Dole Links License To Drug Test

Charlotte Observer ^ | October 30, 2002 | Mark Johnson

[yendu bwam]

Here's another thought, SkyRat. We routinely insist on testing airline pilots for drugs before they're allowed to fly. Unconstitutional? Invasive? Taking away the rights of airline pilots?

[SkyRat]

It will force kids who want drivers licenses to get off of drugs.

Naive thought at best. Could you name the drugs that are actually visible in a screening? Practical all drugs will leave no trace in the body after 24hrs. So it will take the kids to get of drugs for a day or so. Great.

Even more importantly, it will show kids semi-addicted to drugs that they can get off of them

How so?

Evem more importantly, it will show kids that we have certain expectations about right behavior before getting the coveted drivers license.

It will show those kids who have never taken any drugs that they are subject to search by government at any time. They will learn the lesson that they are guilty until they are proven innocent. Great.

Finally, some deaths and mutilations from car crashes from kids on drugs will be averted.

The idea that kids wont take drugs because of this little test is almost as idiotic as the idea that kids wont get drugs because of the WOD.

It comes from people voting democratically for representatives who pass it into law, providing that such in not unconstitutional - just like every other law in this nation. Given that it's not unconsitutional (it isn't, according to the Supreme court)

Cite? (And please don't expect me to search for your information)

where does a teen have the right not to have a drug screening?

I told you. Of course, we already agreed to disagree. I happen to think the rights of an Individual come first, where you grand the society more power. You are in favor of the WOD and for mandatory testing of teenagers. You want a big, intrusive goverment. You get what you want.

Charles Evans Hughes, Justice of the supreme Court (1907): "... the Constitution is what the judges say it is."

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
John Adams

[Eva]

No the states would not have to do the testing themselves, as this article implies. The kids could just bring test results from their own physician or laboratory.