I do know that our local elementary school doesn't have the DARE program any longer. Not sure about middle school.
CK
 
CarolKing

CarolKing

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YOU ARE AT:Home»Funny»Stoner Move: D.A.R.E. Mistakenly Announces Support for Marijuana Legalization

Stoner Move: D.A.R.E. Mistakenly Announces Support for Marijuana Legalization
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BY MONTEREY BUD ON JULY 31, 2015FUNNY, MARIJUANA NEWS, OPINION
On Monday a funny thing happened to the highly contentious folks at D.A.R.E. — someone accidentally hit the ‘Post’ button and ended up publishing an inadvertent pro-marijuana legalization Op-ed piece.

Initially some thought the Drug War propagandists at D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) had an epiphany – a moment of clarity. Unfortunately for the truth, this fleeting moment of lucidity was little more than a Freudian slip.
 
Jambi619

Jambi619

Cannabis Crusader
Yea I just saw that it was an accident. Mofos read the headline but not the article lol Still, it's a prolegalization article written by a former cop, nothing to scoff at
 
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