The actual literal Scared Straight program in prisons has been statistically demonstrated to increase the level of recidivism among the youths they use it on https://twitter.com/hodaddypan/status/1231743410714947584 …
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It's actually one of the clearest social science results re: crime and punishment in historypic.twitter.com/cl5BBqFoao
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You could argue about why - maybe it's that the program romanticizes crime more than it really deters it, maybe it's that the program is obviously manipulative and fake and that undermines the message Mainly I just think demonstrates traumatizing people is a bad idea
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It lumps marijuana with other drugs just to traumatize you. But the effects are temporary. "I don't want to be like a sad, horribly diseased guy from the video." you say to yourself.Then you actually find out that one of your friends is smoking marijuana with no negative effects.
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Yeah it's like why DARE didn't work
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