DARE publishes op-ed calling for marijuana legalization

[Origanalist]

Purchasing marijuana puts kids at risk

Posted on July 27, 2015 by D.A.R.E. in Drug Legalization and Student Drug Use, Hometown, Ohio, Spotlight



A letter to the editor by CARLIS McDERMENT.
From The Columbus Dispatch.

As a former deputy sheriff, I know from enforcing senseless marijuana laws that children only are being put in more danger when marijuana is kept illegal (“ Legal pot poses another threat to children,” July 8 letter from Dr. Johanna Said). The term “controlled substance” is very misleading.

The goal of prohibiting marijuana was to eradicate its use, but in reality, the drug has become infinitely harder for law enforcement to control. People like me, and other advocates of marijuana legalization, are not totally blind to the harms that drugs pose to children.

We just happen to know that legalizing and regulating marijuana will actually make everyone safer. Merely decriminalizing it will do nothing to undercut the dangerous illicit market that is currently selling to kids everywhere.

more at link...http://www.dare.org/purchasing-marij...-kids-at-risk/

[dannno]

[Dr.3D]

Looks like they took the page down.

[donnay]

DARE already introduced and showed the kids how to use it.

[Origanalist]

Looks like they took the page down.

Pffft, should have known.

[Dianne]

Marijuana is not for me, at all. My daughter had me try it for stress relief a few weeks ago; and I almost to the point of asking her to call an ambulance. I become totally paranoid, afraid of being out of control ... whatever symptom I need to self-destruct comes out with MJ.

I'll leave it to you guys, as I applaud your right to use if .. But for me, no thanks !!

[dannno]

Marijuana is not for me, at all. My daughter had me try it for stress relief a few weeks ago; and I almost to the point of asking her to call an ambulance. I become totally paranoid, afraid of being out of control ... whatever symptom I need to self-destruct comes out with MJ.

I'll leave it to you guys, as I applaud your right to use if .. But for me, no thanks !!

Was it indica or sativa?

[Origanalist]

Marijuana is not for me, at all. My daughter had me try it for stress relief a few weeks ago; and I almost to the point of asking her to call an ambulance. I become totally paranoid, afraid of being out of control ... whatever symptom I need to self-destruct comes out with MJ.

I'll leave it to you guys, as I applaud your right to use if .. But for me, no thanks !!

I don't like it, never did.

[ThePaleoLibertarian]

I remember in fifth grade we had an officer come to our class for the DARE program. Within six years, everyone in that class was either drinking, smoking or popping something.

[thoughtomator]

I didn't even know that any intoxicant besides alcohol existed until the drug warriors introduced me to them. I'm guessing my experience was not atypical for middle-class suburban kids.

[kcchiefs6465]

That's funny.

I seem to recall a certain DARE pig coming by my house frequently after I argued that marijuana did not destroy brain cells. His counterpoint was that marijuana caused certain death by way of cancer (as he had no idea what studies he was parroting).

Even showed me an authentic black lung. Pumped air in it and everything. Ah, good times-- learning and what-nots.

Guy drove by my house all the time after that and had the nerve to act like he was going to ticket my mother, as I was maybe 11 or 12 at the time, for urinating behind my own shrubs.

Last I saw, he was driving around in a Corvette with the decal of, "Taken From a Drug Dealer."

[kcchiefs6465]

Well, I couldn't find the exact Corvette (it was some purple, flamboyant thing) so I suppose an Escalade will have to suffice.

The Cadillac will be assigned to the department School Resource/D.A.R.E. Officer, Brian Zywicki and also used for special events.

I am curious, are they ready to return the loot?

[heavenlyboy34]

I remember in fifth grade we had an officer come to our class for the DARE program. Within six years, everyone in that class was either drinking, smoking or popping something.

That was my experience with the D.A.R.E. program too. (late 80s, early 90's era. Not at all far removed from Ronnie and Nancy Ray-guns' drug war mongering)

[timosman]

Looks like they took the page down.

Cached page - http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...-kids-at-risk/

[Origanalist]

Well, I couldn't find the exact Corvette (it was some purple, flamboyant thing) so I suppose an Escalade will have to suffice.





I am curious, are they ready to return the loot?

I kind of doubt it.

[Occam's Banana]

Well, I couldn't find the exact Corvette (it was some purple, flamboyant thing) so I suppose an Escalade will have to suffice.

http://i.imgur.com/blE1AbE.jpg?1

The Cadillac will be assigned to the department School Resource/D.A.R.E. Officer, Brian Zywicki and also used for special events.

I am curious, are they ready to return the loot?

I kind of doubt it.

Gangstas gotta be representin', yo ...

[jct74]

related story from a few months ago:

D.A.R.E. gets duped by anti-pot satire

By Christopher Ingraham
May 4, 2015

"Marijuana candies, sold on the street as ‘Uncle Tweety’s Chewy Flipper’ and ‘Gummy Satans’ are taking the country by storm." That's the breathless opening sentence of a news story posted on the Web site of D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), the infamous anti-drug organization that sends police into schools to teach kids about the dangers of drug use.

After I called to inquire about it, D.A.R.E. removed the story immediately without commenting. But it's been preserved at the Internet Archive, and I've screenshotted it in full below. "It is sad that in a country as developed as America, such third world drugs such as marijuana are allowed to exist," the story's anonymous author wrote. "Children are being addicted to marijuana. I knew this day would come, when a liberal president allowed a state to legally sell Marijuana Flintstone Vitamins to children."

"Marijuana. It is one of the most dangerous drugs on Earth," the author concludes ominously. "For every one joint of marijuana, four teenagers become burdened with pregnancy."

Shocking, no? The people at D.A.R.E. certainly thought so, enough that they reposted the entire story, titled "Edible Marijuana Candies Kill 9 in Colorado, 12 at Coachella" from topekasnews.com. The only problem is that topekasnews.com is a satire Web site, one of dozens posting fake-but-just-barely-believable stories online. The marijuana story is fake, as are the numbers it cites.

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read more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...ti-pot-satire/