Comments on: “Urine or You’re Out” Program is a Good Idea http://www.ponderstorm.com/2009/10/12/urine-or-youre-out-program-is-a-good-idea/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=urine-or-youre-out-program-is-a-good-idea My Brainstorm on Life & Politics Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:46:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Robert http://www.ponderstorm.com/2009/10/12/urine-or-youre-out-program-is-a-good-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-6876 Robert Mon, 17 May 2010 02:23:47 +0000 http://www.ponderstorm.com/?p=186#comment-6876 i say we do away with drug testing altogether. let hard working, American potheads and other American "recreational" drug users (not abusers) get back to work. urine testing does not test impairment or job performance and targets marijuana smokers over harder drug users. example: Alcohol: 6–24 hours MDMA (Ecstasy): 24 hours Barbiturates (except phenobarbital): 1 day Cocaine: 2 to 5 days with exceptions Cannabis: up to 30 days after heavy use [daily use to the weekend warrior] and/or in users with high body fat. additionally, what happened to innocent until proven guilty? what about YOUR privacy? "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power." - P. J. O'Rourke "Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." - Abraham Lincoln: Speech in the Illinois House of Representatives, Dec 18, 1840. i say we do away with drug testing altogether. let hard working, American potheads and other American “recreational” drug users (not abusers) get back to work. urine testing does not test impairment or job performance and targets marijuana smokers over harder drug users.

example:
Alcohol: 6–24 hours
MDMA (Ecstasy): 24 hours
Barbiturates (except phenobarbital): 1 day
Cocaine: 2 to 5 days with exceptions
Cannabis: up to 30 days after heavy use [daily use to the weekend warrior] and/or in users with high body fat.

additionally, what happened to innocent until proven guilty? what about YOUR privacy?

“No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.” – P. J. O’Rourke

“Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man’s appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.”
- Abraham Lincoln: Speech in the Illinois House of Representatives, Dec 18, 1840.

]]> By: Matt http://www.ponderstorm.com/2009/10/12/urine-or-youre-out-program-is-a-good-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-4095 Matt Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:06:51 +0000 http://www.ponderstorm.com/?p=186#comment-4095 Great plan - wasn't that David Vitter's (LA)idea as well? Great plan – wasn’t that David Vitter’s (LA)idea as well?

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