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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pot is legal.[/quote]

And this is why pot is a problem is DC. For as smart as we think we are, we conflate a simple decriminalization change with 'now you can cruise the street with a joint'. [/quote]

This is why I wont vote for the dumb shrooms initiative.  Do i care if you shroom? No. Do i care if your shroom in public, tear off all your clothes, rave and rant and scare kiddies with impunity? Yes. I totally forgot how selfish potheads are when i signed the pot prop, and I stupidly expected DC gov to maintain a where to use line.[/quote]

Yes, I'll be voting against the shroom initiative solely based on DC's completely dropping the ball on pot. I just don't trust the city to hold any sort of standard after its history with pot decriminalization.[/quote]

Totally, and after they tear their clothes off and scare the children, they'll be coming to rape our white women! Our street will be clogged with human statues unable to function because they think they're a glass of orange juice and if they move they'll tip over and spill!  Our hospitals and morgues will overflow with mushroom junkies who thought they could fly and jumped out a window! Our mental health system will be overwhelmed because doing hallucinogens more than 3 times means you are declared legally insane!

Jesus christ, stop getting your information on drugs from DARE.[/quote]

[b]DARE dealt in facts and reality. [/b]

You deal in histrionics and hyperbole. [/quote]

NP
Not so much. It's still ongoing, but you don't hear about  it much, because the research showed it either didn't help, or made things worse.

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While the program became ubiquitous in the country, it has been shown to have little lasting effect on actually reducing drug use.

A 1994 study of students in Illinois found those who had gone through the program were no less likely to use drugs, alcohol or cigarettes than students who had not participated in DARE, according to the National Institute of Justice.
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Another study published in 1996 found students in Kentucky who went through the DARE program were actually more likely to use cigarettes than those who did not go through DARE and were no less likely to use illicit drugs, according to the National Institute of Justice.

“Some of the research has shown (DARE) increases people’s curiosity, and other resources basically question the cost effectiveness of using expensive resources like police officers to do something that doesn’t really have an impact,” said Faye Taxman, professor of criminology at George Mason University. “It’s just about do you have a difference in the kids, but it’s about how we allocate our resources and the benefits that can come from that.”
https://cumberlink.com/news/local/closer_look/evidence-based-justice-dare-proves-ineffective/article_b85d88bf-ccfd-5c9a-b958-2da91dbc8abe.html[/quote]

It made for good optics for people who wanted to feel good about it. The facts and reality are that it did not change rates of drug use, unless it was in the wrong direction. 
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