I can't believe what I just read.

Our child is also 15, and since we've been HONEST with kidd-O about the difference between "plants" "prescriptions" and "drugs", has enough of a brain to see through the DARE bullshit.

Also: being that I do have some experience with teenagers, it does seem that there was more to that story that Mommy toking in front of the kid. The brat was probably pissed off at something entirely different, such as a curfew or chores, and decided to "get back" at her Mom in a way that she may have thought to be benign. I doubt the kid even knew how serious the legal and social ramifications were by her tattling.

The DARE program and most drug education programs in the schools are simply irresponsible. They lump weed in with crack and just call it all "drugs". Kids usually try weed first, if they experiment with anything at all, and when they figure out that you don't go crazy, you don't become violent, you don't become a murderous thieving fiend, well, they just assume that the teachers are either stupid or lying.
That leads them to try other things that truly are dangerous and they think they've got all the answers.

DARE is a ridiculous and terrifying concept.
It hurts more than it helps; to include the children, their parents, and the over crowded jails that our tax dollars are being spent upon.
mjmomma Reviewed by mjmomma on . girl rats out Mom ... Nebraska Girl Turns in Mother for Allegedly Smoking Pot Friday, February 20, 2009 WAVERLY, Neb. â?? A 15-year-old Waverly girl has turned in her mom for allegedly smoking marijuana in front of her. The 32-year-old woman was cited on suspicion of child abuse and marijuana possession. The daughter called the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office, and authorities executed a search warrant of her mother's home on Wednesday. Rating: 5