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To: Nachum
Most jobs now require a drug test. Did you think about that Mr. President before telling our kids it ok to get high?
10 posted on 01/21/2014 10:38:19 AM PST by McGruff (How's that Hopey Changey Thingy workin out for ya?)
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To: McGruff
Most jobs now require a drug test. Did you think about that Mr. President before telling our kids it ok to get high?

Really? Most jobs? Things must have really gone downhill in the U.S. since I left for Germany (where I have never heard any of my colleagues or acquaintances mention such testing).

Requiring invasive medical procedures (blood samples, hair samples, etc.) or humiliating ones (urine samples) as a precondition for employment is an ethically quite troubling issue. With the exception of airplane pilots and such, I (personally) would lean towards banning any such requirements. Then there is also the secondary issue of data security and confidentiality (what other values - besides my degree of sobriety - are being measured, stored, and/or distributed, and for how long?).

I suspect that I would fail a standard test for opiates in the blood, since I eat a whopping slice of Schmandkuchen mit Mohn every day. I guess the solution would be to illegalize those, too.

Regards,

16 posted on 01/21/2014 11:05:07 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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