I’m just curious if your position applies to government required drug tests only, or if it applies to private entities requiring a drug test for employment?
For the record, I tend to agree on the government front.
But I think that private entities should be allowed to require drug tests for the purposes of employment. That is especially true for jobs that can endanger other individuals. I suspect at some point drug testing will fall be considered discrimination, since we are heading that way for things like educational history.
Ni I disagree with ALL DRUG TESTING for private employers, They do not own me and have absolutely no right whatsoever to have any say in my private life. While on the Job maybe, but that is not how drug tests work. So either ban all of them or require ALL PUBLIC SERVANTS, PUBLIC EMPLOYEES, OFFICERS OF THE COURT, AND EVERY PERSON RECEIVING TAXPAYER FUNDS OF ANY KIND INCLUDING RETIREMENT BENEFITS AND CONTRACT PAYMENTS to take Mandatory Drug Tests every 3 days where ALL RESULTS ARE PUBLIC RECORDS, I would also include Performance Enhancing Drugs (steroids) with the penalty for a positive test, MANDATORY MINIMUM of 10 Years in Prison and complete civil asset forfeiture. Then I will consider the option of Private Employers requiring drug testing. I would like to add that you will not find executives of companies or lawyers taking drug tests in the business they work at, while the regular employees are required to. Until then it is all meaningless fluff.