That the real drug-awareness horror stories would be WAYY more effective in teaching sixth-graders the dangers of recreational drugs. D.A.R.E. should tell the stories of the 4 friends who tripped on shrooms in the forest and thought they found a gnome in the woods. They played with that "gnome" for hours. It was asking for food and water, but seemed happy to be with them. They put the gnome in the car and drove to the gas station. When they sobered up, they realized that they had a downs-syndrome child in the back seat of their car.
Or the story about the friends who took acid and thought they found an alien. They put it in their closet and when they sobered they realized it was a black child with ponytails.
Or the man who was slipped acid in his burrito by an aquaintance before seeing The Matrix. He came out of the movie theater and thought that his life had become The Matrix. He started to fight off the innocent movie-goers around him. He tripped for 4 days and when his dad came home from riding his motorcycle, this man believed his dad was Darth Vader, and his trip switched from The Matrix to Star Wars in a split second. He beat the shit out of his father, so they called the police. He tripped for 8 days, until he came to in the hospital. Now, whenever he is in a stressful situation, he has a flashback that sends him into Matrix mode again.
Or the sweet young man on the Real World: Denver, who took a lot of acid as a teen. Now, whenever someone he knows passes away, this man sees crows all around him. The Real World filmed one of his flashbacks, where he was looking all around the kitchen at imaginary crows. He called his mother to make sure his suspicions were false, and found that his grandmother had passed that same morning.
No-fuckin'-thanks, hallucinogens.
