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[A Trip to Magic Mountain - An Anti-Anti-Drug Rant]
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In a sense when children are introduced to the D.A.R.E. program and
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other anti-drug programs, they are being taken to a fabulous
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amusement park like Magic Mountain and being told that they aren't
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aloud to go on any of the rides...
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The big, nice, anal retentive man in the black and blue uniform
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comes into the room full of helpless, open minded little children,
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filling their little heads with thoughts of a spinning world, with
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no cares, no problems, no stress and no pain. Then they tell them
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that they aren't allowed to do all of these wonder-ful things that
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are so carefree and nice because they will hurt the child, they will
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"deflate the child's balloon" was one analogy that was forced upon
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me when I was in D.A.R.E. Kids start to believe that smoking pot
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occasionally is the same as rapeing someone or shooting heroin, that
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is what I was lead to believe anyhow... and can you imagine how I
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must have felt when I found out my dad smoked pot, HELL! I was only
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nine years old and fresh out of the D.A.R.E. program thinking
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that my dad must also be a murderer if he smoked pot!
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Once this sort of information is forced upon the child, he begins to
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make decisions not for him/herself but for the D.A.R.E. program, and
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for the nice officer who told them what to do and what not to do,
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and who to believe and who to tell if someone in your family or one
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of your friends is involved with drugs.
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Maybe the things these people tell the kids isn't wrong, but at
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least let them make their own choices instead of forcing
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stereotypes on them.
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-The New Guy
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(inspired by a fellow student)
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