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I was a teenage DARE ambassador, taught younger kids how uncool drugs were. But that wasn't nearly as effective as the time I drew a caricature of the class's newest drug user and a friend made 50 copies of it. Major fireworks, major drama, and all adults who wanted to know were now in the know. I may have almost destroyed that poor thing's life, but in doing so I believe I found a faster-acting solution than DARE, at least for kids who didn't want their parents to know.

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that's...uncool. most people grow out of drug experimentation naturally and never look back. you might have actually fucked that person's life up, compared to if you had done nothing. that's no solution, that's just plain mean.

Tongue in cheek solution. No one should do this. The fireworks enveloped us all.

Your example made me smile. Unmoderated peer pressure is more effective than DARE. Should you be getting all that grant money? We can only dream.

I want to say something in my defense but I think it'll just make it worse. Hook, line and sinker.

Not as uncool as smoking green, according to DARE. :P

As a kid, hearing that kids were taking drugs, I always wondered what I was missing out on. The one thing that didn't make me want to take drugs were the ads saying "most kids don't smoke or do drugs".

But then everything changed when I went to college in my mid-20s and developed a strong cannabis habit. It gave purpose to my life. I'm still a daily smoker, years later, with a fulfilling job and good friends.

I live and work in the emerald triangle now. There are so many stories like yours that it's more of a nuanced discussion: For whom, and at what age, is how much of which variant too much? :P

It seems to me that the best way is simply to severely punish any kid caught taking drugs. And do hair tests to make sure they're caught.

You do realize that every President of the US in the last 2 decades has smoked pot and in some cases used harder drugs, right? Oppressive police state tactics are rarely a good idea, whether dealing with kids or otherwise.

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