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This is catnip. This is your brain on catnip. (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 6 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Brought to you by D.A.R.E.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

    A favorite sociology professor of mine. Her first job after grad school was with the RAND Corporation. Her first assignment was to measure the effectiveness of the DARE program. She did her job, and found that DARE was slightly effective for 8th grade boys, no other group. Her bosses thanked her, paid her, and shelved her findings because the Reagan administration didn't want to hear it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    DARE was around during bush Jr's administration too.

    I don't want kids doing drugs, but just telling them not to do it isn't going to help anything. Just like age verification for porn sites, leave it up to the parents, make the parents responsible for it

    And obviously some drugs are way worse than others, like meth, crack and fent being way worse than pot. But even pot can cause genuine mental issues if you do it too much. Boomers from both sides of the isle are just use fear and ignorance for compliance. Actually educating kids about what kinds of shit will happen to you if you do drugs would've been way more effective at keeping people sober

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Giving children something to do and talking to them at eye level is the most effective at preventing drug abuse. If a child has hobbies they enjoy they are a lot less likely to develop a drug addiction as they don't need the dopamine from drugs

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    You make a really good point.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    It has been scientifically proven that children who have a wide range of activities in their area are a lot less likely to develop substance addictions. It is very nice to know but also depressing to see what is actually done in most places. I think Zürich was it that has a well working drug policy.

    Interesting read about the topic(in German): https://stefanakweichelt.substack.com/p/willkommen-in-zombieland

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    leave it up to the parents, make the parents responsible for it

    Just like how leaving recycling up to the individual has absolutely solved the problem of pollution and waste and abstinence-only education solved the issue of abortion.

    Respectfully, I disagree. It's good to educate young people, even if it's not 100% effective.

    The real failing regarding drugs in this country was criminalizing marijuana so a handful of people could get vulgarly rich running private prisons and selling slave labor.

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    • [–] 5 points 1 month ago*

    https://youtu.be/3scQ0wq5zLE?is=ImY8T-Pmu-7j2Bh1

    I can’t add anything funnier than this old bit.

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    [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Seems happy. I want to be happy.

    -injects the evil catnip-

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    [–] 1 point 1 month ago*

    Ok, now what about silvervine?

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    [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    The little seems to be having a life changing revelation. Or staring into the abyss. Maybe both.

    Does the aftermath results in tenderness and asking for attention or violence and menaces?

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