[Daffynition]

Hello? Hello? This is a parent's responsibility. Hello? Anyone out there?

[highball]

"Please tell me how less is better," said Legislator Lynne Nowick, of St. James.

I swear. Morons. Is this the best the GOP can do?

Please tell me, Lynne, how repeating the same mistakes is better. If it's not working after 20 years, it's time to replace it.

[Larry Lucido]

“These are drugs. One of the side effects is a feeling of euphoria. But don’t take them because they are bad. And euphoric. Okay?”

[-YYZ-]

I’ve read that they’ve actually found that students who have done the DARE program go on to use drugs at a higher rate than those who haven’t. I couldn’t say why that would be - maybe it’s like when the newspapers are suddenly full of stories about some new drug craze that’s sweeping the nation, which prompts lots of people to go out and try it themselves (ice, crystal meth, jimson weed, datura, savlia, etc, etc)

[af_vet_rr]

Hello? Hello? This is a parent's responsibility. Hello? Anyone out there?

It's 2007 - the government has decided it knows how to raise your child.

[CatQuilt]

DARE - “Drugs Are Really Exciting”

[aruanan]

Students "are tuning us out, and that's why we haven't reduced drug use in our society," Dormer told the County Legislature's Public Safety Committee.

No, you idiot. You're informing them about what could happen through drug use and making it attractive. I remember the time the cops came to our high school for an information session for teachers and others about drugs. I and my 3 friends sat in the front row. The cop poured a nickel bag of pot into an ashtray at elbow level on the stage next to him and used a blowtorch to set it smoking. He then passed it around so parents (and others) could get a good smell of the evil weed. We each took a long sniff and were able to confirm that it did, indeed, smell like pot our ne'er-do-well friends were always using. After American History class in the auditorium, I ascertained that the blow torch had blown a considerable amount of weed out of the ashtray and onto the stage. Following the officer's example, my friends and I destroyed it by fire.

[VermiciousKnid]

Good riddance. DARE is a ridiculous waste of time, and I’m glad my youngest kid won’t have to waste HIS time with it.

Regards,

[Alberta's Child]

My anti-drug education was comprised of only two lessons:

The first was something along the lines of a DARE program in the 8th grade -- when a couple of local vice cops visited my school, met with classes in small groups, and told us about the dangers of drugs. One of them held up a bag of cocaine and asked if anyone could identify it. A kid in the class said it was cocaine, and the cop said he was wrong. "This is John Belushi," he said, dangling the bag in the air. "This is all that f#%&er ever was, and it's all he'll ever be."

The second lesson was from my dad while I was in high school. He told me that if I ever ran into any trouble with drugs or alcohol, he had one rule -- I had to talk to him about it. He said if he ever found out from someone other than myself that I had a problem with drugs or alcohol, he'd kill me. And I knew he meant it, too.