Reply #56: seems like fear and mixed messages to me [View All]

[ucmike]

i never had to sit through it, but my younger brothers and sisters did. in my brothers class the cop brought in a travelling display case of drugs and paraphenalia then demonstrated how each was used. more like drug education than drug resistance. i never understood how simulating a bong hit on a real bong would stop anyone from using drugs. it seemed to me that this approach would only desensitize kids to using drugs.

they also blurred the line between drugs and alcohol. my 5th grade brother went into uncontrolled crying and irrational panic because he saw me drinking a beer. he thought that anyone who drank a beer a was hopeless alcoholic and that my life was ruined. it took several hours of explanations to get him to realize otherwise.