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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is the DARE program ineffective? I have a 5 year old and 7 year old so I have very little experience with these issues.[/quote]

They are ineffective, like abstinence programs, because they tell kids to say no to all the stuff they will all experiment with at some point. [/quote]

Thank goodness this is not close to true. Not nearly every kid experiments with drugs (maybe, if you include alcohol it’s a majority, but even with that my DH, myself, & all my siblings never drank as teenagers). Unlike with sex, there is not natural urge to use illegal drugs. [/quote]

I think kids are more likely to not experiment if you give them factual education on the negatives of using drugs. The DARE program was fear based and essentially a lie. DARE portrays drug dealers as these raving lunatics offering drugs for free and they are instantly addictive. Then you are at a party with friends who end up smoking a joint while maintaining honors in school and all that DARE education is out the window.[/quote]

Yes this was one of the reasons I smoked way more pot that I should have. I found out that the studies they used to tell us that pot was bad weren’t done in humans and used a quantity of THC that would be almost impossible to take during recreational use. So it just seemed like adults once again lied to me to try to control my behavior. If they had told me it might make me stupid and depressed based on good studies I would have used but probably not every day. [/quote]

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