Is dare.org Safe?

These people are nothing more than frauds who, as other users have stated, indoctrinate children with lies about drugs; in particular cannabis. DARE is responsible for demonizing cannabis, a plant which has unprecedented medical benefits not to mention industrial hemp can be used to produce over 25,000 different products. DARE brainwash people from youth to reject cannabis in all of its forms and are largely responsible for slowing the progress of legalization.

They claim on their website, "Marijuana. It is one of the most dangerous drugs on Earth. For every one joint of marijuana, four teenagers become burdened with pregnancy." This is just an outright lie. Where's the data that supports your claim? As a child growing up in the early 90s, I was forced to participate in this brainwashing program. I honestly thought that marijuana was harmful up until a member of my family needed it to eat and sleep. What this agency is doing is indoctrinating the youth with misleading and fabricated information and forcing their worldview upon them. Stay away at all cost.

Top124 should refrain from commenting until he has grown up enough to have real life experience and to have developed his mind to the point where he can think for himself and have his OWN ideals...not ideals that he blindly subscribes to because they've been pounded into his mind since preschool. He's too young to even have a social group outside his family. Back to the point though, DARE really is extreme and they DO exaggerate the dangers of many drugs and the rest is, I'm afraid, shock value and fear-mongering. It's along the same lines of being shown disgusting STD photos during sex ed. Top124 should also consider doing some research of his own.

No interest in truth, just fear-mongering. Pushing and spreading anything that goes with their antiquated rhetoric while ignoring anything that doesn't. They were even duped into sharing an article that was blatantly satirical. ***** How do you expect youth to take your message seriously when it contains fanciful fear mongering and easily disproven and stale myths. Once you find out they lied about one thing or irresponsibly preached conjecture what's not to say their whole message is undermined? And to the individual who scoffed at the "There's nothing wrong with safe, responsible drug USE" comment here... You do realize doctors are prescribing drugs right? And when responsibly used have saved countless lives and avoided plenty of unnecessary suffering. The fact that you've never heard such sentiments is the problem, it's dissonant from reality and entirely counterproductive to the prevention of drug abuse. There's a reason noone can prove a measurable benefit from this program, which has existed for plenty long enough to know.

As someone who was forced to participate in this program, I must say that the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program is more interested in indoctrinating young and gullible minds that drugs are evil and always bad for you. This program seeks to brainwash kids in much the same way religious institutions attempt to do so, by filling the childrens' minds with opinions and unverified claims in the hopes that they will spread the word like the little mouthpieces they're trained to become. This program advocates total abstinence from any and all drugs and "teaches" children misinformation about them. They demonize drugs and treat them as guaranteed pathways to living like a bum. Instead of reporting the facts about drugs—such as how drug use is common and only dangerous when the drugs are misused or abused, or that addiction is nowhere near as common as purported, or that many drugs are non-addictive altogether—this program spreads lies and spouts baseless rhetoric in support for the infallible wisdom of law enforcement and drug legislators. Not only is this an injustice to the children, but it also does them a disservice for if and when their understanding of drugs is ever scrutinized. Drug abuse is a problem in society and I personally disapprove of recreational drug use. However, I'm not such a fool as to believe the propaganda spread demonizing and condemning drugs as effectively the Devil's work. The D.A.R.E. program is not to be trusted and regardless of whether you use drugs yourself or even approve of drug use at all, I would hope that you are at the very least a supporter of telling children the truth about reality. These cronies do just the opposite. We should teach our children about the dangers of drugs and its abuse in society, not indoctrinate them with lies and biases. Oh and one last thing I think should be mentioned: multiple studies by psychologists, sociologists, and social scientists have confirmed that the D.A.R.E. program has NO DISCERNIBLE EFFECT on participants and has been shown to even INCREASE the likelihood that children enrolled in the program will try certain illicit drugs, specifically hallucinogens and psychoactives. The D.A.R.E. program has, of course, dismissed these studies as incorrect, but the evidence is all there. Psychologists and medical professionals alike DISAPPROVE of this program and advise parents against allowing their children to participate in its indoctrination. Don't believe me? It's all on the D.A.R.E. Wikipedia article and is quite well-cited.

ALL USERS: LOOK AT THIS: this is part of crvwot's comment: quote: "The program LIES. There's nothing wrong with safe, responsible drug USE" @crvwot what the HECK?!!!!! i am a kid who went through D.A.R.E and i did NOT hear anything CLOSE to theres nothing wring with safe drug use. before making STUPID lies about a program that is FULLY EDUCTIONAL and drug use suggestion free, why dont you use your stupid freaking head and SMARTEN UP! even though i am a kid i know BETTER than to take advice from a stupid moron druggie like you! either stop lying or GET OFF WOT! to all users, I think D.A.R.E is a good site and should be taught to kids in every school. it is very interesting info about drug prevention and ive learned a lot. (please dont listen to people who say D.A.R.E is garbage because its not.) no viruses either.