It's crazy how expensive it is too. At my HS, as an ASB rep got contacted by DARE reps once and they where oh its only $15k per classroom. It all made sense when I started to learn its always been a money grubbing grift. It never had a good reason to exist other then excuse to charge alot for busybwork.

This is sadly the typical progression. People come to the conclusion that drugs aren't really that big of a deal but then do too much of them. It's sort of like people turning 21 and getting hammered. Better to help people do things safely and provide alternatives or treatment than to proclaim abstinence.

Our division does DARE with 4th graders still. Officers come in and spew that shit for a few weeks and kids get a bunch of swag and cupcakes for signing a pledge. I’m not a fan of any of it, but it’s above my pay grade.

"For over three decades, our DARE officers have driven attention-grabbing and one-of-a-kind vehicles that never fail to turn heads and excite students,” the department said on Facebook.

How many of those excited students were stopped from using drugs by these attention-grabbing one-of-a-kind vehicles? An exact number isn't necessary, I'll accept an educated approximation.

Also-

And she said the department needed a new D.A.R.E. vehicle anyway.

I may be showing my age here, but back when I was a kid, Officer Friendly used to come to my school and tell us how drugs did not make you cool in his regular old patrol car.

…or $44 billion for Twitter…

For everyone's reference, D.A.R.E (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was not only ineffective, they were anti-effective. Their presence and total demonization of weed not only didn't reduce drug usage rates, they frequently increased the rates.

They've been known to be ineffective since at least 2004: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1448384/

DARE is a wild program. They finally admitted defeat to drugs and have switched to suicide prevention. The kids that do petitions for them, at least around me, are militant. I had one follow me into a restaurant to keep pestering me. Didn't stop until I told the children to kindly fuck off already

D.A.R.E. taught me that random people will force me to take drugs. Still waiting on that one. We did learn you can get high from sniffing glue though.

It's a real shame; Irvine has lots of great food, and it's another large east-Asian population center within the LA-OC metro area, but it's also so staunchly Republican that I can't stand to watch local news down there.

That's nothing against the university, though. I have family who got their degrees there, and I even took summer classes on campus once. I dig the school and it was my fallback when I applied for colleges (back when it was possible to have a fallback).

Really hard to park

My son has an old school D.A.R.E shirt he got from Goodwill. He wears it sometimes to go play hardcore shows.

I'm still trying to find a D.A.R.E. beer koozie.

I had a black DARE shirt growing up. It disappeared or got given away at some point and I didn’t care.

Now, the purple Jump Rope For Heart shirt I had was my absolute favorite. I wore that until it evaporated.

... yea, that would probably work.

The cybertruck is 100% the result of misuse of drugs, and if presented in that fashion, might at least help in some way with making it clear how important it can be to use drugs responsibly.

Say no to drugs or you will approve of shit like this "car"

All
Cybertrucks
Are
Bad

Oh don’t worry, that’s dare’s normal effect

Because this viewpoint exists I died to crime.

Thanks a lot

Unless you need to go through sand to get to the drugs, or it's raining.

Even when I was a kid in the 90s, it was largely known then it was a massive failure.

By highschool, most of the kids doing drugs renamed it Drugs Are Really Expensive. Probably didn't help that the police officer assigned to the high school was known amongst the students to be selling drugs to the students.

Odds are that single helicopter landing cost more than this.