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To: ninenot
The 'presumption of innocence' (even though this is a license matter, not a criminal matter) didn't seem to enter her alleged thought-train.

Get real. A person on drugs is unfit to be driving and endangers everyone - just like a person whose eyesight is poor or a person with uncontrollable epilepsy.

33 posted on 10/31/2002 5:59:01 AM PST by yendu bwam
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To: yendu bwam
The 'presumption of innocence' (even though this is a license matter, not a criminal matter) didn't seem to enter her alleged thought-train.

Get real. A person on drugs is unfit to be driving and endangers everyone - just like a person whose eyesight is poor or a person with uncontrollable epilepsy.

This "libertarian" arguement is so transparent as to be absurd.

When fiscal conservatism collides with habitual drug use, you get a libertarian. "Just leave me alone so I can get high." Pathetic really.

Since drug use is illegal, especially for minors, this seems to be a reasonable step to help kids be drug free. Teenagers need to learn that there a consequences for their actions and I'd rather not have the consequences be traffic deaths due to driving while intoxicated.

47 posted on 10/31/2002 6:15:50 AM PST by Crusher138
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To: yendu bwam
Get real. A person on drugs is unfit to be driving and endangers everyone -

So are you saying I shouldn't have been allowed to get a drivers license because I drank alcohol a week before my driving test. Pot can show up in a test a month after someone smokes it but they aren't still high.

Be the way, I was 23 when I got my license so it was legal for me to drink.

51 posted on 10/31/2002 6:22:10 AM PST by muggs
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To: yendu bwam
Get real. A person on drugs is unfit to be driving and endangers everyone - just like a person whose eyesight is poor or a person with uncontrollable epilepsy.

Oh, BS. You don't know what you're talking about.

It is perfectly possible to smoke a joint or two on a Friday night and to drive to work safely on the following Monday morning. You would fail the drug test though.

She's just another Nazi dressed up as a Republican.

56 posted on 10/31/2002 6:29:55 AM PST by The Other Harry
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To: yendu bwam
A person on drugs is unfit to be driving and endangers everyone
125 posted on 10/31/2002 7:31:46 AM PST by kcvl
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To: yendu bwam
Excuse me, YB. A "drug screening" to obtain a LICENSE is not the same as a "Drug Screening" at the time one enters a car to drive it.

Seems to me that trace maryjane can be found in a hell of a lot of people, MOST of them over the age of 21. (Trust me, I am not one of them...)

So should LizzyDole screen EVERYONE?

By the way: why is this a Federal issue? States issue drivers' licenses, don't they?
226 posted on 10/31/2002 9:16:09 AM PST by ninenot
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