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RillAkBea posted:Unfortunately for my 90s upbringing by scared middle class parents, one of the kids in my primary school did actually find some discarded drugs on the side of the road and tried some thinking they were candy. He got the full front page large font treatment in the local newspaper if I remember correctly. I bet he just wanted to try drugs and said he thought they were candy under interrogation, just like 7th Grade Ok Comboomer circa 2002 got the stack of printed out JPEGs of kink.com hidden in his bedside table “from a kid in school who played a prank on me, I didn’t know what they were, Mom, I swear. He said it was Dilbert comics” and definitely not by clandestinely googling for pics of ladies getting tied up and spanked and printing them out on the family computer over several months, no sir. Like, even the club drugs that are the most candylike aren’t really at all like candy. They’re very obviously pharmaceuticals. And obviously no kid is looking at a key bump in a baggie and going “oh snap, pixie stix!” twelve year old sees doobie “is this a snickers bar?”
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Possibly, though this was the UK in the middle of the 90s rave era where drugs that look like candy were a part of the aesthetic.
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RillAkBea posted:Possibly, though this was the UK in the middle of the 90s rave era where drugs that look like candy were a part of the aesthetic. fair enough, but if HS me had ever been caught under the influence of anything I’d have probably lied through my teeth about my naïveté
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RillAkBea posted:Possibly, though this was the UK in the middle of the 90s rave era where drugs that look like candy were a part of the aesthetic. Like that episode of Grange Hill where the kid thought LSD was strawberry flavoured and took a Swan dive off the roof.
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May 9, 2022 10:00
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Disco Pope posted:Like that episode of Grange Hill where the kid thought LSD was strawberry flavoured and took a Swan dive off the roof. I smoked weed a couple times and now I’m a satanist on death row for murder, true story
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May 9, 2022 10:05
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Ok Comboomer posted:I smoked weed a couple times and now I’m a satanist on death row for murder, true story I stayed away from smoking heroin because I didn't want to sell my PS1: https://youtu.be/un9MII-NbyM
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May 9, 2022 10:09
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Guys lemme tell ya about cartoon acid.
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May 9, 2022 11:48
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The loving DARE officer told a classroom of 10 year olds that "Acid" would let you talk to Bugs Bunny in your bedroom and let me tell you that was not the dissuasive pitch he thought it was
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May 9, 2022 11:52
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mind the walrus posted:The loving DARE officer told a classroom of 10 year olds that "Acid" would let you talk to Bugs Bunny in your bedroom and let me tell you that was not the dissuasive pitch he thought it was not just Bugs my friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hz1UaEVyoo
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May 9, 2022 12:07
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RillAkBea posted:Possibly, though this was the UK in the middle of the 90s rave era where drugs that look like candy were a part of the aesthetic. Around this time my friend's dad found a tablet on his lawn and told us he'd sent it to the police for analysis and they had confirmed it was "drugs". He grilled us about it for ages and was sure it had been given to us by another friend he didn't like. It was probably a dropped paracetamol.
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May 9, 2022 12:23
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mind the walrus posted:The loving DARE officer told a classroom of 10 year olds that "Acid" would let you talk to Bugs Bunny in your bedroom and let me tell you that was not the dissuasive pitch he thought it was our UK equivalent was police and he came in with a suitcase of drugs and went "do any of you recognise any of these?" to blank faces, and then proceeded to very carefully explain the difference between regular weed and skunk weed.
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May 9, 2022 12:59
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Not a drugs thing, but when I was about 7 or 8, we had a deranged squaddie come in and tell us that in a war, our classroom would be turned into a communications centre and if we saw it, she'd have to kill us. I also remember a cowboy coming in to show us snakes, so I might have been delirious as a kid. Also one time a children's author with an eye patch and his wife made us pretend to be trees.
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May 9, 2022 14:33
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That Rachel Lee Cook PSA really made we want to do heroin.
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May 9, 2022 14:59
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Yeah why did they get a super hot chick to destroy a kitchen. It was hot.
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May 9, 2022 19:48
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I like that she did a follow up ad later dissing the War on Drugs
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Mu Zeta posted:Yeah why did they get a super hot chick to destroy a kitchen. It was hot. "Any questions?" "...um, yeah, could you do that again?"
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May 9, 2022 20:49
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cake is a made up drug and has many disguises... https://twitter.com/90sdecade/status/1120016273428111361?s=20&t=QLUz2WBrhX1DZ7Yi_Y2jIw
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There were definetly shootings at the big mall in my hometown in Alaska, it was a real problem.
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ultrafilter posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAHoxaphbEs Wow, somehow I missed that she updated that PSA. Super cool of her to do that. If anything it just shows how the public perception on the War on Drugs has changed Ambitious Spider posted:not just Bugs my friend: Out of everything in this video it was the FBI Warning at the beginning that got me
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learnincurve posted:our UK equivalent was police and he came in with a suitcase of drugs and went "do any of you recognise any of these?" to blank faces, and then proceeded to very carefully explain the difference between regular weed and skunk weed. didn't someone here have a story about how a cop handed around 2 joints to a classroom so everyone knew what they looked like, and made it very clear that if he didn't get them back there'd be hell to pay. When he got them back there were 3.
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minato posted:didn't someone here have a story about how a cop handed around 2 joints to a classroom so everyone knew what they looked like, and made it very clear that if he didn't get them back there'd be hell to pay. When he got them back there were 3. This sounds like a ploy the D.A.R.E. cop would pull at every school just to make parents and the school go in an anti-drug panic.
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Super Dan posted:There are definitely people who day trade cryptocurrencies. This is probably the safest way. RillAkBea posted:Unfortunately for my 90s upbringing by scared middle class parents, one of the kids in my primary school did actually find some discarded drugs on the side of the road and tried some thinking they were candy. He got the full front page large font treatment in the local newspaper if I remember correctly. This was always how it was framed but the kid who i knew who went to the hospital due to ingesting a drug, found in his home. It turned out to be one of his mom Mothers Little Helpers but it kinda spoiled the "look out for drugs in the wild, make sure you tell your parents if someone offers you drugs!" when its your parents. Similar story is a friend of mines wife is a cop and everyone has to do the anti Drug thing in school, and one kid said coke looked like the energy powder his dad takes before going to work. Like with most things people are scared of, its not from strangers, but outside the home. RillAkBea posted:Possibly, though this was the UK in the middle of the 90s rave era where drugs that look like candy were a part of the aesthetic. If your children are listening to Utah Saints and Shamen on repeat, check their rooms for party drugs. Ok Comboomer posted:I smoked weed a couple times and now I’m a satanist on death row for murder, true story You could have been on one of the zillions of talk shows in the 90s! They loved to have on Satanists, or at least people who claimed to be satanists, and they were always "I did drugs and listened to heavy metal and Satan came to me and now I eat babies in the name of my Dark Lord!" and poo poo like that. No wonder boomers are so paranoid and just accepting of any BS claim, their brains rotted watching this all day when we were at school.
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minato posted:didn't someone here have a story about how a cop handed around 2 joints to a classroom so everyone knew what they looked like, and made it very clear that if he didn't get them back there'd be hell to pay. When he got them back there were 3. All the stories I heard were the reverse. Two joints go out and zero or one come back.
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minato posted:didn't someone here have a story about how a cop handed around 2 joints to a classroom so everyone knew what they looked like, and made it very clear that if he didn't get them back there'd be hell to pay. When he got them back there were 3. i heard the joints were labelled 1, 2 and 4
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In my D.A.R.E. class the local cop passed around confiscated bowls instead of joints. IIRC we did in fact end up having to pass them to the left as they circulated.
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twistedmentat posted:This is probably the safest way. https://youtu.be/KF5tYjDIjIs I’m not having any luck finding the much more recent VCR Party episode where they actually met + spoke to Dark Lord Blood in the contemporary day. Dude’s still cool AF
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Meaty Ore posted:In my D.A.R.E. class the local cop passed around confiscated bowls instead of joints. IIRC we did in fact end up having to pass them to the left as they circulated. Please tell me at least one kid said "puff puff" before passing
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twistedmentat posted:This is probably the safest way. GJ snitching on your hard working dad kid.
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To be fair, there are a lot of powdered drinks and water additives out there that could fit that bill Wouldn’t shock me if the kid was really talking about something like powdered caffeine sports drink or that “Emergen-C” garbage
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dare was done in 5th grade in my school and i really hope that ten year olds aren't smoking weed 
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if you didn't know who in your fifth grade class had weed you just weren't one of the cool kids sorry
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Killingyouguy! posted:if you didn't know who in your fifth grade class had weed you just weren't one of the cool kids sorry I know I wasn't and still am not
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RillAkBea posted:Unfortunately for my 90s upbringing by scared middle class parents, one of the kids in my primary school did actually find some discarded drugs on the side of the road and tried some thinking they were candy. He got the full front page large font treatment in the local newspaper if I remember correctly. even if this were true, what kind of nutjob kid eats candy they find on the side of the road?
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amaguri posted:even if this were true, what kind of nutjob kid eats candy they find on the side of the road? 90s kids, dude. I got a Proustian memory of the mega ADHD kid with the rat tail haircut in my kindergarten class licking every single window on the school bus one time
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Ok Comboomer posted:To be fair, there are a lot of powdered drinks and water additives out there that could fit that bill Honestly it sounds to me like the apocryphal cop equivalent of "my sister is a nurse and delivered twins named lemonjello and orangejello". What I'm getting at is that it was probably powdered jello mix.
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Ok Comboomer posted:To be fair, there are a lot of powdered drinks and water additives out there that could fit that bill That is possible, but I did have a friend in elementary school who's dad was the current morning zoo DJ on the classic rock station in the early 80s and all the kids would hang out at their place because he had atari and 2 pinball games and pingpong and would play Motley Crue around us. he would also vanish for 10 minutes and come back with way more energy. Ok Comboomer posted:https://youtu.be/KF5tYjDIjIs Yea that poo poo was all over the place. The smart ones rented themselves out to police departments as experts on Satanism and got paid big bucks making bullshit claims for cops to arrest the burnout headbanger kids for murders when it was the husband. This classic video for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW32CYJrOMI
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The cop who did DARE for my school told us the most common question he got was how much all the drugs in the box were worth, which is believable.
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amaguri posted:even if this were true, what kind of nutjob kid eats candy they find on the side of the road? A low income kid that's always hungry? I grew up in one of London's commuter towns so we had a weird mix of turbo middle class and post thatcher poverty line working class. There was another kid in my class who literally did just eat anything he found on the playground. He'd "blow off the germs" and go to town which even at 5-6 years old I was horrified at. (Unfortunately, another very 90s thing is not recognizing or doing anything about child abuse  )
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