During the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, the Army administered drug and HIV tests. The Army should be doing that again. People with drug histories should be barred from enlisting or staying.
But some of the trash is being taken out. That’s a good thing. Eventually, enough straight people will be fed up enough to demand a real war on drugs instead of a stupid metaphor that never really happened.
The Army never stopped on drug/Hiv tests.
What you have, without a lot of drama or hype by the Pentagon...is a recruitment agenda where they’ve brought in ‘kids’ in the past five years who were recreational drug users in high school (Percocet, fentanyl, etc).
The drug test is geared toward x-number (not a complete listing), so as long as you didn’t smoke Cannabis or do Heroin, you likely pass the test.
Because of recruitment issues presently, they will continue to find these recreational users and x-number will expire each year in the barracks or in some car. It’s not a military problem....it’s a national ‘anyone’ problem, and we just all looked the other way in accepting it.