And now we see one of the primary drivers of the continuing war on drugs (marijuana) and that is the testing industry. Before they closed it to lay folk, I used to frequent a drug testing forum where "professionals" from many different companies got together and talked about the problems they had testing folks.
What I came away with is the understanding that they LOVE marijuana testing because it is money in their pockets for easy work - there is hundreds of millions in testing for marijuana alone.
One conversation I recall was particularly repugnant. A "professional" was asking how he might get a "sample" from a quadrapalegic "subject" that had nervous bladder syndrome. And these people somehow believed they were "the good guys" striking out against all of the evil drug users where ever they were found, while jacking up the urine of some poor guy who was industrious enough to find a job using a mouth stick and gumption but some crap head testing "professional" encouraged the HR department to make no exceptions - after all, drug users are all liars.
So far as jobs are concerned, I am torn, it is within the perview of the employer to ask for quite a bit, but the problem comes when the employee asks for compensation - oh, like maybe some employer loyalty,instead of seeing his employees as interchangable and disposable. Were there to be more of that sort of attitude, I wouldn't be so disgusted with employers in general demanding piss tests not for THC active within the body but for tests for metabolites that are evidence only that the person smoked or was around a smoker some time in the past, likely not anywhere near work.
Tesing drivers or pilots? So the pilot doesn't test positive for alcohol but he gets in the cockpit after having only two hours sleep - but that's ok right? cause - he ISN'T USING DRUGS!!!
Sometimes the mentality that surrounds us is stunning in its idiocy.
