D.A.R.E is a scam

I would like to jump into the thread at this point to say that the "just say no," DARE, etc., training I received in grade school in the 80s is the fucking stupidest shit I've ever seen, and now, in my mid 40s, I'm honestly at a loss as to what to think of it.

I mean... they warned us, repeatedly,... in grade school that drug dealers would give us free samples to get us hooked. Lets take that claim seriously for a moment.

That would mean that there's some nefarious adult drug dealer who has decided that the best possible route to grow his business is to go to 12 year olds, who have no income and no independent means of transportation, and get them hooked on addictive substances. To... what? Get them so spend their allowances? Get them to convince their parents to drive them to their fucking dealer to get a hit? This is clearly fucking ridiculous.

But, maybe, the thought was to get them hooked now, so that later, when they have a job, they become a customer. Ok, lets think about that.

So, the business plan is to get a 12 year old hooked now, so that 6+ years from now, when they have a minimum wage job, shitty car, and crappy apartment, they are going to remember the dealer in middle school who gave them a free hit and call them up for more? ... seriously?

None of it passes the sniff test (i.e. it smells like bullshit). And yet, someone, somewhere, at a high level of government, came up with this idea, proposed it, got it approved, and eventually thousands of people got paid to go to hundreds of thousands of grade and middle schools to pitch this idea.

So I'm forced to wonder at this point... Were the adults in the 80s fucking morons? Or is it the case the jadism of Gen-X so extreme that it ripped off an absurd rose color veil that lead the people of the previous generations to think that that was a good fucking idea and made perfect sense?

Seriously. I'm really wondering this.

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