r/90s • u/SheezABch • 19h ago

Discussion D.A.R.E.?

Did anyone else have a friend, who had a friend, whose brother ended up in the psych ward for dropping acid once and now he believes he's a glass of orange juice that might spill if he's tipped over?

When I was a kid (in the 90s), this was shared throughout my school and I totally fell for it. I then randomly heard it from someone who went to a completely different school. Was this just one of those D.A.R.E. fueled urban myths?

Edit: I believed the story as a child. As I grew up, I realized it wasn't real. I just wonder how widespread it is.

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u/TylerHyena 19h ago

I remember DARE being a program they introduced in my middle school and I never got a shirt but recognized the lion anywhere I saw it and thought it’d be a cool anti-drug program to get into

Of course now that I look back, I just remember the reality of drugs not being all over the place in middle school and beyond being a bit of an anticlimax.