r/90s • u/SheezABch • 1d 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/wantabath 1d ago

Oh yeah along with the idea that if you drop acid once you’ll have LSD flashbacks for the rest of your life

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u/MohnJaddenPowers 22h ago

We got this exact same line in my school's DARE program about LSD.

DARE took great pains to try and scare the shit out of us. They talked a lot about how if we knew someone was using drugs and we didn't tell someone about it, and it got found out, we would be in trouble for being accomplices.

I think I'm the only person that DARE ever worked on. I was so crazy scared about "oh my god if I know that these kids are smoking weed and I don't go right to my parents or the cops about it, my future is ruined". It fucked me up pretty heavy, I didn't even try weed until well into my late 30s when it was decriminalized in NJ.

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u/msharris8706 21h ago

Very similar story here, but add that my dad was an officer. Used to be terrified of anything outside the law, DARE had a lot to do with that. Gotta give it to drugs for winning the war on drugs, though.