• Nobody@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I was disappointed to find out that people aren’t aggressively offering you free drugs everywhere you go. Those DARE bastards lied to me.

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      10 months ago

      The only people who have offered me drugs are friends who were offering to be polite. I always decline, but use the phrase “No thank you” to let them know I appreciate the gesture.

  • Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    My arms were folded like that when I realized cannabis does not in fact make you go crazy or do unspeakable things. So many lies for so many decades. All for what, as now it is 100% legal in my country and almost all the stats are positive not negative. Why is no one being held accountable for the blatant lies?

  • plz1@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Children can’t legally sign a contract, so D.A.R.E. has no authority (and never did).

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      10 months ago

      Yeah they were right about shit like heroin and meth, I knew enough people who threw their lives away to that shit. But my stoner friends were successful and chill. It’s the only drug I care for. I know about benefits of psychedelics but it isn’t for me.

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      10 months ago

      Geez I don’t know, maybe it’s because tobacco is wildly more toxic and carcinogenic. Maybe it’s because tobacco causes hundreds of thousands of deaths every year. Or perhaps it’s because tobacco is loaded with thousands of equally as toxic additives. Just spit balling here.

  • Wogi@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I was one of the very small number of children that bought that bullshit, that all drugs are bad and what have you, but even I thought signing that pledge was kinda fucked up. Like you were required to sign it, we didn’t have a choice.

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      10 months ago

      Like you were required to sign it, we didn’t have a choice.

      Only years later with exposure to contract law did we learn about that pledge lacking “equal consideration” rendering the document null and void.

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    10 months ago

    Pretty sure you’d have seen a shit show for anyone who chose not to sign. Especially in like 5th grade when you got this stuff. Most 10 years olds are scared shitless by cops.

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        10 months ago

        Meh, seems to be both. Don’t get me wrong, alcohol is way worse overall. But in my experience the biggest gateway drug to harder stuff is music festivals and learned household behavior from kids in shitty situations.