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I honestly think if I could give my edibles to my high school health teachers and show them Taskmaster or Would I Lie To You I'd change at least one of their lives forever.
hey kids, remember, drugs are very dangerous, unless you take some basic commonsense precautions. mr. puppetman is here to explain knowing your source, test strips, Narcan... yes I'm from real DARE. how else would I have a puppet
Wait did DARE have puppets? (I'm not from the US so everything I know about DARE is secondhand and also bonkers)
oh yes, DARE has puppets. This is Daren the DARE lion and he visited once a week when I was in 5th grade (age 10-ish) to tell us not to give in to Peer Pressure because Drugs Aren't Cool:
I can't explain how but he looks like a born-again Christian lion. Something about his combed mane.
I would ask if it worked but from what I know the answer is "no, to a hilarious degree"
it worked great, none of the 10-year-olds in my class used drugs
...for the next few years
there were many strange things about the program but the weirdest and most profoundly American is that at no point did it acknowledge that drugs feel good. we were supposed to believe that social pressure was the only reason people use drugs. absolutely no advice for the scenario of wanting to try it.
(this was also the approach they took in sex ed, with similar efficacy)
Ah, Americans and puritan negation of the flesh, name a more iconic duo
