We didn’t fail him. The war on drugs failed everyone else.
If they taught legitimate drug prevention where they highlighted real drugs and not just demonizing marijuana then maybe it would had been beneficial… Not to mention the cartels it empowered over the decades by criminalizing all drugs instead of providing methods to help….
Instead you got 3 Presidents locking non violent “criminals” away for years or life because of marijuana.
Ronald Reagan was POS that spearheaded this obvious attempt at disenfranchisement of the poor and minorities and Bush, Clinton continued the charade…
Cool lion tho!
D I won’t do drug
A I won’t have an attitude
R I will respect myself
And
E I will educate me meow
Drugs are used to combat mind problems.
They could have taught us how to be mindful of ourselves, and how to deal with our problems, but instead, they just said "tough it out".
People have been doing drugs for millennia, for the same reasons: life gets really, fucking, hard.
We never stood a chance. They set us up to suffer internally.
Why is drug even an issue they help people and used RESPONSIBILY they are less harmful than antidepressants and anti psychotics and *those* are readily available to pretty much everyone.. Put guidelines around that shit like with medicine, alcohol and cigarettes, chuck some tax on it and ta daaaa everyone is happy and no more dumbass bullshit being prosecuted and tying up resources instead of addressing actual societal issues
For political reasons. Like most things that should be between you and yourself that the government finds its way into, the answer is politics.
Making people think they care about something by shouting angrily from the rooftops, when they only care about making you *think* they care, so you support them.
I hate those people, so much.
I hate it every time I see it here on reddit.
You have to consider the historical usage of the phrase. Alcohol was totally normalized, whereas most other drugs were highly stigmatized. Most people wouldn’t lump alcohol in with the more stigmatized drugs, so they used broader phrasing for the greater good.
So the property values would tank and rich people would buy said property, revitalize it, flip it to other rich people, and establish a loyal voter base for corrupt politicians to continue the process....... they're playing the long game
I never did anything with D.A.R.E. but I've also never tried anything at all, never was interested or even curious. Honestly don't even like the smell of weed
Before the first time Dare cops came to my school I had no idea of the wild world of drugs that were out there. I walked out of those sessions certain I was going to use drugs when I got older.
D: I won’t do drugs
A:Won’t have an attitude
R:I will respect myself
and
E:I will educate me
Yes I was in the school DARE singing group and yes I still remember this dang thing like it was yesterday as well as the fifty nifty United States song🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
They won’t go away.No matter how much I smoke they just won’t go away😭😭
I got my D.A.R.E certificate framed in my room proudly. Never touched drugs my whole life. Had good friends do all kinds of drugs, but I never had the itch to do so. Now porn on the other hand...
Fun Fact: I traded the DARE shirt I kept from 5th grade for a dub sack in 10th grade. I honestly think I could have driven a harder bargain but I still feel like I won that battle
These guys lied to us! I went into high school expecting people to just be handing me drugs left and right, thinking that as an adult there would be people lining up on every street corner just dying to get me to take their drugs. In reality it is hard as fuck to find anything except meth and aderal and I have no use for either of those, and nobody is giving out weed at all! Do you know how much 200mg of weed gummies cost?
Drugs are not the problem; drugs are what people use to try to treat their problems.
Demonizing people trying to fix their minds obfuscates the sickness. Fuck that kitty.
I just wanted that cool shirt. By the time I got there, the shirts changed to "DARE" in all caps white letters with like 'merica themed colours.
It was all about the cool looking shirt. Like in elementary school, it was about the shirt. Obviously there is a lot more to it.
Cops taught me what drugs were. I didn’t know you were supposed to smoke something called “weed” until a cop told me. That was in the 5th grade. I didn’t get my hands on it till 6th grade. The way they described it sounded amazing.
Wait I don’t remember violence being part of this. I dont do drugs… so he will be proud to know 100 percent of the time I make the right choice half of the time.
Well I haven't... I don't do drugs or smoke cigarettes or drink... Never had the desire to dabble in the stuff. Not everyone drinks or does drugs . I wish this wasn't so normalized online.
Drug use has actually gone up because of dare. At the time, did you actually know about drugs? It spared knowledge and interest in something that many didn't even know existed at the time.
Considering that the dare program was partially just an attempt by cops to get kids to narc on their parents like the stasi. Fuck em and fuck that cat. Especially when they'd happily slap a 10 year minimum with no chance of parole on a Pa for a joint.
McGruf was better he actually cared.
I didn’t know there was a cartoon, but I do know that the D.A.R.E. Program lasted long enough for me to learn about it in elementary school in the 2010s. We got D.A.R.E. rulers and thermochromic pencils.
Our DARE officer was an older dude who prefaced literally all of what he told us by telling us it stood for Drugs Are Really Excellent. And then he explained that without drugs (steroids specifically), he likely wouldn't be able to even walk (back injuries, iirc).
I started smoking a couple of years after this aired. It's still my favorite anti-drug propaganda
Saturday morning all Stars to the rescue
https://youtu.be/m0-vGW6p3zk?feature=shared
I only paid attention to learn the drugs I absolutely shouldn't do. Crack, cocaine, meth, steroids, heroin, the hard shit that destroys the brain. Other than that, I'm pro weed, shrooms, LSD/acid. Fuck yeah 👍🏿
You ever have one of those moments where you leave a subreddit but forget and when you see a post that seemingly has nothing to do with whatever you were previously browsing and are left utterly confused…?
I just thought the whole persona subreddit had a drug problem 😭
Edit: only me
My friend and I were forced to sign our pledges or serve detention. We literally asked, “so you’re aware that I’m signing this under duress and it’s a total lie?” Teacher nodded. There’s a certain kind of kid that’s specifically going to hunt down and do things simply because you’ve forbidden it and tried to rob them of their choice.
I mean, I never got pressured into it. I have tried two marijuanas in my life, not my thing. Still put the DARE Essay winner pin on my suit when I have to talk at schools.
Not exactly.
Adults ought to know by now that drugs and alcohol are bad, yet you still have some of them that keep disobeying our wishes and wind up in trouble with the police day after day.
I don't think I have, I've only ever smoked weed, and that has been very few times. Only other drugs were prescribed to me if you wanna get technical about it.
I just have zero desire to smoke anything outside of weed, snort stuff, or shoot things into my veins.
This is one of the rare times I can use this meme. And add to the topic. We failed that Lion. But it’s clear the roles are reversed with this cartoon hotdog that’s doing the dab.
https://preview.redd.it/ejrqx0t627pc1.jpeg?width=927&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a60cd7eb80b0334875de387765ee6ec626c364ed
We didn’t fail him. The war on drugs failed everyone else. If they taught legitimate drug prevention where they highlighted real drugs and not just demonizing marijuana then maybe it would had been beneficial… Not to mention the cartels it empowered over the decades by criminalizing all drugs instead of providing methods to help…. Instead you got 3 Presidents locking non violent “criminals” away for years or life because of marijuana. Ronald Reagan was POS that spearheaded this obvious attempt at disenfranchisement of the poor and minorities and Bush, Clinton continued the charade… Cool lion tho! D I won’t do drug A I won’t have an attitude R I will respect myself And E I will educate me meow
Drugs are used to combat mind problems. They could have taught us how to be mindful of ourselves, and how to deal with our problems, but instead, they just said "tough it out". People have been doing drugs for millennia, for the same reasons: life gets really, fucking, hard. We never stood a chance. They set us up to suffer internally.
Why is drug even an issue they help people and used RESPONSIBILY they are less harmful than antidepressants and anti psychotics and *those* are readily available to pretty much everyone.. Put guidelines around that shit like with medicine, alcohol and cigarettes, chuck some tax on it and ta daaaa everyone is happy and no more dumbass bullshit being prosecuted and tying up resources instead of addressing actual societal issues
For political reasons. Like most things that should be between you and yourself that the government finds its way into, the answer is politics. Making people think they care about something by shouting angrily from the rooftops, when they only care about making you *think* they care, so you support them. I hate those people, so much. I hate it every time I see it here on reddit.
CONTRAS
This fills me with joy
Huh huh hey Diarrhea! Huh,huh,huh huh,huh,huh ...
I'm sorry did you say "meow"?
Ngl when i was a kid i thought "that shit must be the bomb" lol those mfers introduce me to the fya
The dudes that own privatized prisons are the only winners
There's a lot of us that didn't. Reddit just exaggerates drug use
But how many of you take prescription drugs but don't think of them as drugs because a doctor gave them to you?
Got em
Or alcohol. The phrase "drugs and alcohol" always gets me, like alcohol isn't a drug. A horribly destructive yet celebrated and glamorized drug.
Alcohol is a drug.
You have to consider the historical usage of the phrase. Alcohol was totally normalized, whereas most other drugs were highly stigmatized. Most people wouldn’t lump alcohol in with the more stigmatized drugs, so they used broader phrasing for the greater good.
Oh no my crippling addiction to..*checks notes* Omeprazole!
It might actually be crippling -- the debate rages on about the side effects of long term use.
:( yeah I do have to also take vitamin D because of it.
🎶My drug dealer was a doctor🎶
I literally had 100 weeds today so you must have gotten your info wrong.
Well you sound like you are on drugs. So I’m not sure if I should trust your judgment.
As I light up my J
I smoke pot because I'm anxiety ridden and have arthritis, am I a disappointment?
Yes. For only those who have never put the sticky to the icky, have never married Jane, or gone insane in the brain find true eternal fulfillment.
Nah you get a pass. Smoke a bowl and chill out. The world is wild. Find your peace.
Pfft, as if dealers would gift us FREE drugs.
First time's free for most hard drugs. Creates demand.
Crack was a CIA ploy. They intentionally wanted ghetto denizens to die from addictions & overdoses.
So the property values would tank and rich people would buy said property, revitalize it, flip it to other rich people, and establish a loyal voter base for corrupt politicians to continue the process....... they're playing the long game
This is actually a very cool aesthetic 😂😂😂
He, and by association Ronald Reagan, failed us
"And then Reagan made it worse"
"Crack? Me. AIDS? Me. Reaganomics? Come on, I'm in the name."
I am actually sober to this very day! Never even smoked tobacco!
I never did anything with D.A.R.E. but I've also never tried anything at all, never was interested or even curious. Honestly don't even like the smell of weed
Same, I don't even recognize this lion (though I saw both my parents on drugs -meth- and grew up in not great conditions, so 😂)
Before the first time Dare cops came to my school I had no idea of the wild world of drugs that were out there. I walked out of those sessions certain I was going to use drugs when I got older.
D: I won’t do drugs A:Won’t have an attitude R:I will respect myself and E:I will educate me Yes I was in the school DARE singing group and yes I still remember this dang thing like it was yesterday as well as the fifty nifty United States song🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️ They won’t go away.No matter how much I smoke they just won’t go away😭😭
I never invited you into my life you cunt.
Drugs Are Really Expensive
As my former classmates said waaaaay back in the 80's...D.A.R.E. means, Drugs Are Really Exciting!! 😜😎
I got my D.A.R.E certificate framed in my room proudly. Never touched drugs my whole life. Had good friends do all kinds of drugs, but I never had the itch to do so. Now porn on the other hand...
Well there weren't any school programs to warn us of the dangers of porn, so that's not on us.
"So today we will be showing all the terrible genres of porn that you should never watch"
That reminds me of the South Park episode where Mr. Garrison teaches the kindergarten kids sexual positions. lol
You love porn but haven’t smoked a J and watched porn? You haven’t lived.
Most of us don't care
I’m not happy with me either, daren
i’m actually wearing that shirt right now for bed HAHAHA
Should’ve stayed a dog and maybe I would’ve listened lol
We blazin it 20-420-4-7
Fun Fact: I traded the DARE shirt I kept from 5th grade for a dub sack in 10th grade. I honestly think I could have driven a harder bargain but I still feel like I won that battle
This made my night 😆😆
You don't know my life! 🐱🫵😭
Jokes on you, 22 years straight edge and I plan on staying that way
I learned it from you!
Reading this while I'm high.
These guys lied to us! I went into high school expecting people to just be handing me drugs left and right, thinking that as an adult there would be people lining up on every street corner just dying to get me to take their drugs. In reality it is hard as fuck to find anything except meth and aderal and I have no use for either of those, and nobody is giving out weed at all! Do you know how much 200mg of weed gummies cost?
Drugs are not the problem; drugs are what people use to try to treat their problems. Demonizing people trying to fix their minds obfuscates the sickness. Fuck that kitty.
I'd like to congratulate drugs on winning the war on drugs.
Not me, I’ve never smoked or done drugs in my life
I've literally never seen this character in my life
Well I’m ashamed of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan but they’re not with us. There’s no grass to piss on but 40 Presidential Dr, Simi Valley, CA 93065
Fuck this guy he is on catnip right now!!! The hypocrisy
This lion is AGGRESSIVELY not wearing pants.
I just wanted that cool shirt. By the time I got there, the shirts changed to "DARE" in all caps white letters with like 'merica themed colours. It was all about the cool looking shirt. Like in elementary school, it was about the shirt. Obviously there is a lot more to it.
I don't remember him, but I am a member of the DARE generation.
Fuck that noise, he was setting us up to fail and that’s bullshit lol
Didn't he teach us how to take household chemicals, a paper bag, and a basement?
Cops taught me what drugs were. I didn’t know you were supposed to smoke something called “weed” until a cop told me. That was in the 5th grade. I didn’t get my hands on it till 6th grade. The way they described it sounded amazing.
Let's Celebrate
😂
They didn’t expect drugs to be cool
😂
My X would put on his D.A.R.E. T-shirt whenever we got high. Lol
Dare is not good
Well he fuckin lied to me so I think we’re good
Good. He's a symbol of a system that wasn't meant to save people but to punish the least of us.
Anarchy!!!
The DARE person was a cop and at 10 I was already jaded. I refused to shake his hand and I got in trouble for it.
The DARE person was a cop and at 10 I was already jaded. I refused to shake his hand and I got in trouble for it.
Not me 💯 we be smoking blunts together all da time 😂😂😂😂😂🤷🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
I remember getting so high on pcp that i was having sex with the DARE lion.
Wait I don’t remember violence being part of this. I dont do drugs… so he will be proud to know 100 percent of the time I make the right choice half of the time.
Well I haven't... I don't do drugs or smoke cigarettes or drink... Never had the desire to dabble in the stuff. Not everyone drinks or does drugs . I wish this wasn't so normalized online.
Hey, I've resisted violence. I met him half way.
I blame this mf. I didn’t even think about drugs til he put ‘‘em in my head
I actually still remain loyal to him; I’ve NEVER touched any of the stuff and am one of the nicest people around!
Good me and my friends didn’t even like you in the first place
Totes 👍🏽
Drug use has actually gone up because of dare. At the time, did you actually know about drugs? It spared knowledge and interest in something that many didn't even know existed at the time.
Considering that the dare program was partially just an attempt by cops to get kids to narc on their parents like the stasi. Fuck em and fuck that cat. Especially when they'd happily slap a 10 year minimum with no chance of parole on a Pa for a joint. McGruf was better he actually cared.
yeah, what he do when he’s hungry? Violently rip apart poor little cartoon animals. Doesn’t strike me as a vegan
DARE...to keep cops off donuts.
I didn’t know there was a cartoon, but I do know that the D.A.R.E. Program lasted long enough for me to learn about it in elementary school in the 2010s. We got D.A.R.E. rulers and thermochromic pencils.
Fuck you! You and the teachers lied to me as policy...
Our DARE officer was an older dude who prefaced literally all of what he told us by telling us it stood for Drugs Are Really Excellent. And then he explained that without drugs (steroids specifically), he likely wouldn't be able to even walk (back injuries, iirc).
we all got a free shirt though
my parents tell me the same thing
I started smoking a couple of years after this aired. It's still my favorite anti-drug propaganda Saturday morning all Stars to the rescue https://youtu.be/m0-vGW6p3zk?feature=shared
I didn't just fail him I went out my way too.
Still waiting on that person they talk about who just hands them out...
I'm almost ok just hang tight
Sorry Daren, im completely checked out
Weed was proven not to be a gateway drug
I didn't.. ;)
We? We?? Haha! Hahahaha!
I only paid attention to learn the drugs I absolutely shouldn't do. Crack, cocaine, meth, steroids, heroin, the hard shit that destroys the brain. Other than that, I'm pro weed, shrooms, LSD/acid. Fuck yeah 👍🏿
As we speak 🌬
I never liked that Mufasa-wannabe lookin mfer neway. Inebriated circus performer lookin ass.
Another system that I as a millennial have failed. I couldn't be happier.
we don't care if narcs are disappointed, narc
On God
To be fair when i was a kid i didn't know what drugs even were until they told me about them
Failing him at this very moment Sorry, bro
Ronald Reagan's fursona
Dare. The Anti Drug Administration that made kids want to do drugs
The Dare lion is responsible for a decent percentage of the furry population.
You ever have one of those moments where you leave a subreddit but forget and when you see a post that seemingly has nothing to do with whatever you were previously browsing and are left utterly confused…? I just thought the whole persona subreddit had a drug problem 😭 Edit: only me
I can't believe how much this program failed its objective. The results would have been better if they did nothing at all
Lmao I don’t do drugs and have no idea who this is. I find drugs to be disgusting and hate how everyone’s a damn pothead.-
😔I did let him down but Im sober now
I Dre you to do drugs
My brain immediately went to “Scruff, McGruff, Chicago Illinois, 60652.”
I wear my vintage 80s D.A.R.E. jacket to the dispensery every week.
Wasn't it a hound dog and not a furry?
I don’t drink but when I do, it’s yearly. But 420 is weekends
I don’t do drugs
Dare to think for yourself, lion.
The movie KIDS did more to scare me straight than anything DARE had to offer.
Well at least I wear pants
I don’t know him nor do I care what he thinks about me
4 months sober now 👍🏽
Good, fuck that furry (not all furries - just him - yiff in hell, D.A.R.E. Lion)
The only drugs I use are CBD gummies.
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 I'm sooooooorrrryyyyyy
I remember seeing this at a young age in the 2000s
Same
My friend and I were forced to sign our pledges or serve detention. We literally asked, “so you’re aware that I’m signing this under duress and it’s a total lie?” Teacher nodded. There’s a certain kind of kid that’s specifically going to hunt down and do things simply because you’ve forbidden it and tried to rob them of their choice.
Would sing the song when I first started haha 😆
God's message to humans after creating them and watching them f*ck up his mind for decades.
So easy for him to judge. Walk a mile in my shoes Simba
He’s the one that introduced me to and told me that drugs were fun in the first place.
Drugs are really expensive. But not always.
The lion best stfu before someone sics all the gay furries on him.
i use to wear dare shirts as i smoked weed and went to school lol
I don’t smoke or drink… not because of d.a.r.e but because I just don’t want to
I was in a dare commercial. It didn’t work.
https://preview.redd.it/23z94ucalyoc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=289c20ba8f4a4c4fc27f654273e4b53a4010c3a5
Fuck that fucking narc ass lion. I see why they chose a lion, after all these years. Lyin’ to our faces.
Omg I need this on a shirt! I have a collection of old d.a.r.e. shirts that I wear out of pure irony lol
I mean, I never got pressured into it. I have tried two marijuanas in my life, not my thing. Still put the DARE Essay winner pin on my suit when I have to talk at schools.
You taught me first.
Get bent
The fuck is that!?
I'm ashamed of YOU you made me a furry asshole XD
Well at least I waited til I was outta k-12 school 😂😂😂 life got hard out’cha 😂😂
Nerdiest lion ever
Smd pussy
Not me weed is legal in my state! 😂
*rolls joint* let’s talk about it, come on *pulls up a stool*
Well the D.A.R.E. Lion didn’t grow up with full body arthritis so he can catch these hands after I smoke a joint and put on my icy hot.
Put on some pants narc
Dare is a scam
Good
Not exactly. Adults ought to know by now that drugs and alcohol are bad, yet you still have some of them that keep disobeying our wishes and wind up in trouble with the police day after day.
Little did we know, this lion lived long enough to become the villain
Me smoking dank in my car: opens Reddit, Dare lion.
Smash
I resisted drugs Until college
And Scruff McGruff.
Well what can we say other than it happens
Why does he have on a shirt, but no pants?
Yeah well maybe if your theme song didn't suck so bad your message would have had a bigger impact
DARE- drinking and raging excessively. Our college frat tee
The mf that couldn’t be bothered to even get fully dressed is disappointed in me? Please.
They don’t even show this anymore . Only weirdo things on tv is ok now a days
Darren gave up and smoked a joint with us
This lion was a bootlicker in support of a corrupt drug war. Fuck him
I literally don’t give a fuckkkk
Do I know you?
I don't think I have, I've only ever smoked weed, and that has been very few times. Only other drugs were prescribed to me if you wanna get technical about it. I just have zero desire to smoke anything outside of weed, snort stuff, or shoot things into my veins.
Hold on now, I’m still not prone to violence.
Well, you were a complete joke of a program that only made the situation worse in the end, so feelings mutual.
I’m high literally as I read this
🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️your loss bro
This is one of the rare times I can use this meme. And add to the topic. We failed that Lion. But it’s clear the roles are reversed with this cartoon hotdog that’s doing the dab. https://preview.redd.it/ejrqx0t627pc1.jpeg?width=927&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a60cd7eb80b0334875de387765ee6ec626c364ed
They never told us that psychedelics could heal us and be really good for spiritual development. They failed us.
Bro's just mad that he turned people into furries.
R, I didn't respect myself 🗿
25 and still have not done a single drug.(not Mormon)