{"id":5620,"date":"2016-02-29T06:20:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T06:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/?p=47339"},"modified":"2016-02-29T06:20:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T06:20:27","slug":"d-a-r-e-leaves-ents-dazed-and-confused-over-marijuana-missing-as-gateway-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/d-a-r-e-leaves-ents-dazed-and-confused-over-marijuana-missing-as-gateway-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"D.A.R.E. Leaves Ents Dazed and Confused Over Marijuana Missing As Gateway Drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/d-a-r-e-leaves-ents-dazed-and-confused-over-marijuana-missing-as-gateway-drug\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Lighting up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/trees\/comments\/47h6kp\/marijuana_no_longer_a_gateway_drug_on_dares\/#Marijuana%20No%20Longer%20a%20%22Gateway%20Drug%22%20%20\">subreddit thread<\/a> yesterday, a sharp-eyed ent (<em>a marijuana enthusiast<\/em>) made a seemingly significant discovery when observing that D.A.R.E., a Reagan-era anti-drug propagandist group, had mysteriously lost their reference to marijuana as a degenerate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dare.org\/keeping-kids-drug-free\/#Keeping%20Kids%20Drug%20Free\">gateway drug<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Gateway philosophy surmises that individuals begin addictive habits with socially acceptable substances \u2013 think tobacco and alcohol \u2013 then making the transition to more mind-altering drugs like LSD or heroin.<\/p>\n<p>Pleased yet confused by the website\u2019s omission, the more observant supporters of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program (a.k.a. D.A.R.E.) have been duped before by the low-tech reality of these antidrug crusaders. Late last summer, D.A.R.E. made a serious online faux pas by telling the truth. Accidentally publishing an inadvertent op-ed piece that pointed out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/blog\/news\/2015\/07\/stoner-move-d-a-r-e-mistakenly-announces-support-for-marijuana-legalization\/#Stoner%20Move:%20D.A.R.E.%20Mistakenly%20Announces%20Support%20for%20Marijuana%20Legalization\">the dangers of keeping marijuana illegal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In that truthful Freudian slip of a post, D.A.R.E. published a piece by an ex-deputy sheriff turned legalization Crusader, which set the Internet ablaze when he claimed, \u201c<em>I know from enforcing senseless marijuana laws that children only are being put in more danger when marijuana is kept illegal<\/em>.\u201d After leaving the post up for 72 hours \u2013 it was abruptly yanked from their website with no explanation given.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not exactly a tech savvy company<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Similar to their previous mistake of unintended truth telling, D.A.R.E. simply never got around to defining marijuana as a gateway drug on their website. Instead, D.A.R.E. only identifies marijuana once on their \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dare.org\/keeping-kids-drug-free\/#Keeping%20Kids%20Drug%20Free%20\"><em>Keeping Kids Drug-Free<\/em><\/a>\u201d page, at the end of a short paragraph describing the slippery slope of tobacco use\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cTobacco use is associated with alcohol and illicit drug use and is generally the first drug used by young people who enter a sequence of drug use that can include tobacco, alcohol, <strong><em>marijuana<\/em><\/strong>, and harder drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Regardless of whether or not D.A.R.E. has ever identified marijuana as a gateway drug on their propaganda filled site, most see it for what it is\u2026 scare tactics. Despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drugabuse.gov\/publications\/marijuana\/marijuana-gateway-drug#%20NIH:%20Is%20marijuana%20a%20gateway%20drug?\">several studies<\/a> dispelling the antiquated notion that marijuana is a gateway drug \u2013 this Cold War relic of a bygone philosophy continues to distribute distorted \u201cfacts\u201d based on erroneous\u00a0assertions.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo Courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/trees\" target=\"_blank\">\/r\/tress<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lighting up a subreddit thread yesterday, a sharp-eyed ent (a marijuana enthusiast) made a seemingly significant discovery when observing that D.A.R.E., a Reagan-era anti-drug propagandist group, had mysteriously lost their reference to marijuana as a degenerate gateway drug. 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