[spacemanmatt]

When the DARE officer said stuff like this to us as 7th graders, we laughed.

It's maybe less funny today but ridicule remains the appropriate response.

[dkarl]

The DARE officer said drugs would fry your brain, and the kids taking and selling drugs said it was a lie to stop people from having an easy harmless good time. Considering the drugs that kids were taking at my high school, I wouldn't say either side covered themselves in glory.

[spacemanmatt]

> I wouldn't say either side covered themselves in glory.

heh. that's mostly fair, though DARE waged a propaganda campaign entirely unmatched by teenage druggies, who are mostly just people trying to get by.