How many of you went to a school that participated in the D.A.R.E. program? According to a report by the General Accounting Office, the "non-partisan investigative arm of the U.S. Congress", the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program commonly known as D.A.R.E is ineffective and "The six long-term evaluations of the D.A.R.E. elementary school curriculum that we reviewed found no significant differences in illicit drug use between students who received D.A.R.E. in the fifth or sixth grade (the intervention group) and students who did not (the control group)." This is just one example of the millions of dollars wasted on the government's war on drugs. In my opinion, and those of many others, the entire "drug war" is a huge waste of money and valuable human resources. And where marijuana is concerned, there has been no substantial evidence that its prohibition has had any conclusive effect at all. The current drug policy on marijuana is not only ineffective but harmful to not only......
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