D.A.R.E., the program started in the 1980s that taught kids to avoid drugs, has gotten a lot of things wrong about drugs. That incudes the idea that acid flashbacks will haunt you for the rest of your life. But decades later, perhaps D.A.R.E.'s most glaring failure have been its criticism of marijuana, which have mostly been debunked. At the time, President Ronald Reagan may have thought he was helping the health of the country when he and his wife Nancy championed the program, and notwithstanding what some critics have called more nefarious motives, the program was predominately considered a failure and spread a lot of misinformation.
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