We had a whole school meeting in the auditorium about these little things people were making with paperclips that snapped and felt like a bee sting when you were hit with them. Not only did it raise awareness of the thing throughout the entire school, they were stupid enough to show us how to make them and use them to inflict bee stings.
That’s literally how they did it. 1990’s small town. They pulled drugs out of their evidence and had the kids pass the bags around so we could recognize them. Half being white powder so uhh I was like 7. What we all came away with was they sounded fun. The one drug they made seem scary and we’d have shadowy figures behind a gas station offering was fucking steroids. I’m not even sure steroids are illegal. And not like any of us were in elementary on a sports scholarship
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My fourteen year old daughter went to OG drug school. She came home one day from her boyfriend’s house and told me that his mom showed her Meth in a baggie and told her, “Don’t ever do this stuff, it will ruin your life.” It was a pretty good lesson, I’d say, because boyfriend’s mom didn’t have any teeth, and she was rail thin and couldn’t stop talking. She was a messed up adult. I was glad for everyone’s sake that she meant well (as well as she possibly could - she wasn’t such a great parent, and my daughter’s young boyfriend died within a few months in an automobile accident). That town we lived in was full of small town tragedies.
There’s a whole ass documentary on YT about DARE and how they were literally one of the most shady organizations I’ve ever heard about it’s worth a watch
That reminds me of a story I heard of some guy who had a police pass out 2 blunts for everyone in class to see and said he better get them both back at the end.
He got back 3 at the end. I'm pretty sure it was a joke but it also wouldn't surprise me if it was real.
I’m from Australia, we didn’t have DARE or anything in my school, but we were still so warned about performance enhancing drugs like steroids vs you know, actually dangerous drugs, that when I was put on steroids for the first time for an asthma attack/flare - I had a mild panic attack and asked if I could get in any trouble at work for taking them 🤣 I was 25.
This sounds like the urban legend where the cop passes a joint around the class so the kids will be able to recognize it, only to have a substitute wad of paper returned to him.
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We had a whole school meeting in the auditorium about these little things people were making with paperclips that snapped and felt like a bee sting when you were hit with them. Not only did it raise awareness of the thing throughout the entire school, they were stupid enough to show us how to make them and use them to inflict bee stings.