Straight Up – Episode 2 / Attitudes and Perceptions / Lou Gossett, Jr. / Anti-Drug Educational Video
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Department of Education. Straight Up: Episode 2: Attitudes and Perceptions. Academy award winning actor Lou Gossett, Jr. and young TV star Chad Allen (NBC’s Our House) appear in this story about a boy named Ben who faces peer pressure to use alcohol and drugs. During Ben’s struggle to resist drugs, he meets Cosmo, played by Lou. Producer: Department of Education. Creative Commons license: Public Domain Drugs are chemicals that change the way a person’s body works. You’ve probably heard that drugs are bad for you, but what does that mean and why are they bad? Medicines Are Legal Drugs If you’ve ever been sick and had to take medicine, you already know about one kind of drugs. Medicines are legal drugs, meaning doctors are allowed to prescribe them for patients, stores can sell them, and people are allowed to buy them. But it’s not legal, or safe, for people to use these medicines any way they want or to buy them from people who are selling them illegally. Cigarettes and Alcohol Cigarettes and alcohol are two other kinds of legal drugs. (In the United States, adults 18 and over can buy cigarettes and those 21 and over can buy alcohol.) But smoking and excessive drinking are not healthy for adults and off limits for kids. Illegal Drugs When people talk about the “drug problem,” they usually mean abusing legal drugs or using illegal drugs, such as marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine, LSD, crystal meth and heroin. (Marijuana is generally an illegal drug, but some states allow doctors …
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for amoment i thought it was the 1990s cbc straight up about agroup of kid news reporters hope too see that on youtube someday.
Mario Lopez is at the bar. Slamming heroin is cool, but smoking cigarettes is really bad for you.
I’ve never seen such a racially diverse group of cool kids.
Where is the staff at that store? and why the hell would any kid try to get drunk in a video store anyway?
Wow this brings back some memories! I saw this is school too! I think it’s even more fun to watch today that it was back in the day! Gawd i miss old school vhs stores! And i still say the elevator song is like the cathest damn song ever! It’s been suck in my head for years! XD
Watched this in 2nd grade like 20 freaking years ago. Everyone in class loved it. This shit is still hilarious and fun to watch.
This is my favorite chapter. “Reservation for One” is the best song… I think it’s the only villian song that has an actual melody.
Also, the costumes are amazingggg. (Unfortunately, the costume department neglected to give that jogging woman a bra. Yikes!) Props to the make-up department as well, who decided that when you look through the magic glasses, drug-addicts look DUSTY.
This chapter also features the bad kids being SO BAD IN A PUBLIC VIDEO STORE!!! Those kids have BALLS!
