The problem I see with DARE is that these officers never even tried drugs so they have no idea what they are talking about. We need actual people whose lives were ruined by drugs to come to schools and share their experiences. The funding could also go to get these people back on track as this can be their full time job.
If I was in school and some officer came and told us: ‘do not vape, its uncool’, I would think the opposite. If it was a person that needs a device to talk and looks absolutely fucked up because of lung/throat cancer, it would scare the shit out of my young mind so that I will be less prone to try it.
We had some prsioners come in and talk to us in highschool. One had been a meth cook and had a hole in hir heart from cooking. Its wasnt part of dare though.
that never worked. we had many ex-addicts come to speak to us at my school from middle school to high school and no one cared or paid attention. what they need to do is talk about what drugs actually do to you and not the "makes you lazy" bs. they need to show studies and bring in neurologists, for example drinking lets say, when it came to alcohol you just hear how it messes up your liver and addiction to it can ruin your family, but bringing up how it destroys grey brain matter is a lot more substance. i became sober from all intoxicants when I started reading the effects of drugs.
90's kid here. Dare introduced my generation to drugs. The showed us what weed is in 5th grade, and we were smoking it in 6th grade. I remember once when they were describing the negative effects of weed. One of the negative effects was "a feeling of euphoria". We looked that word up in the dictionary that day and got pretty curious.
I remember we watched a video in DARE that had a 90s graphic of bent spoons dancing in 5th grade. I asked the officer what those spoons were. Dude gave a detailed play by play in how to shoot up heroin. It always stayed with me because of how insane it was to me. It was almost to the point of the clayton bigsby sketch where he told kids to go see Martinez cuz his stuff was da bomb.
I remember our health teacher showing us step by step instructions & physically showing us how to huff with permanent markers and a plastic bag. He also then proceeded to actually huff said bag and get absolutely faded, right in front of a bunch of 7th graders. I'll never forget it
he is a model interviewer honestly. he doesn't project his opinions at all unless necessary. he gets more info than anyone because he doesn't let himself get in the way.
I like the direction your journalism is taking. Giving people time to speak and presenting history on the subject is valuable. For what it's worth, those throwbacks to your younger self really build your credibility in my eyes.
Andrew gets so much shade from the MSM but he is really showing them how to do Journalism: with a bias towards facts, not ideology or political parties. It's beyond refreshing. The MSM needs to go back to this model and stop trying to control people's minds.
In elementary school the DARE officer was teaching us about reaction times while on drugs. To demonstrate normal reaction time, he took his keys and tossed them towards me. I watched them go by and hit the ground. He said “a normal person would have caught that.” That’s about all I remember of DARE in 5th grade.
Insofar as I know, the non-mitigated human reaction time under ideal circumstances is between .3 and .6 seconds. However: even drugs that seem to boost reaction time can potentially degrade the quality of decision making. Basically, being drunk and snorting some coke doesnt mean you hit sobriety level quality of human mode. You are still drunk and now u are hi on coke.
@@py_a_thon I dunno coke makes you almost completely sober, you could be stumbling about and throwing up do a line and you can walk properly and no longer be vomiting. i doubt your actual reaction time would be that of a sober person but it would definitely help
TBH, Retro Bill's approach to DARE made the most sense to me of the people you interviewed. He doesn't try to punish kids; he tries to reach them where they are at. Everyone else at DARE seemed to understand there's a host of factors that could lead to unwanted drug use, but still leaned on severe punishment to address those issues instead of finding solutions for root causes. So long as punishment remains the go-to reaction, I don't think they'll find the outcome they want.
He seems the most realistic, I disagree with him on a lot of shit but I can absolutely respect the idea of just trying to reach people in lots of different ways until something clicks, and acknowledging that his way definitely won't work for everyone but still trying to make a difference for the few kids he did reach.
Honestly, what clicked for me is when I was in 9th grade and we had some people from a home for people who were using come to my school. There was a guy, probably 20-25, saying he just got to the house today and was using yesterday. The look on his face, the way he spoke, it was devastating. I feel like that man changed my life, and I think about him a lot. That is what worked for me. I think it’s so important to hear from people who use, rather than hear from people who truly know nothing about drugs and what it is like to struggle.
Remember crack was given far harsher punishment back in the 80's than it's brother coke, poor people typically had crack on them the rich bankers coke. So your experience totally tracks since they would prefer to lock up the poor inner city user/dealer than the far more well off businessman.
My DARE officer caught a BUI two summers after I finished DARE, and that following year in 8th grade my class was wild with weed smoking and drinking. Definitely not because our DARE officer got caught, but we all joke that his arrest is what ruined us those 20 years ago 😅
Mine was cool during the program but when I was a teenager I saw him out in public and walked up to say hi. He stared at me with the nastiest scowl on his face and never said a word. F that guy.
I grew up in a loving home with two dedicated parents who did nothing but try their best to make sure I had everything I needed and to raise me to be self sufficient. Clearly my decision to smoke weed when I was 19 came from my inner struggles and deep seeded pain... It for SURE had nothing to do with the fact that it was fun and made Skyrim feel super immersive...
Same here…started at 19 just cause I was bored. I’m 24, turning 25 soon and I think it’s time to put my stuff away. Enjoy your time, don’t get too into it
When I was in elementary school, we had a D.A.R.E officer from our county sheriffs office. He hit and killed a young woman with his patrol car, who was pregnant. At the time of the collision, he was drunk. That was the end of our D.A.R.E program.
I feel like that is the story behind almost every D.A.R.E officer, they are always heavy drug users to end up ODing, killing someone in a DUI, SAing someone, or dying in a DUI. Buncha hypocrites.
@@Adam-nv9zo wouldn't it be amazing if the young pregnant woman and the cop were actually married, and were planning to move out of town.. so they figured, they'd stage the whole thing just to drive home the message for the kids in the community ☺
@earthworm7346 That would be nice, but she died, and so did her unborn baby. And to make it worse because he was a police officer, he just got a slap on the wrist and lost his job at that department just to go get another job at another police department 45 minutes away. The whole thing was disgusting.
I think that’s the first person to successfully get Andrew to answer a question. He’s usually good at pushing the focus back on those he’s interviewing without having to insert his own views or thoughts when asked.
im a functioning member of my community and have been on drugs most of my 60 years of life, I saved and own my own home have kids and 4 horses and 2 dogs we manage fine Thank you very much.
Andrew dude just saying please keep doing what you’re doing until you can’t. I’m a former journalist and you straight up make me wish I didn’t give up. You’re a paladin in a world of darkness. I think your work will transcend even your life. Your strength is rare. Don’t forget that.
We could really use you in your own city providing unbiased news, if you could do me a favor and find sometime every now and then to be a journalist again
To the other commenters: journalism is going through a massive crash at the moment. Thousands upon thousands are being laid off, newspapers are going under, websites are hung under, and even local tv news is going through rough times. It's never been worse than it is right now. At the end of the day your work still needs to feed you and most in the business are never going to be fortunate enough to find 1% of the success that Andrew has.
To stay sober today I read some of Norm McDonald’s book, rode my mountain bike 18 miles, and called my mom. Don’t over think it, just do what you did when you were a kid.
@@micahjones2090 his message at the end about someone coming along in your life as a mentor of some sort and just fundamentally clicking something in your brain is so real and true
@@NegoClau I think he didn't. Again, I think some of these people are genuinely in D.A.R.E. for a good reason and have had some genuinely good impact. Of all stories he could've told, that one was more than credible. Even if you disagree with DARE, you can admit that at best these people genuinely want to help, cause like people suffering from addiction they're not robots or demons, they're people. And before you assume I support DARE, I don't. I am not american and DARE wasn't something I even knew of before getting access to the internet and learning english. I don't agree with DARE's philosophy and definitely don't support its historical context, since that did impact indirectly my life as well. But people are not solely historical contexts.
@Ch-xc4fo Honestly, it seems as though he was advocating for and anecdotally ascertained that in person professionally trained spokespeople are more effective than D.A.R.E. While there must be some programs to educate students on the harm that drugs can cause, it is everything else within D.A.R.E that made it the failure it was. Person to person empathy is powerful.
It's such a satisfying win to hear Andrew ask the guy if he drinks and if he does it for pleasure. I specifically remember learning in this program that alcohol is a drug. This guy explicitly says that people who use any drug have mental or emotional issues. So which is it? That guy could not answer.
i used to run a fundraising company and had a contract with DARE, i’ve met Frank and Misty the President/CEO and CFO. met them at a resort retreat in mexico, they are loaded, boujii as hell but they genuinely believe in what they are trying to accomplish. the man that did the meta analysis that proved Dare had an opposite effect than intended (Richard clayton) was hired to rewrite their curriculum to focus on mental health and coping mechanisms instead of scare tactics. it was wild thinking back about going through DARE when i was younger while drinking cocktails with the owners on the beach in Mexico, after getting through Herion addiction. it was surreal like how did I of all people end up here?
It seems they're really trying to improve. My problem with D.A.R.E. is it's a police program. The officers trying to build trust with kids can also bust them for pot. Get law enforcement out and it would be a much better program.
Thats actually really cool that they genuinely care! Its unfortunate that DARE has become such a laughingstock. I assumed that it was invented by the gov and ran by all cops. I wish the program had been done differently, because no one can argue against “kids shouldnt do drugs”
Andrew, it's crazy how much you taught me about topics I never heard about before. It's in the way your videos are structured, making great points that are connected, to make me understand what's going on in the bigger picture, all while spitting hip hop jokes. The reason why I think your journalism is so unbelievable, is because you can make me instantly interested in topics that are important, but that are at the same time are not even close to being covered in the way you are doing it by bigger media corporations. Absolutely unique, I really really appreciate your work
Andrew and Channel 5 just keep getting better and better! I had been avoiding this video due to the thumbnail. I was blown away by the level of quality journalism
The people who know / who come in contact with addicts have some of the most interesting takes on how to solve these issues and how to treat addicts (see the Channel 5 videos in SF or Las Vegas). To me the DARE conference is just a big thought experiment: a group of people get together and try to solve a problem they have never actually seen. As much as they are in good faith, their effort are often misdirected and ineffective because they live too far from the sad reality of drug addiction
@@vangoghsseveredear Brother, cops "see" the reality of drug addiction as much as a McDonalds line cook "sees" a cow being butchered. They process it and send it away, it doesn't mean they understand or any closer to it than any other person.
This is by far one of my favorite Channel 5 documentaries! The team really gives a good background on the subject, reputable sources for what's happening on the ground, and enough heart to keep us curious for more. I appreciate the work you all do and the way you do it. I lead a team of therapists who support foster and probation youth living in group homes. I'm planning on sharing this with my team. Know that you'll make a difference in the lives of the youth we work with.
the skeleton chick was talking out of her ass though wish they didnt bother showing her fried thought process. Shes talking about how all these drugs are harmless meanwhile shes clearly permafried and physically unhealthy. Walking oxymoron, you can tell her brain is short staffed just look at her glazed over eyes and mouthbreathing lmao
crazy what happens when true journalism and raw conversation is censored by media outlets, even Las Vegas Fox News tried getting his media removed off youtube by claiming free use under the documentary clause was copyright infringement. Normalize getting news from youtubers that get paid by ads and stay independent before Disney buys the platform.
It really stands out in so many ways. And I love how it's super clear at any point, what's "fact" (problematic term, i know) and what is his (or someone elses) opinion.
As an alcohol and other drugs counsellor I always explore with my clients to go back to the basics (looking after Sleep, exercise, diet) distracting yourself and making time/doing things you used to enjoy(self-care) and motivate you for a purpose in life(job,friends, family).
Andrew thank you, your Vegas tunnels videos showed me that if someone living in a tunnel with no money or I'd can get themselves help I can too. You have made a real difference on my life already. Also I love your goal of finding common ground with people with different opinions. Im that way too and I feel like some people just don't get it. We're all humans here and just because we disagree doesn't mean someone has nothing of value to learn from. If we all just think we're 100% right then most of us are actually wrong.
Andrew, when seeing Retro Bill almost tear up when you were talking about your one person, you can tell he whole heartedly agrees with his schtick. Seems like a good guy.
Whoo boy, you must not have gotten to know many good manipulators. Being able to pour as much emotion as possible into whatever the fuck you're talking about is the skill. Retro Bill smells like a garden variety charlatan to me.
I agree with you on that. He seems like a genuin and good guy. But... A very naive, un-educated, mislead guy that believes in something instead of educating himself. I dont know if he believes in his own goodness, god, love, or something else but he clearly let's his feelings and beliefs lead him blindly instead of arming himself with facts to do what his heart tells him to. Therefore he's more dangerous than helpful. The whole DARE-program is suffering from the same issue. They dont what they're working with, they just know their "why" and for them that's enough. I think the scene were he painted over hundreds of stickers and graffiti that was put there by 100s of equal citizens who obviously feel that the public grey spaces looks better with a bit of colour. Then Bill goes there with a bucket of grey paint and covers it all (illegally) because HE feels/thinks that's right in his good heart. His good heart are somehow above others good hearts, and that is extremely dangerous. My own personal perspective of my own drug history (i used amphetamines and H for many years IV, been sober 5 years now) is that if it wouldn't have been for drugs i would have killed myself before twenty. That was my plan and mindset til i found drugs. I clearly remember when i decided to dedicate myself to drugs with the aim to stay alive long enough to overcome my problems. And for me that worked, very well actually. I'm happy today. If Bill would have came to my school to lock me up, i'm not sure that would've ended so well. I'm not saying that my story is a good example. I'm just saying that most of us is good guys. I would never paint over someone's art on public concrete with grey though. That's evil to me. I'm 35 btw.
@@JimmyHagerstrom It was pretty clear from the video that DARE used evidence based methods and was willing to adapt and evolve. Retro Bill is just a mascot I don't see what he said was harmful or misleading. Your described experience actually reaffirms DARE's philosophy that drug users have mental problem which is better solved with therapy than drugs so I don't understand why you used it as an argument. It's good that you stopped abusing drugs because you already are not making much sense.
Drug use helped get a degree which I wouldn't have gotten without them. My life was a mess without drugs. Humans have always used drugs. It's just very recent that they have been seen as inherently criminal acts.
I’m glad you called out the hypocrisy regarding alcohol vs. marijuana. My mom grew up during Reaganomics, and sees weed as more dangerous than alcohol, despite being completely OK with drinking. I’m not one to claim that weed is a glorious drug, but it has certainly killed less people than alcohol which society tolerates.
Both are very dangerous during situations when you have to be sober and responsible. Every state has rules against drunk driving and going to work under the influence of alcohol. These things need to be regulated and used responsibly. Treat one like the other, I always say.
no one has ever overdosed on weed alone, weed has never been as much as a societal issue as heroin or opiates. america demonized weed bc we are racist and mexicans were “bringing” it to america
As a historian, I have to wholeheartedly emphasize: you guys are doing extremely important work here. To contextualize the debate about 'drugs' in America in the framework of, among others, the awful War on Drugs is something most (American) kids don't even learn in high school these days. This is peak journalism: generating contemporary debate, which is contextualized by (sometimes problematic/controversial) historical knowledge, with a smidget of sarcasm and humour to keep the viewer entertained. Proud to be a long time follower, keep up the good work!
This is real journalism at it's best. Both sides are humanized and get equal time. Cable and local news syndicates could take a note, but they're more interested in profit than real journalism. Keep up the great work Andrew and crew. You're helping to set a new standard. P.S. Seattle misses you
Honestly that's insanely effective, not only you think that he already had enough bong for the day, you start wondering whether you are just as incoherent when you're high.
Genuinely, it's self-important control-freaky people like Bill that justify my pharmaceutical escapism from not having to share the same reality with them for a while.
Im a recovering heroin addict, sober some years, and work for a homelessness agency that runs apartments for the chronicly homeless. Unfortunately, the answer is probably somewhere in the middle, nuanced, and highly individualized. Which takes resources, some of which cant be bought, time, and sweeping cultural change at mutliple levels. Part of me says legalize as much as possible because its destroying other countries, or at least cultivating crime and funding crime, but i dont think in the US thatll solve what people think it will, especially looking at those most effected like addicts, homeless, and their families, nor crime adjacent drug use. This is a great vid tho, covers both extremes and some of the middle. Channel 5 always killin it!
Yeah, it's almost like it's actually an extremely complex issue and there isn't a one-size-fits-all solution for addiction! I wish our lawmakers understood this. I'm not sure if I'm fully on board with the legalize everything approach either, but I think decriminalizing all non-violent drug crimes would be a good start. Whatever your opinion is about drug use, I don't think any honest person can say the War on Drugs has been a good thing. I think in the aggregate it has possibly destroyed more lives. Good on you for getting sober. I know it's very difficult and this world certainly doesn't make it easy, but facing reality with a clear head and clear eyes is always more rewarding. Thank you for the work that you do!
@@indieguy81foreal though stuff is still terrible though obv depends on the drug but I was shooting up for like 4 years and got sober and had 3 sizeures detoxing and stuff like that lady is cooked stuff is soo bad obv anything can be used in certain doses but she never been a addict or is a new addict in denial but oxy goes to herion and then fent and messes ppl up hard stuff had a chokehold on me and like so many other ppl
Heroin should for sure be legal. Look at how they do it in parts of Europe. They had a crazy pro with homelessness and open drug use, they legalized and backed it with services including rehab and jobs, housing healthcare etc. we do harm increase here under the guise of harm reduction because it’s not backed by services like that. We half assed it and made things worse. Almost seems like it was on purpose so we can point and say “look, see? Harm reduction doesn’t work!”
I appreciate your honesty. Regarding "Sober some years" I am currently in a battle with a substance myself. And i couldn't of said it any better. I believe if there is a god, He or she understands human nature. And having an addiction, is the most human of natures.✌️
@@indieguy81I too am conflicted. Everything he stated I fully agree with. The one thing that I KNOW has happened, is when weed became legal in multiple states in the northeast, within 1 year no one sold weed anymore. Atleast anyone that I knew and I knew a lot of people that did. When we could just walk in a store and get the same, medical grade herb, there was no reason to buy stuff of the street. And I would imagine that absolutely lowered weed related crimes. Obviously other drugs are not the same. I am conflicted ! The approach that has been taken for decades does not seem to be helping. I’m not saying legalize everything just to be clear!! But we need to start looking at alternative options. Like it was said in the video, the answer is “Love”. To me, love doesn’t look like locking up a teenager and getting them arrested and thrown into an institution to potentially escalate them towards worse behavior and expose them to potentially even more dangerous people that will influence them further. Idk, just spitballing 😂
Love the doc ❤ My twin brother was a victim of the effects of the D.A.R.E erra. We grew up on the oregon coast and picked Oregon Blue mushrooms during our court mandated community service, known as "Road crew". My bother took too many mushrooms one day and ended up in pretty severe legal trouble due to his actions while intoxicated. We were 14 years old and already on probation for fighting with each other on the side of highway 101. He never was able to dig himself out of the legal system, or his psychosis after tripping so hard and "ruining" his life at such a young age. After mamy years of struggling to go to community College and keep himself out of trouble, he found himself homeless for a few years. While homeless and in and out of jail for minor offenses, he found himself sleeping in dumpsters and trying to stay clean. In January of 2021 i got a call that he had been crushed to death in Tacoma Washington by a recycling truck, they found him on the sorting line of a transfer station in rural Pierce County. If drugs were the problem, why did the system treat him like he was the problem? He could never get a leg up and i wish somebody with real resources had vared enough to help him save himself
@@StandardName562 You can't force someone who doesn't want to get help. They could of tried to drag him by the feet and he'd probably of snuck out or just broken out of their house.
I agree. More resources should be directed toward counseling young people who have gotten into trouble with the law. Especially when substances are involved. Btw ignore these negative comments.
"Gateway Drug" has to be the most misused term ever, it does not mean that taking Weed makes you easier to become addicted to harder stuff. It actually means, that to get Weed you need to go to a Dealer, who is economically incentivized to entice and offer you more expensive (Harder) and thus far more profitable Drugs than Weed. The Solution to the "Gateway Drug" thing is literally to open a legal Weed store...
I genuinely disagree. I think you misunderstand what the label means. The one thing I think dare got right was about weed being a gateway drug for *some* people. I’ve seen it happen to myself and to countless others. What you’re missing is the curiosity that weed brings to a lot of people. It opens peoples minds into realizing that illegal substances aren’t inherently bad. I’ve also seen that a lot of people just get bored with weed after smoking for so long and want something more. And I think your theory about dealer pressure is not true at all. This does happen at times but it’s way less common than you’re implying and ignores who is actually dealing weed and drug prices. The majority of weed dealers sell just weed in large part due to stricter penalties for selling harder substances and aren’t even offering people other drugs. You’re also equating hard drugs as more expensive which is not true at all. Meth is one of the most common hard drugs used right now and you can find it at the same price if not cheaper than weed. But in saying all of this it really is only a gateway drug for addiction prone individuals. There are plenty of people who have no urges in trying anything else but weed.
Honestly I get scared most times people talk about alternative news sources.... But This. This right here. This is one of the best news channels I have ever seen - aiming for fair coverage of all sides of an issue, showing personal bias but not bending interviews in that direction, and showing the complexity of a situation while distilling main points for the audience to contemplate. This is journalism
Andrew makes a solid argument for Sigmund Freud I thought he was a wild dude always took his words with more than a few grains of cocaine because he chain smoked and did cocaine all day every day but Andrew really puts his “talking cure” to work it’s like he’s doing the talking cure therapy for the whole country and it does seem to be effective
why do people love their "fair neutral unbiased coverage" when people make stupid arguments you don't need to take them serious or give them credit by framing them as professional
@@oiytd5wugho The way he just stands there with the mic and basically in as few words as possible says “yes yes tell me more about that, and how does that make you feel?” That’s a therapy technique called the talking cure but the guy who came up with it the “father of modern psychology” was a pretty wacky dude although before him people weren’t sure if the brain is where thoughts happen sooo
It’s sad, what keeps kids off drugs is showing them the truth of what things like cigarettes and heroin can do to you. Just saying “just say no” doesn’t show them what actually happens when you do hard drugs.
I got kicked out of D.A.R.E when I was in grade 7. My Dad is a big time anti government, anti church, eat the rich, anarchist type. He had already taught me all about Iran-Contra, The criminalization of weed and hemp as a way to uplift the cotton industry after emancipation, Poisonous pain killers being legal because they come from mega-corps that used to be part of the Third Reich. ect. ect. When I stood up before the class and the poor, clueless junior RCMP officer and delivered my well written essay on these topics and advocating a shift towards harm reduction, it didn't go over well.
Lol I didn't have a dare program in my school or an anarchist dad, but i grew up in the age of the internet and had a similar experience. i remember simply finding out about why weed was actually made illegal through an early youtube documentry. I scoured the internet for hours checking the facts because 8th grade me just couldn't believe it. I brought it to my teacher in complete childish earnisty being like hey the stuff taught in health class about weed is wrong, i think we need to update the information. Next thing you know, im in the principals office having my locker searched while the school constable is asking me when i started smoking weed, while i tried to keep explaining " i dont smoke weed, i dont even plan on drinking until im 18, i just think it should be legalized for A, B, C etc" i was treated like some sort of bad kid for having an opinion, needless to say i was blown back, childhood ended, faith in adults knowing whats up completely gone.
Shoutout to your teacher Andrew, he sounds like a great guy. He doesn't take credit like some narcissist who thinks he's the one making a difference, he knows it is really you, he gave you the opportunity but you're the one who worked toward it and continues to work toward it.
dude the editing.. the documentary is the best thing I have seen, informative engaging and some powerful ultra positive messages! That ending is crisp !
I remember D.A.R.E.. We had an Office Friendly who taught us how to look for drugs in our home and then gave us his contact card so we could call him to get our parents help. He showed us what drugs looked like, smelled like (hahaha) and all that. He went on and on about how much the police CARED about our families. It wasn't just about us being clean but about our parents and even our friends' parents. So yeah. Government rep telling children to dig around in homes looking for drugs so we could become foster kids. He left that part out. The whole prison thing. Also getting our friends' parents arrested? Yeah no mention of that. Just aaaaall about heeeeeellp!
The kids don't know we lived the book "1984" meanwhile everyone who was wealthy was doing everything, selling everything, and now their children own half the US today.
The way you put together something so good with real truth and so impeccable! Thank you for doing what you’re doing!! Every video I have watched I see what you’re doing and it’s great! You care not just there for the views, you want the truth out and it is admired!!
D.A.R.E. was great, they were the first to present me with all of the drug options I had to choose from; along with helpful tips on use. THANKS D.A.R.E.!
DARE kinda messed me up as a kid. My father had been growing his own weed for decades to smoke himself and when i was about 11 or 12 i figured it out. Because DARE and programs like it had gotten so into my head about even how "dangerous" pot was i held some resentment and anger towards my father over it. Even fantasizing sometimes about calling the cops on him when i was mad at him, only to then have a panic attack cause i was worried the cops would then take away our house. All over some pot he just grew and smoked on his own to relax with after work.
Hey at least you weren't dumb enough to call the cops because you can bet your ass they would have tore your family apart as he went to jail for a long time and would lose custody of his kids almost assuredly.
@@monopomanCounterpoint; what dad would grow weed knowing it could land him in jail and tear the family apart? Some responsibility on his side knowing he is bringing danger to the family would have helped. Yes, the war on drugs is stupid but its amazing that even pot is making a man willing to risk his life and family. Seems crazy to me.
@@monopoman I agree with that dont get me wrong. I just thought it was an odd thing for a dad to do in such an uncertain time with dare trying to make kids snitch you know?
@@Deadyguerro It's not even wholly about that. Yes alcohol is dangerous, but so are certain other drugs. The hypocrisy lies within the fact that our government and society accept the harms that come from alcohol use and allows adults to choose to consume it, while simultaneously saying that adults can't choose to consume other substances. It's a pure double standard.
its disgusting. boozebags equate their shitpoison to other drugs so they get paranoid about it because their alcoholism makes it so they cant admit to themselves theyre heavy drug users aswell. the guy at 24:07 is definitely one of em, you can see by the color of his skin and his mantits that hes a boozer
America's history is short but extremely fucking complex and chaotic. There are so many different groups of people, ideologies, fundamental beliefs, etc. Not to mention just how much land we have and how distance creates differences.
Range Wars are a good one, Wikipedia the Pleasant Valley War "The Pleasant Valley War gave the Arizona Territory a reputation of not being ready for statehood" Arizona also executed train robbers.
15 year old student gets caught with drugs, expelled from school, taken to jail, put into the criminal justice system, 18 years later still suffering from the consequences of that and doing manual labor while going to college with kids ten years younger than him. Does that make sense to anyone?
@@MibbilyStibillies I bet you're so much fun at parties. What a terrible take, like you are the judge of "college worthy". You are an insult to education.
@@MibbilyStibilliesOr maybe, bear with me, their education was interrupted. All these adults around, parents/teachers/etc, and they all failed this child. Instead of teaching this person life skills, they were thrust into jail, for a mistake made as a minor. How would YOU help them become college material? Clearly you have the answers...
I was there. Frontlines. LAUSD in the 80’s. In 5th grade we had a cop come into class and give a talk. They told us all about drugs and how to use them. It was straight out of Dave Chappell, except it was a cop. That cop taught me everything I needed to know, in 5th grade. Instant curiosity, exactly how Mr. Daddy said it.
I remember the first year DARE entered our schools in the 90s. We had a officer come in and they gave us these glasses that "resembled being drunk" and put a piece of tape on the floor and we were supposed to walk the line with the glasses on. However, when you took the glasses off, youre way far off of the line. It was so fun and made you feel so funny while wearing the glasses. From that day forward it made me want to try alcohol.
@@sqlevolicious in one dojo i trained with, they nicknamed me 'tweak'.. in teen years, people would assume i was on drugs sometimes, and i never was. I was just very healthy & fit 🤷♂️. I later realized that it was only ever the drug users that thought i was the one on a drug.
Prior to the fentanyl crisis, I would have said she's insane for saying people need more access to prescribed opiates. With all the fentanyl nowadays it would actually make sense to help slow the amount of deaths.
Nobody who is addicted to fentanyl is going to buy heroin and pay taxes on it. Once you’re taking fentanyl, heroin is like taking a Tylenol. Plus it’s far more expensive WITHOUT government trying to get a piece. Unfortunately the only solution to the fentanyl crisis is a little more work than that - cheap (free) long term treatment centres, mental health supports… and maybe let’s stop villainizing addicts
@@baddaytraderThis isn't really true. Most heroin/fentanyl addicts would be much happier if they could have easy access to oxycodone or oxymorphone. And I'm telling you this as somebody in rehab right now for heroin and fentanyl.
@@baddaytraderbut otherwise you're totally on the money about the solutions. Decriminalizing drugs isn't going to increase their use, it will just make addicts less likely to become career criminals if they can get their fix without having to lie, cheat, or steal.
i was born in 90. so, i grew up in the dare program. it literally showed you every drug there was and exactly how to use them. triple c cough medicine was found because of dare in my school.
The DARE group from my middle school brought people in ever semester that where former drug users, showed videos and pictures of drug use. They also brought it alcoholics, showed videos and pictures of drunk driving accidents, brought in 16-17 year old moms to talk about sex and the importance of using condoms. This was in Missouri around 1999.
Dare taught me in 5th grade that every single drug involved needles. It was just a series of posters of needles, spoons, and necrotic arms. The first time I got accurate information about drugs was when I met people who used them, and I finally learned that you don't shoot up weed. The minute kids find out they were being lied to and pandered to, they'll throw everything they've been taught right out the window. It's the opposite of progress.
Im glad you did this video like this. You made the whole thing based around the program and its real effects on the world but instead of doubling up on your side, like having half the episode with the protestor or similar interviewees and you took the place of countering the arguments from the Dare side. This is (almost) perfect reporting man letting both sides make their opinions know and let the VIEWER, not the Network/Host, make the decision of whats right and wrong left and right. Good video Andrew. Youre gonna go far. I was an opiate and fentanyl addict for over a decade and been using drugs like you when i was very young. But im sober except for weed! Very lucky to still be here...
I like your point that everyone talks about drugs as a mental health problem. I think having a drug problem is a health concern. That does not necessarily mean using drugs is a concern on it's own, but becomes one when it interferes with your ability to live a fulfilling life and have healthy relationships.
I remember I won my school's DARE essay contest and ended up a meth addict at 22. In recovery now, but DARE really don't know a thing about the science behind addiction
Great video, only issue was at 20:38 The way you framed that lead up it seemed like you wanted to imply that kid in the clip was getting arrested for a minor drug possession. That person is Martrez Antonio Barnes, they were arrested for sneaking a firearm onto school grounds. Not drug possession. Appreciate the videos!
@@beansdestroyerWhy do you need specifics? If you already knew everything about the content presented in the video, cool. OP seems to have had a different life experience and maybe they're learning about this stuff for the first time. There's nothing wrong with that, and it is worth praising the channel that is reaching a new audience.
-How should we prevent children from doing drugs? -Let's do presentations in 95% of schools telling children about drugs they possibly don't even know exist yet
And instead of telling them the actual dangers, let's pretend like weed is basically fentanyl while alcohol is being legally advertised on television. Then all their bs detectors will go off, turning them against us, thereby causing them to actively seek out these drugs. Let's also make sure that drug use is illegal and villified, so addicts will not seek out help and be more likely to remain addicted
Opioid clean for 5 years and this programs made me interested in drugs as they gave me a whole catalog of them and how they work I remember it said pcp makes you see things that are not there and that blew my mind and made me consider it when I never would have
Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi exist but I guess one has to make meme-worthy videos on TH-cam, rather than serious journalism, to make your list? I'll gladly have Andrew on my top 5 or 10 but he's not the best journalist of the century by a mile - or even the best journalist alive. In all likelihood, he's just the only great journalist you know of, because he's on TH-cam and you don't read Substack, right? Doesn't make him the best rather than it makes you someone who just doesn't know a lot about great journalism. Apologies if my assumptions are wrong.
I had teachers reach out to me throughout school. I was bullied for being different and for being mixed. Not white enough for the white kids, not black enough for the black kids. I was also sorta adopted by my step dad's parents. I never ever felt like I belonged anywhere. But those few teachers that really reached into me and made me feel safe, made me feel heard, let me be me, they changed my life. My grand parents also let me be the weirdo I am. Never once told me to be anything that I'm not. Constantly encouraged me to be me and try and learn new things. I couldn't be more thankful for those who have impacted me.
Yeah, I'm mixed too. Nobody loved me, and I've been to prison. Shit sucks. Glad somebody was nice to you. I wish the same for most kids that don't fit because I didn't. Everyone hated me, from home to school and in between.
Hope you never need a bone marrow transplant. *Keep in mind there is not a single human species.* There is a really strong reason they want to stamp out racism except against whites and not jews. Keep it in mind my hybrid frens.
I am now going to start finding things I have in common with people I disagree with as well. Keep walking that middle path. Thanks for the inspiration!
seems like Channel 5 is more focused on letting the content speak for itself and not really challenging it. ultimately it’s up to you to decide what you disagree and agree with
@@adamplentl5588 yeh he's a leftie for sure lol but who cares? People are allowed to have opinions you know. Calling him a 'avowed leftist' is definitely a reach.
1:06 He looks EXACTLY like the mayor from Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, albeit slimmer. Huh, he also really does look like Elvis. What a funny guy.
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i've been sober from drugs and alcohol for 3 years now, but 15 seconds of retro bill snapping his fingers made me want to use again
wow 2:56 confirmed my point
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@@1weballin dude got statistics to prove his point lmaoo😭😭
@@hboyO2lmao
I rolled my eyes bc I thought you were exaggerating, but then that part came on and I understood lol
The problem I see with DARE is that these officers never even tried drugs so they have no idea what they are talking about. We need actual people whose lives were ruined by drugs to come to schools and share their experiences. The funding could also go to get these people back on track as this can be their full time job.
You would be a TERRIBLE politician
If I was in school and some officer came and told us: ‘do not vape, its uncool’, I would think the opposite.
If it was a person that needs a device to talk and looks absolutely fucked up because of lung/throat cancer, it would scare the shit out of my young mind so that I will be less prone to try it.
We had some prsioners come in and talk to us in highschool. One had been a meth cook and had a hole in hir heart from cooking. Its wasnt part of dare though.
that never worked. we had many ex-addicts come to speak to us at my school from middle school to high school and no one cared or paid attention. what they need to do is talk about what drugs actually do to you and not the "makes you lazy" bs. they need to show studies and bring in neurologists, for example drinking lets say, when it came to alcohol you just hear how it messes up your liver and addiction to it can ruin your family, but bringing up how it destroys grey brain matter is a lot more substance. i became sober from all intoxicants when I started reading the effects of drugs.
@@bekakilov9656 You described what happened with the original DARE program. It largely had the opposite effect.
90's kid here. Dare introduced my generation to drugs. The showed us what weed is in 5th grade, and we were smoking it in 6th grade. I remember once when they were describing the negative effects of weed. One of the negative effects was "a feeling of euphoria". We looked that word up in the dictionary that day and got pretty curious.
I realized alcohol was a drug and saw adults doing drugs all over, irl and my 4:3 tv
You're not alone. They even had illustrations on how you can take money out of your grandmother's purse and can find pills in the cabinet.
lmao
how tf u get weed as a 6th grader
I remember we watched a video in DARE that had a 90s graphic of bent spoons dancing in 5th grade. I asked the officer what those spoons were. Dude gave a detailed play by play in how to shoot up heroin. It always stayed with me because of how insane it was to me. It was almost to the point of the clayton bigsby sketch where he told kids to go see Martinez cuz his stuff was da bomb.
I remember our health teacher showing us step by step instructions & physically showing us how to huff with permanent markers and a plastic bag. He also then proceeded to actually huff said bag and get absolutely faded, right in front of a bunch of 7th graders. I'll never forget it
holy shit man, public schooling…
@CloveCoast honestly insane. This man somehow drove a blue corvette too lmao
@@afewtalkingheadswtf this is crazy what year is this?
bro im dying 🤣🤣🤣🤣
What a damn legend 😂
I love how non-patronizing you are to everyone you speak with, even the people you fundamentally disagree with. You the goat.
Even when they're all WRONG!
Except for the women hes assaulted.
he is a model interviewer honestly. he doesn't project his opinions at all unless necessary. he gets more info than anyone because he doesn't let himself get in the way.
I don’t know how he keeps a straight face while confronting the bullshit he hears.
@@cruzin54321 so true hes always so calm and focused its insane
I like the direction your journalism is taking. Giving people time to speak and presenting history on the subject is valuable. For what it's worth, those throwbacks to your younger self really build your credibility in my eyes.
Andrew gets so much shade from the MSM but he is really showing them how to do Journalism: with a bias towards facts, not ideology or political parties.
It's beyond refreshing. The MSM needs to go back to this model and stop trying to control people's minds.
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I also appreciate that he is honest about his own opinions or biases on the matter, rather than pretending to be unbiased journalism.
In elementary school the DARE officer was teaching us about reaction times while on drugs. To demonstrate normal reaction time, he took his keys and tossed them towards me. I watched them go by and hit the ground. He said “a normal person would have caught that.” That’s about all I remember of DARE in 5th grade.
Insofar as I know, the non-mitigated human reaction time under ideal circumstances is between .3 and .6 seconds. However: even drugs that seem to boost reaction time can potentially degrade the quality of decision making.
Basically, being drunk and snorting some coke doesnt mean you hit sobriety level quality of human mode. You are still drunk and now u are hi on coke.
@@py_a_thon If he asked me to catch them I would have. Why go out of my way? :)
Right? A normal person would have given you a heads up 😂@@dsyncd555
"That’s about all I remember of DARE in 5th grade." NO SHIT... You were high af the whole time!
@@py_a_thon I dunno coke makes you almost completely sober, you could be stumbling about and throwing up do a line and you can walk properly and no longer be vomiting. i doubt your actual reaction time would be that of a sober person but it would definitely help
can you imagine what retro bill would have done with the vine boom if it had been around then. i shudder to think of it
imo this guy predicted the future of entertainment tech
@@5naf6 Him and Bill nye lmao
TBH, Retro Bill's approach to DARE made the most sense to me of the people you interviewed. He doesn't try to punish kids; he tries to reach them where they are at. Everyone else at DARE seemed to understand there's a host of factors that could lead to unwanted drug use, but still leaned on severe punishment to address those issues instead of finding solutions for root causes. So long as punishment remains the go-to reaction, I don't think they'll find the outcome they want.
good observation
Bill seems like a coke addict and only puts on a show to talk to kids about anti-drug, but when he finds that one is a dealer, he gets real friendly.
He seems the most realistic, I disagree with him on a lot of shit but I can absolutely respect the idea of just trying to reach people in lots of different ways until something clicks, and acknowledging that his way definitely won't work for everyone but still trying to make a difference for the few kids he did reach.
Yet he is enrolled with the people who punish small kids, seems like he cares more about his character than actually finding a way to help.
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Honestly, what clicked for me is when I was in 9th grade and we had some people from a home for people who were using come to my school. There was a guy, probably 20-25, saying he just got to the house today and was using yesterday. The look on his face, the way he spoke, it was devastating. I feel like that man changed my life, and I think about him a lot. That is what worked for me. I think it’s so important to hear from people who use, rather than hear from people who truly know nothing about drugs and what it is like to struggle.
That's called a confidence trick. Sorry fren. You failed the IQ test. You trusted the words of a liar.
@@Moe_Posting_Chad dafuq
@@Moe_Posting_Chad ur weird as fuck ngl
@@Moe_Posting_Chadwho do u think u are buddy😭 ur not a psychologist
@@cooper8473 I don't need to be an expert to accurately survey the world I live in.
My school’s DARE officer was caught with cocaine and only got demoted. Today he’s back as one of the highest ranking officers in the town
Remember crack was given far harsher punishment back in the 80's than it's brother coke, poor people typically had crack on them the rich bankers coke. So your experience totally tracks since they would prefer to lock up the poor inner city user/dealer than the far more well off businessman.
one of the HIGHEST officers in town 🤪
My DARE officer caught a BUI two summers after I finished DARE, and that following year in 8th grade my class was wild with weed smoking and drinking. Definitely not because our DARE officer got caught, but we all joke that his arrest is what ruined us those 20 years ago 😅
Mine SA'd a drunk underage girl
Mine was cool during the program but when I was a teenager I saw him out in public and walked up to say hi. He stared at me with the nastiest scowl on his face and never said a word. F that guy.
I grew up in a loving home with two dedicated parents who did nothing but try their best to make sure I had everything I needed and to raise me to be self sufficient. Clearly my decision to smoke weed when I was 19 came from my inner struggles and deep seeded pain... It for SURE had nothing to do with the fact that it was fun and made Skyrim feel super immersive...
Damn, so it was the depression huh?
You sure you didn't take skooma?
@@aqueousdog skooma bong rips are the best
you speak nothing but the truth brother 😭
Same here…started at 19 just cause I was bored. I’m 24, turning 25 soon and I think it’s time to put my stuff away. Enjoy your time, don’t get too into it
When I was in elementary school, we had a D.A.R.E officer from our county sheriffs office. He hit and killed a young woman with his patrol car, who was pregnant. At the time of the collision, he was drunk. That was the end of our D.A.R.E program.
I feel like that is the story behind almost every D.A.R.E officer, they are always heavy drug users to end up ODing, killing someone in a DUI, SAing someone, or dying in a DUI. Buncha hypocrites.
Did it work to keep you fron using alcohol?
@earthworm7346 Well, I never have had a drinking problem, so maybe.
@@Adam-nv9zo wouldn't it be amazing if the young pregnant woman and the cop were actually married, and were planning to move out of town.. so they figured, they'd stage the whole thing just to drive home the message for the kids in the community ☺
@earthworm7346 That would be nice, but she died, and so did her unborn baby. And to make it worse because he was a police officer, he just got a slap on the wrist and lost his job at that department just to go get another job at another police department 45 minutes away. The whole thing was disgusting.
Andrew is absolutely the GOAT journalist. Ever since Vice fell off, he's been one of the few people keeping such an important field alive.
Blame right wing media. They bought out Vice.
Why vice fell off?
*I'm not US citizen
Vice has always been shit, mate
Not really, did you miss the bitch shit he got up to in Kiev? Dude ran away just as quickly as he was trying to jump on the war views.
@@bronson4574 Watch their work in the Donbass and Iraq if you think that.
Retro Bill turning the question around and asking Andrew who changed his life was pretty wholesome. Really enjoy some Channel 5 lore
retro is a real 1
I am Crying Real Tears So Hard
I think that’s the first person to successfully get Andrew to answer a question. He’s usually good at pushing the focus back on those he’s interviewing without having to insert his own views or thoughts when asked.
I really thought we were done with the word "wholesome" 😩
@@potatoplayboy Same ...
im a functioning member of my community and have been on drugs most of my 60 years of life, I saved and own my own home have kids and 4 horses and 2 dogs we manage fine Thank you very much.
Andrew dude just saying please keep doing what you’re doing until you can’t. I’m a former journalist and you straight up make me wish I didn’t give up. You’re a paladin in a world of darkness. I think your work will transcend even your life. Your strength is rare. Don’t forget that.
Go back into journalism my man. Maybe you find the fire again.
FACTS!!!
We could really use you in your own city providing unbiased news, if you could do me a favor and find sometime every now and then to be a journalist again
Andrew already has a lot of classic clips that people don’t even know belong to him. For example, the “white boy summer big booty latina” clip lol
To the other commenters: journalism is going through a massive crash at the moment. Thousands upon thousands are being laid off, newspapers are going under, websites are hung under, and even local tv news is going through rough times. It's never been worse than it is right now.
At the end of the day your work still needs to feed you and most in the business are never going to be fortunate enough to find 1% of the success that Andrew has.
To stay sober today I read some of Norm McDonald’s book, rode my mountain bike 18 miles, and called my mom. Don’t over think it, just do what you did when you were a kid.
This is great advice as someone struggling with a recent sober lifestyle chnage 🙏 healing my inner child is fr what i need most
Sending love to both of you 💕
@@dippyfresh7676 thank u brother ❤️
Proud of you bros 💪
Keep sober. Get on that bike and get outdoors.
I love how retro bill's voice got a little more urban when denying the bong.
If you’re gonna decline a fat bong rip you better be cool doing it
"urban"? coded af
@@iLikeMelkYou seem fun
@@Manwithaplan2021 only at parties
@@iLikeMelk that's the joke bro
Can't believe Retro Bill is real and not an Eric Andre Show character 😂😂😂
Looks like a Mr. Show sketch.
"I'm gonna say what no one else is willing to say; America has a fking fentanyl crisis."
- Gwimbly
So bold of him 😢
Google 10 little monkeys origin
oooh oooh oooohh!
Rip Mr Millipede, taken from us too soon 😢
@@destroymarcy Well, I don't do my iconic victory dance for nothing
Hitting the pen while watching retro bill is a surreal experience
i was thinking the same thing lol
D.E.E.M.S??
Dude it makes me wanna apologize to him. I kinda respect him as goofy as he is. Sorry Bill but I’m a man now and I likea the weed
That dude is definitely hopped up on sugar.
lmao hitting the penjamin silly
That end about Andrew's teacher was fantastic. I'm glad Retro Bill gave you the question.
And the snaps 🫰🫰🫰 were the icing on the cake
@@micahjones2090 his message at the end about someone coming along in your life as a mentor of some sort and just fundamentally clicking something in your brain is so real and true
I guess he made up the whole thing.
@@NegoClau I think he didn't. Again, I think some of these people are genuinely in D.A.R.E. for a good reason and have had some genuinely good impact. Of all stories he could've told, that one was more than credible. Even if you disagree with DARE, you can admit that at best these people genuinely want to help, cause like people suffering from addiction they're not robots or demons, they're people.
And before you assume I support DARE, I don't. I am not american and DARE wasn't something I even knew of before getting access to the internet and learning english. I don't agree with DARE's philosophy and definitely don't support its historical context, since that did impact indirectly my life as well. But people are not solely historical contexts.
@Ch-xc4fo Honestly, it seems as though he was advocating for and anecdotally ascertained that in person professionally trained spokespeople are more effective than D.A.R.E. While there must be some programs to educate students on the harm that drugs can cause, it is everything else within D.A.R.E that made it the failure it was. Person to person empathy is powerful.
It's such a satisfying win to hear Andrew ask the guy if he drinks and if he does it for pleasure. I specifically remember learning in this program that alcohol is a drug. This guy explicitly says that people who use any drug have mental or emotional issues. So which is it? That guy could not answer.
Don't forget that caffeine is also considered a drug! (and one of the most addictive too). Makes it all even more interesting
I can't believe Robbie Rotten became the D.A.R.E. spokesperson...
all jokes aside RIP to the actual actor he was a cool guy
@@Oakslee While Robbie was Rotten, Stefán Stefánsson turned out to be a pretty fresh dude
😂 did you learn anything today?
@@biggreen1456the eternal #1
Crazy things happen when you die!
i used to run a fundraising company and had a contract with DARE, i’ve met Frank and Misty the President/CEO and CFO. met them at a resort retreat in mexico, they are loaded, boujii as hell but they genuinely believe in what they are trying to accomplish. the man that did the meta analysis that proved Dare had an opposite effect than intended (Richard clayton) was hired to rewrite their curriculum to focus on mental health and coping mechanisms instead of scare tactics. it was wild thinking back about going through DARE when i was younger while drinking cocktails with the owners on the beach in Mexico, after getting through Herion addiction. it was surreal like how did I of all people end up here?
They’re alcoholics aren’t they?
Money.
I live in Canada and all the dare program did was teach you how to do drugs.
It seems they're really trying to improve. My problem with D.A.R.E. is it's a police program. The officers trying to build trust with kids can also bust them for pot. Get law enforcement out and it would be a much better program.
Thats actually really cool that they genuinely care! Its unfortunate that DARE has become such a laughingstock. I assumed that it was invented by the gov and ran by all cops. I wish the program had been done differently, because no one can argue against “kids shouldnt do drugs”
Andrew, it's crazy how much you taught me about topics I never heard about before. It's in the way your videos are structured, making great points that are connected, to make me understand what's going on in the bigger picture, all while spitting hip hop jokes. The reason why I think your journalism is so unbelievable, is because you can make me instantly interested in topics that are important, but that are at the same time are not even close to being covered in the way you are doing it by bigger media corporations. Absolutely unique, I really really appreciate your work
Andrew and Channel 5 just keep getting better and better! I had been avoiding this video due to the thumbnail. I was blown away by the level of quality journalism
The people who know / who come in contact with addicts have some of the most interesting takes on how to solve these issues and how to treat addicts (see the Channel 5 videos in SF or Las Vegas).
To me the DARE conference is just a big thought experiment: a group of people get together and try to solve a problem they have never actually seen. As much as they are in good faith, their effort are often misdirected and ineffective because they live too far from the sad reality of drug addiction
Never seen? A lot are legit police officers. They see it more than almost anybody
@@vangoghsseveredearMaybe he could replace “seen” with “understood”
Exactly, they think drugs are just an addiction, when its usually brought on by mental health issues, which they never address
@@vangoghsseveredear Brother, cops "see" the reality of drug addiction as much as a McDonalds line cook "sees" a cow being butchered. They process it and send it away, it doesn't mean they understand or any closer to it than any other person.
@@vangoghsseveredearnever see them as people*
This is by far one of my favorite Channel 5 documentaries! The team really gives a good background on the subject, reputable sources for what's happening on the ground, and enough heart to keep us curious for more. I appreciate the work you all do and the way you do it.
I lead a team of therapists who support foster and probation youth living in group homes. I'm planning on sharing this with my team. Know that you'll make a difference in the lives of the youth we work with.
Insanely high level interviews on this channel. There's not many people reporting at the level that this channel is. Thank you!
the skeleton chick was talking out of her ass though wish they didnt bother showing her fried thought process. Shes talking about how all these drugs are harmless meanwhile shes clearly permafried and physically unhealthy. Walking oxymoron, you can tell her brain is short staffed just look at her glazed over eyes and mouthbreathing lmao
crazy what happens when true journalism and raw conversation is censored by media outlets, even Las Vegas Fox News tried getting his media removed off youtube by claiming free use under the documentary clause was copyright infringement. Normalize getting news from youtubers that get paid by ads and stay independent before Disney buys the platform.
THIS IS FACTS. These videos seriously just keep getting better and better. Insane.
I can't tell if this is sarcasm
It really stands out in so many ways. And I love how it's super clear at any point, what's "fact" (problematic term, i know) and what is his (or someone elses) opinion.
As an alcohol and other drugs counsellor I always explore with my clients to go back to the basics (looking after Sleep, exercise, diet) distracting yourself and making time/doing things you used to enjoy(self-care) and motivate you for a purpose in life(job,friends, family).
Sounds logical.
Andrew thank you, your Vegas tunnels videos showed me that if someone living in a tunnel with no money or I'd can get themselves help I can too. You have made a real difference on my life already.
Also I love your goal of finding common ground with people with different opinions. Im that way too and I feel like some people just don't get it. We're all humans here and just because we disagree doesn't mean someone has nothing of value to learn from. If we all just think we're 100% right then most of us are actually wrong.
Andrew, when seeing Retro Bill almost tear up when you were talking about your one person, you can tell he whole heartedly agrees with his schtick. Seems like a good guy.
he seems like an amazing man
Whoo boy, you must not have gotten to know many good manipulators. Being able to pour as much emotion as possible into whatever the fuck you're talking about is the skill. Retro Bill smells like a garden variety charlatan to me.
I agree with you on that. He seems like a genuin and good guy. But... A very naive, un-educated, mislead guy that believes in something instead of educating himself. I dont know if he believes in his own goodness, god, love, or something else but he clearly let's his feelings and beliefs lead him blindly instead of arming himself with facts to do what his heart tells him to.
Therefore he's more dangerous than helpful. The whole DARE-program is suffering from the same issue. They dont what they're working with, they just know their "why" and for them that's enough.
I think the scene were he painted over hundreds of stickers and graffiti that was put there by 100s of equal citizens who obviously feel that the public grey spaces looks better with a bit of colour. Then Bill goes there with a bucket of grey paint and covers it all (illegally) because HE feels/thinks that's right in his good heart. His good heart are somehow above others good hearts, and that is extremely dangerous.
My own personal perspective of my own drug history (i used amphetamines and H for many years IV, been sober 5 years now) is that if it wouldn't have been for drugs i would have killed myself before twenty. That was my plan and mindset til i found drugs. I clearly remember when i decided to dedicate myself to drugs with the aim to stay alive long enough to overcome my problems. And for me that worked, very well actually. I'm happy today. If Bill would have came to my school to lock me up, i'm not sure that would've ended so well.
I'm not saying that my story is a good example. I'm just saying that most of us is good guys. I would never paint over someone's art on public concrete with grey though. That's evil to me.
I'm 35 btw.
@@JimmyHagerstrom It was pretty clear from the video that DARE used evidence based methods and was willing to adapt and evolve. Retro Bill is just a mascot I don't see what he said was harmful or misleading. Your described experience actually reaffirms DARE's philosophy that drug users have mental problem which is better solved with therapy than drugs so I don't understand why you used it as an argument. It's good that you stopped abusing drugs because you already are not making much sense.
Drug use helped get a degree which I wouldn't have gotten without them. My life was a mess without drugs. Humans have always used drugs. It's just very recent that they have been seen as inherently criminal acts.
I’m glad you called out the hypocrisy regarding alcohol vs. marijuana. My mom grew up during Reaganomics, and sees weed as more dangerous than alcohol, despite being completely OK with drinking. I’m not one to claim that weed is a glorious drug, but it has certainly killed less people than alcohol which society tolerates.
It's 2024 bro stop arguing with your mother about weed.
@@hypno5690 and do what?
Both are very dangerous during situations when you have to be sober and responsible. Every state has rules against drunk driving and going to work under the influence of alcohol. These things need to be regulated and used responsibly. Treat one like the other, I always say.
no one has ever overdosed on weed alone, weed has never been as much as a societal issue as heroin or opiates. america demonized weed bc we are racist and mexicans were “bringing” it to america
As a historian, I have to wholeheartedly emphasize: you guys are doing extremely important work here. To contextualize the debate about 'drugs' in America in the framework of, among others, the awful War on Drugs is something most (American) kids don't even learn in high school these days. This is peak journalism: generating contemporary debate, which is contextualized by (sometimes problematic/controversial) historical knowledge, with a smidget of sarcasm and humour to keep the viewer entertained. Proud to be a long time follower, keep up the good work!
When I grow up, I want to be a Teachler. Thanks, Retro Bill.
I will be proud to be your studentler.
This is real journalism at it's best. Both sides are humanized and get equal time. Cable and local news syndicates could take a note, but they're more interested in profit than real journalism. Keep up the great work Andrew and crew. You're helping to set a new standard. P.S. Seattle misses you
Journalism at its* best, no apostrophe saying it is best. Ours. Theirs. Its. No apostrophe for belonging to, because it's/it is already exists!
@@thekeysman6760 its a TH-cam comments section dude!
I always leave these videos with a broader, more human perspective.
Well said - Its Sad that that is not reality for media
Bad ideas don’t deserve equal time, that is right wing nonsense my dude
Andrew: "Hey, wanna hit this bong?"
Retro Bill: "I was paralyzed from the waste down last summer."
that gas station shit vro😢
Retro Bill rolling nothing but natural 20s.
shit i be thinking he's on drugs after he said all that
Honestly that's insanely effective, not only you think that he already had enough bong for the day, you start wondering whether you are just as incoherent when you're high.
@@MagnumCarta 🤣🤣🤣
when bill got offered a fat bong hit at 43:20 and he responds with feeling your fingertips and being alive I'd be like "yeah man nvm you good already"
i agree that shit would work
Thank you Retro Bill, after hearing you speak, it finally clicked for me. I need to be doing more drugs.
Hell yeah
Yeah I think he is undercover and in reality an advocate for drugs.
Wack af grow up child ,drugs are gonna put ur ass in the dirt ,don't worry 😂
@@Patrick-if9idNah - He just wants to violate children.
Genuinely, it's self-important control-freaky people like Bill that justify my pharmaceutical escapism from not having to share the same reality with them for a while.
Im a recovering heroin addict, sober some years, and work for a homelessness agency that runs apartments for the chronicly homeless. Unfortunately, the answer is probably somewhere in the middle, nuanced, and highly individualized. Which takes resources, some of which cant be bought, time, and sweeping cultural change at mutliple levels. Part of me says legalize as much as possible because its destroying other countries, or at least cultivating crime and funding crime, but i dont think in the US thatll solve what people think it will, especially looking at those most effected like addicts, homeless, and their families, nor crime adjacent drug use. This is a great vid tho, covers both extremes and some of the middle. Channel 5 always killin it!
Yeah, it's almost like it's actually an extremely complex issue and there isn't a one-size-fits-all solution for addiction! I wish our lawmakers understood this. I'm not sure if I'm fully on board with the legalize everything approach either, but I think decriminalizing all non-violent drug crimes would be a good start. Whatever your opinion is about drug use, I don't think any honest person can say the War on Drugs has been a good thing. I think in the aggregate it has possibly destroyed more lives. Good on you for getting sober. I know it's very difficult and this world certainly doesn't make it easy, but facing reality with a clear head and clear eyes is always more rewarding. Thank you for the work that you do!
@@indieguy81foreal though stuff is still terrible though obv depends on the drug but I was shooting up for like 4 years and got sober and had 3 sizeures detoxing and stuff like that lady is cooked stuff is soo bad obv anything can be used in certain doses but she never been a addict or is a new addict in denial but oxy goes to herion and then fent and messes ppl up hard stuff had a chokehold on me and like so many other ppl
Heroin should for sure be legal. Look at how they do it in parts of Europe. They had a crazy pro with homelessness and open drug use, they legalized and backed it with services including rehab and jobs, housing healthcare etc. we do harm increase here under the guise of harm reduction because it’s not backed by services like that. We half assed it and made things worse. Almost seems like it was on purpose so we can point and say “look, see? Harm reduction doesn’t work!”
I appreciate your honesty. Regarding "Sober some years" I am currently in a battle with a substance myself. And i couldn't of said it any better. I believe if there is a god, He or she understands human nature. And having an addiction, is the most human of natures.✌️
@@indieguy81I too am conflicted. Everything he stated I fully agree with. The one thing that I KNOW has happened, is when weed became legal in multiple states in the northeast, within 1 year no one sold weed anymore. Atleast anyone that I knew and I knew a lot of people that did. When we could just walk in a store and get the same, medical grade herb, there was no reason to buy stuff of the street. And I would imagine that absolutely lowered weed related crimes. Obviously other drugs are not the same. I am conflicted ! The approach that has been taken for decades does not seem to be helping. I’m not saying legalize everything just to be clear!! But we need to start looking at alternative options. Like it was said in the video, the answer is “Love”. To me, love doesn’t look like locking up a teenager and getting them arrested and thrown into an institution to potentially escalate them towards worse behavior and expose them to potentially even more dangerous people that will influence them further. Idk, just spitballing 😂
Dude played a role in the 90s and turned it into his entire existence 😂💀💀
It fed his coke habit
I Wonder how much he makes
@@Juva_oprobably 6 figures. Sure it’s a good living
He does drugs
🎶 back in the nineties🎶
🎶 I was in a very famous TV show 🎶
"home to only 1 Pacific Islander" really caught me off guard, lmao
Love the doc ❤
My twin brother was a victim of the effects of the D.A.R.E erra.
We grew up on the oregon coast and picked Oregon Blue mushrooms during our court mandated community service, known as "Road crew". My bother took too many mushrooms one day and ended up in pretty severe legal trouble due to his actions while intoxicated. We were 14 years old and already on probation for fighting with each other on the side of highway 101.
He never was able to dig himself out of the legal system, or his psychosis after tripping so hard and "ruining" his life at such a young age. After mamy years of struggling to go to community College and keep himself out of trouble, he found himself homeless for a few years. While homeless and in and out of jail for minor offenses, he found himself sleeping in dumpsters and trying to stay clean. In January of 2021 i got a call that he had been crushed to death in Tacoma Washington by a recycling truck, they found him on the sorting line of a transfer station in rural Pierce County.
If drugs were the problem, why did the system treat him like he was the problem? He could never get a leg up and i wish somebody with real resources had vared enough to help him save himself
You, as family, could have given him a leg up. My brother is also an addict, but I would never let him sleep in a dumpster.
How did he 'find himself' homeless? Was he shunned by the family? Or just not aware?
@@StandardName562 You can't force someone who doesn't want to get help. They could of tried to drag him by the feet and he'd probably of snuck out or just broken out of their house.
I agree. More resources should be directed toward counseling young people who have gotten into trouble with the law. Especially when substances are involved.
Btw ignore these negative comments.
Take some accountability.
"Gateway Drug" has to be the most misused term ever, it does not mean that taking Weed makes you easier to become addicted to harder stuff.
It actually means, that to get Weed you need to go to a Dealer, who is economically incentivized to entice and offer you more expensive (Harder) and thus far more profitable Drugs than Weed.
The Solution to the "Gateway Drug" thing is literally to open a legal Weed store...
alcohol is the biggest gateway drug and its legal to buy at stores
it literally makes your dopamine receptors more open to addiction
@@Alan-kl9vr Yup. So does sex, coffee, working out, and having a good time with friends
If your weed guy is selling hard stuff, you got the wrong weed guy.
I genuinely disagree. I think you misunderstand what the label means. The one thing I think dare got right was about weed being a gateway drug for *some* people. I’ve seen it happen to myself and to countless others. What you’re missing is the curiosity that weed brings to a lot of people. It opens peoples minds into realizing that illegal substances aren’t inherently bad. I’ve also seen that a lot of people just get bored with weed after smoking for so long and want something more. And I think your theory about dealer pressure is not true at all. This does happen at times but it’s way less common than you’re implying and ignores who is actually dealing weed and drug prices. The majority of weed dealers sell just weed in large part due to stricter penalties for selling harder substances and aren’t even offering people other drugs. You’re also equating hard drugs as more expensive which is not true at all. Meth is one of the most common hard drugs used right now and you can find it at the same price if not cheaper than weed. But in saying all of this it really is only a gateway drug for addiction prone individuals. There are plenty of people who have no urges in trying anything else but weed.
This is how journalism should be. Showing another side you may or may not agree with, and trying to understand. Love, love, LOVE this ❤
Retro Bill snapping his fingers made me feel like I was watching Tim Heidecker or John C Reilly doing a bit
"You could be a Teachler"
Honestly I get scared most times people talk about alternative news sources.... But This. This right here. This is one of the best news channels I have ever seen - aiming for fair coverage of all sides of an issue, showing personal bias but not bending interviews in that direction, and showing the complexity of a situation while distilling main points for the audience to contemplate. This is journalism
Andrew makes a solid argument for Sigmund Freud I thought he was a wild dude always took his words with more than a few grains of cocaine because he chain smoked and did cocaine all day every day but Andrew really puts his “talking cure” to work it’s like he’s doing the talking cure therapy for the whole country and it does seem to be effective
why do people love their "fair neutral unbiased coverage" when people make stupid arguments you don't need to take them serious or give them credit by framing them as professional
@@nothanks9503 wtf are you talking about?
@@oiytd5wugho The way he just stands there with the mic and basically in as few words as possible says “yes yes tell me more about that, and how does that make you feel?” That’s a therapy technique called the talking cure but the guy who came up with it the “father of modern psychology” was a pretty wacky dude although before him people weren’t sure if the brain is where thoughts happen sooo
@@joyce8120 You have to be supportive and let them talk that’s the only way to get unbiased reporting
Channel 5 has turned into the most eye opening channel on youtube, these videos deserve praise.
And phenomenal editing
Best journalism out there. Andrew doing great work 👍🏿
5 bucks per month is enough. Praise won't give anything on their plates.
did you really not know all of this was going on? do you never watch the news?
“What do you think is the best way to keep kids off drugs?” Love. I wanted to cry.
its valid
the only real statement
It’s sad, what keeps kids off drugs is showing them the truth of what things like cigarettes and heroin can do to you. Just saying “just say no” doesn’t show them what actually happens when you do hard drugs.
They'll surely get plenty of love in juvie and foster homes after involving DARE
I got kicked out of D.A.R.E when I was in grade 7. My Dad is a big time anti government, anti church, eat the rich, anarchist type. He had already taught me all about Iran-Contra, The criminalization of weed and hemp as a way to uplift the cotton industry after emancipation, Poisonous pain killers being legal because they come from mega-corps that used to be part of the Third Reich. ect. ect. When I stood up before the class and the poor, clueless junior RCMP officer and delivered my well written essay on these topics and advocating a shift towards harm reduction, it didn't go over well.
Holy shit, unfathomably based
The most based 8th grader ever holy cow
Lol I didn't have a dare program in my school or an anarchist dad, but i grew up in the age of the internet and had a similar experience. i remember simply finding out about why weed was actually made illegal through an early youtube documentry. I scoured the internet for hours checking the facts because 8th grade me just couldn't believe it. I brought it to my teacher in complete childish earnisty being like hey the stuff taught in health class about weed is wrong, i think we need to update the information. Next thing you know, im in the principals office having my locker searched while the school constable is asking me when i started smoking weed, while i tried to keep explaining " i dont smoke weed, i dont even plan on drinking until im 18, i just think it should be legalized for A, B, C etc" i was treated like some sort of bad kid for having an opinion, needless to say i was blown back, childhood ended, faith in adults knowing whats up completely gone.
Shoutout to your teacher Andrew, he sounds like a great guy. He doesn't take credit like some narcissist who thinks he's the one making a difference, he knows it is really you, he gave you the opportunity but you're the one who worked toward it and continues to work toward it.
*teachelor
The comment I was hoping to find ❤ God bless y'all!
"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less..."
C.S Lewis
@@Woppatownlmao 💀
what are y0u talking ab0ut bill is literally the s0rce 0f all p0ssitiv energy
dude the editing..
the documentary is the best thing I have seen, informative engaging and some powerful ultra positive messages! That ending is crisp !
What are some good editing programs?
I remember D.A.R.E.. We had an Office Friendly who taught us how to look for drugs in our home and then gave us his contact card so we could call him to get our parents help.
He showed us what drugs looked like, smelled like (hahaha) and all that. He went on and on about how much the police CARED about our families. It wasn't just about us being clean but about our parents and even our friends' parents.
So yeah. Government rep telling children to dig around in homes looking for drugs so we could become foster kids.
He left that part out. The whole prison thing. Also getting our friends' parents arrested? Yeah no mention of that.
Just aaaaall about heeeeeellp!
what the fuck😮
That’s the date I remember! Thought I’d how to sniff out our parents!
Sniff ya parents fenty
That's so fucked up.
The kids don't know we lived the book "1984" meanwhile everyone who was wealthy was doing everything, selling everything, and now their children own half the US today.
The way you put together something so good with real truth and so impeccable! Thank you for doing what you’re doing!! Every video I have watched I see what you’re doing and it’s great! You care not just there for the views, you want the truth out and it is admired!!
D.A.R.E. was great, they were the first to present me with all of the drug options I had to choose from; along with helpful tips on use. THANKS D.A.R.E.!
DARE kinda messed me up as a kid. My father had been growing his own weed for decades to smoke himself and when i was about 11 or 12 i figured it out. Because DARE and programs like it had gotten so into my head about even how "dangerous" pot was i held some resentment and anger towards my father over it. Even fantasizing sometimes about calling the cops on him when i was mad at him, only to then have a panic attack cause i was worried the cops would then take away our house.
All over some pot he just grew and smoked on his own to relax with after work.
Hey at least you weren't dumb enough to call the cops because you can bet your ass they would have tore your family apart as he went to jail for a long time and would lose custody of his kids almost assuredly.
@@monopomanCounterpoint; what dad would grow weed knowing it could land him in jail and tear the family apart? Some responsibility on his side knowing he is bringing danger to the family would have helped.
Yes, the war on drugs is stupid but its amazing that even pot is making a man willing to risk his life and family. Seems crazy to me.
@@crypto1upteam750 Some parents are kinda dumb but that doesn't mean the kid should call the cops on his dad.
@@monopoman I agree with that dont get me wrong. I just thought it was an odd thing for a dad to do in such an uncertain time with dare trying to make kids snitch you know?
Do you smoke some yourself now lol?
ngl, I *did* watch the full ad cause it was insane. This was a fantastic video with great interviews.
Banger ad haven’t not-skipped an ad in a long time
Our DARE officer (also a local cop) when i was a kid smoked blunts with my friend. My friend was 12.
based
@@JW-hn5nt 🤣🤣
The double standard on safe alcohol consumption and the consumption of any other illegal drug is so mind blowing.
Exactly and alcohol has killed more people in history then any other substance .
It truly is crazy. Ganja helps save ppl, mushrooms too. Alcohol is truly the gateway drug🙄
@@Deadyguerro It's not even wholly about that. Yes alcohol is dangerous, but so are certain other drugs. The hypocrisy lies within the fact that our government and society accept the harms that come from alcohol use and allows adults to choose to consume it, while simultaneously saying that adults can't choose to consume other substances. It's a pure double standard.
Tax money. The state doesn't really care its about money.
its disgusting. boozebags equate their shitpoison to other drugs so they get paranoid about it because their alcoholism makes it so they cant admit to themselves theyre heavy drug users aswell. the guy at 24:07 is definitely one of em, you can see by the color of his skin and his mantits that hes a boozer
Honestly these frequent longer videos are teaching me a lot about your country. It’s complicated and interesting stuff.
America's history is short but extremely fucking complex and chaotic. There are so many different groups of people, ideologies, fundamental beliefs, etc. Not to mention just how much land we have and how distance creates differences.
We're propagandized as fuck so this is literally teaching us Americans too
Just know we Americans are tired of the 2 party system, and are begging for change, but the media likes to pretend like everything is great.
Range Wars are a good one, Wikipedia the Pleasant Valley War
"The Pleasant Valley War gave the Arizona Territory a reputation of not being ready for statehood"
Arizona also executed train robbers.
@eggycat so what have you learned about USA so far?
The editing and message in these docs is so good. Really inspiring, level-headed and non biased but real.
you mean his ad read, right?
It is biased but it’s not in your face. It’s how biased journalism should be. Informative enough for both sides of the argument.
Andrew clearly has a progressive bias in his videos
@elizabethcrocker3966 Docus*, docs means documents not documentaries. We say docu in the industry.
this channel is anything but unbiased... he is simply charitable to the other side, which is a great approach as a journalist.
Thanks for your nuanced views and objective quality journalism.
That has to be one of the first sponsor segments I've watched in years.. absolutely amazing
Haha same I was annoyed I couldn't fast forward the ad but simultaneously so entertained 😂
15 year old student gets caught with drugs, expelled from school, taken to jail, put into the criminal justice system, 18 years later still suffering from the consequences of that and doing manual labor while going to college with kids ten years younger than him. Does that make sense to anyone?
and a child predator would barley even get that much years and probably would get probation instead, just look at Nickelodeon whole industry and more
if you born in an anglo-country you shall believe in freedom, that is all you need.
@@MibbilyStibillies I bet you're so much fun at parties. What a terrible take, like you are the judge of "college worthy". You are an insult to education.
@@MibbilyStibilliesOr maybe, bear with me, their education was interrupted. All these adults around, parents/teachers/etc, and they all failed this child. Instead of teaching this person life skills, they were thrust into jail, for a mistake made as a minor.
How would YOU help them become college material? Clearly you have the answers...
@@seitenryu6844 Yea, that's what they were pretending. But maybe they're just trash
I was there. Frontlines. LAUSD in the 80’s. In 5th grade we had a cop come into class and give a talk. They told us all about drugs and how to use them. It was straight out of Dave Chappell, except it was a cop. That cop taught me everything I needed to know, in 5th grade. Instant curiosity, exactly how Mr. Daddy said it.
2000’s kid here, D.A.R.E. was prevalent throughout my elementary school education with our local PD having D.A.R.E. cars and everything.
oh yeah, i was born in 2001 and one of my first memories was running a DARE funrun when i was 4 or 5
I remember the first year DARE entered our schools in the 90s.
We had a officer come in and they gave us these glasses that "resembled being drunk" and put a piece of tape on the floor and we were supposed to walk the line with the glasses on.
However, when you took the glasses off, youre way far off of the line. It was so fun and made you feel so funny while wearing the glasses.
From that day forward it made me want to try alcohol.
Exactly everyone's take. They tried to bait us all into doing drugs under the guise of g00ft@rdz
Lol we had those in my driving class
@@brand0n. Same here
retro bill has no doubt snorted many many lines with that honker.
That schnoz has land in Columbia
Anyone with that much energy, is a coke head.
@@sqlevolicious in one dojo i trained with, they nicknamed me 'tweak'.. in teen years, people would assume i was on drugs sometimes, and i never was. I was just very healthy & fit 🤷♂️. I later realized that it was only ever the drug users that thought i was the one on a drug.
@@earthworm7346 👀
Retro Bill seems like he enjoys a drug or two
Looks like & seems like
@@akedi2734same thing
@@akedi2734 It also appears that way
100%
That drug is children. If you know what I mean.
Retro Bill...What a Thoughtful, Caring & Passionate Gentleman, which is a somewhat of a rarity in today's world...
Thank you, Retro Bill💯✌❤❗
I am so grateful to your teacher. Thank you and thank you Andrew. You are great.
I'm 29 years old and that is one of the first ads I've ever actively listened to and didn't skip through.
Did you not have Saturday morning cartoons as a kid?
god it works
retro bill almost hypnotized me there for a second with that snappin
Glad im not the only one who noticed.
Yea I noticed that twice
He knows what he is doing. Be careful there are others like him. 😮
@@mantissmith5212 Yup. Evil is all around. Take care and god bless.
@@lotlizard7735what?😂
Prior to the fentanyl crisis, I would have said she's insane for saying people need more access to prescribed opiates. With all the fentanyl nowadays it would actually make sense to help slow the amount of deaths.
Nobody who is addicted to fentanyl is going to buy heroin and pay taxes on it. Once you’re taking fentanyl, heroin is like taking a Tylenol. Plus it’s far more expensive WITHOUT government trying to get a piece. Unfortunately the only solution to the fentanyl crisis is a little more work than that - cheap (free) long term treatment centres, mental health supports… and maybe let’s stop villainizing addicts
@@baddaytraderThis isn't really true. Most heroin/fentanyl addicts would be much happier if they could have easy access to oxycodone or oxymorphone. And I'm telling you this as somebody in rehab right now for heroin and fentanyl.
@@baddaytraderbut otherwise you're totally on the money about the solutions. Decriminalizing drugs isn't going to increase their use, it will just make addicts less likely to become career criminals if they can get their fix without having to lie, cheat, or steal.
i was born in 90. so, i grew up in the dare program. it literally showed you every drug there was and exactly how to use them. triple c cough medicine was found because of dare in my school.
The DARE group from my middle school brought people in ever semester that where former drug users, showed videos and pictures of drug use. They also brought it alcoholics, showed videos and pictures of drunk driving accidents, brought in 16-17 year old moms to talk about sex and the importance of using condoms. This was in Missouri around 1999.
@@Cablev94 Also grew up in the 90s. DARE was all about people who failed at having fun the right way at my school too.
Dare taught me in 5th grade that every single drug involved needles. It was just a series of posters of needles, spoons, and necrotic arms. The first time I got accurate information about drugs was when I met people who used them, and I finally learned that you don't shoot up weed. The minute kids find out they were being lied to and pandered to, they'll throw everything they've been taught right out the window. It's the opposite of progress.
Im glad you did this video like this. You made the whole thing based around the program and its real effects on the world but instead of doubling up on your side, like having half the episode with the protestor or similar interviewees and you took the place of countering the arguments from the Dare side. This is (almost) perfect reporting man letting both sides make their opinions know and let the VIEWER, not the Network/Host, make the decision of whats right and wrong left and right. Good video Andrew. Youre gonna go far. I was an opiate and fentanyl addict for over a decade and been using drugs like you when i was very young. But im sober except for weed! Very lucky to still be here...
Im high & drunk watching this. Thanks D.A.R.E.
Cheers to that! 🍻💨
Common D.A.R.E. W
Fat dabs for Bill🫡
Same
Blunts for Bill.
I like your point that everyone talks about drugs as a mental health problem. I think having a drug problem is a health concern. That does not necessarily mean using drugs is a concern on it's own, but becomes one when it interferes with your ability to live a fulfilling life and have healthy relationships.
That incogni ad was amazing.
so it did click for u?
Sounds like you're way too receptive to advertising. What a weird thing to say.
that snapping at the end, felt like a sleeper activation sequence
straight up tea cup moment from Get out. I thought he was trying to hypnotize us or something.
I'm pretty sure it's a poetry jam thing if you watch that they loved to snap.
I remember I won my school's DARE essay contest and ended up a meth addict at 22. In recovery now, but DARE really don't know a thing about the science behind addiction
Would you rewrite the essay ?
there’s something poetic about that. similar to smart gifted gets ending up as burnouts lol
@@osmo1205 I think I'd have a much more interesting essay today 😂 that's for sure
I won the essay crap. Read it in front of the whole school. Lol, I'm smoking weed, right now as I type
AYEEEEEE ME TOO!!! heroin tho. shoutout d.a.r.e. still have the d.a.r.e. award thing at my dads house 💀
Great video, only issue was at 20:38 The way you framed that lead up it seemed like you wanted to imply that kid in the clip was getting arrested for a minor drug possession. That person is Martrez Antonio Barnes, they were arrested for sneaking a firearm onto school grounds. Not drug possession. Appreciate the videos!
genuinely one of the best videos i have watched. thank u andrew for bringing life back to the journalism side of youtube
Very fresh perspective. Love the way you show both sides and try to find middle ground.
This video is genuinely eye opening and I appreciate both the coverage and quality put into these films.
I read courage..and re-read it, cause that is what's needed for this type of real journalism to exist
what was eye opening about this exactly?
@@beansdestroyerWhy do you need specifics? If you already knew everything about the content presented in the video, cool. OP seems to have had a different life experience and maybe they're learning about this stuff for the first time. There's nothing wrong with that, and it is worth praising the channel that is reaching a new audience.
Retro Bill is legit. What he's doing makes my heart warm.
-How should we prevent children from doing drugs?
-Let's do presentations in 95% of schools telling children about drugs they possibly don't even know exist yet
harm reduction is good though, would u say sex education shouldn't be done either?
@@Robzabest25good point here brother
And instead of telling them the actual dangers, let's pretend like weed is basically fentanyl while alcohol is being legally advertised on television. Then all their bs detectors will go off, turning them against us, thereby causing them to actively seek out these drugs. Let's also make sure that drug use is illegal and villified, so addicts will not seek out help and be more likely to remain addicted
@@tmsplltrs exactly. all this effort to enforce Nixon's literally racist drug laws meant to target the anti war left by his own admission.
@Robzabest25 absolutely. as with drugs this should whiegh onto parenting. not some creepy gym teacher
That “WOCKYYYY SLUSHHH” took me out lol
Time stamp?
Nvm it happened like 2 seconds after I posted that lmaooo
@@asiangin timestamp?
@@asiangin DUDE YOURE NOT GONNA BELIEVE THIS
Time stamp?
Opioid clean for 5 years and this programs made me interested in drugs as they gave me a whole catalog of them and how they work I remember it said pcp makes you see things that are not there and that blew my mind and made me consider it when I never would have
Huge props to Retro Bill, dude is not a character, thats him and I can respect that.
Watching this from Sydney, Australia at 5:30am. WOOHOO!
Parents must be proud.
Watching this from Prague at 21:34 WOOHOO
Holy cow man I’m watching this from Newcastle Aus at 5:38am!
Watching from Saigon at 2:38am wooo
Watching this from Haapajärvi, Finland at 22:41pm. ZZZzzz 😴
Dude is hands down the best journalist of this century.
Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi exist but I guess one has to make meme-worthy videos on TH-cam, rather than serious journalism, to make your list? I'll gladly have Andrew on my top 5 or 10 but he's not the best journalist of the century by a mile - or even the best journalist alive.
In all likelihood, he's just the only great journalist you know of, because he's on TH-cam and you don't read Substack, right? Doesn't make him the best rather than it makes you someone who just doesn't know a lot about great journalism. Apologies if my assumptions are wrong.
Wtf??? There are journalists out there risking their lives and freedom...I mean I like these videos but come on man
@@tukkek bro mentioned 2 talentless hacks trying to say they’re better than andrew 😭
I think Julian assange and Edward Snowden might have him beat LOL
@@tukkekGlenn and Matt are probably the most useless “reporters” you could choose.
Retro Bill basically invented the TikTok format before short format existed.
True innovator. See what being straight edge can do for ya
The grandfather of overstimulation
😂😂😂😂 15 second tv commercials did -- lolol
Dude is anti-drug Cocomelon
I don't know who came first but Bill Nye basically did the same thing.
As I am writing this, 1.9 million views, 52,000 likes. You're making an impact! Happy to support you and your endeavors.
I had teachers reach out to me throughout school. I was bullied for being different and for being mixed. Not white enough for the white kids, not black enough for the black kids. I was also sorta adopted by my step dad's parents. I never ever felt like I belonged anywhere. But those few teachers that really reached into me and made me feel safe, made me feel heard, let me be me, they changed my life. My grand parents also let me be the weirdo I am. Never once told me to be anything that I'm not. Constantly encouraged me to be me and try and learn new things. I couldn't be more thankful for those who have impacted me.
Yeah, I'm mixed too. Nobody loved me, and I've been to prison. Shit sucks. Glad somebody was nice to you. I wish the same for most kids that don't fit because I didn't. Everyone hated me, from home to school and in between.
from honor roll to cracking locks up off them bicycle racks
Hope you never need a bone marrow transplant. *Keep in mind there is not a single human species.* There is a really strong reason they want to stamp out racism except against whites and not jews. Keep it in mind my hybrid frens.
earl?
I am now going to start finding things I have in common with people I disagree with as well. Keep walking that middle path. Thanks for the inspiration!
Andrew is an avowed leftist.
@@adamplentl5588what has that to do with anything
@twotatanka5396 he is absolutely a leftist. He's a anarchist. That's about as left as you can get.
seems like Channel 5 is more focused on letting the content speak for itself and not really challenging it. ultimately it’s up to you to decide what you disagree and agree with
@@adamplentl5588 yeh he's a leftie for sure lol but who cares? People are allowed to have opinions you know. Calling him a 'avowed leftist' is definitely a reach.
1:06 He looks EXACTLY like the mayor from Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, albeit slimmer.
Huh, he also really does look like Elvis.
What a funny guy.
Retro BILL is going to come steal your PILLS 😢
That's exactly what I thought when I saw him too lmao
I was wondering why he looked familiar
Dead on haha