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To: varyouga

Of course, what you’re saying is completely false. They have expanded panels, and there are states that publish opioid use.

DOT testing now includes the designer drugs, and since they started drug testing truck accidents are way down.

I’m seeing the most abuse with the legal prescribed opioids.

Cocaine use, is associated with annual costs to employers on average of over $24,000, probably higher, as that’s an old number. theft, injures, loss time, absenteeism, etc.

Marijuana in the end will add additional burden on our society, as did smoking.

Baby boomers grew up with these drugs, and with mood altering pills. And when you have politicians on the drugs, they’re legalized.

Marijuana may not be as bad coke and meth, but it’s not going to result in a positive effect on our country.


66 posted on 01/04/2019 11:45:18 AM PST by nikos1121 (The Patriot is a scarce man. The timid join him only when his cause succeeds, Mark Twain)
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To: nikos1121

Every drug except cannabis is flushed from the system as fast as alcohol. If someone is being tested they simply wait or say they cannot urinate that moment.

There is no panel that includes the millions of possible designer drugs and all the new ones that are being made every month. If someone is randomly tested, they can simply use these more dangerous designer drugs instead of the safer known ones.

There is no test for people who abuse various legal Rx and OTC drugs. I.e. if you abuse cough syrup or sleep meds it will not come up on a test. There is no test for people who sleep poorly or work too many hours.

Working too hard and being sleepy if far more impairing than cannabis yet nobody is screaming to test or outlaw commuting for late shifts.


75 posted on 01/04/2019 12:03:29 PM PST by varyouga
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