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How can Johnny put in a full week's work to pay for his drugs if he is DRUNK? How can he then be an employable, productive worker?

Shouldn't businesses have the right to have non-drug addicted and non-alcoholic employees if they wish? I could almost see legalizing drugs if abusers couldn't get free medical care, food stamps, housing, disability pay, SSI or workplace protections. So many drug users want the government out of their lives until they run into problems because of their drug use, then they want the government back in their lives --providing a living for their families, giving them rehab, emergency care for their overdoses and whatever else.

How can Johnny put in a full week's work to pay for his drugs if he is DRUNK? How can he then be an employable, productive worker?

Shouldn't businesses have the right to have non-drug addicted and non-alcoholic employees if they wish?

Yes, but a general ban on alcohol or other drugs is not needed to recognize that right.

I could almost see legalizing drugs if abusers couldn't get free medical care, food stamps, housing, disability pay, SSI or workplace protections.

Using one violation of rights (taxpayer-funded health care) as an excuse for another violation of rights (the War On Some Drugs) is not a conservative argument. Should we ban alcohol because abusers can get free medical care, food stamps, housing, disability pay, SSI or workplace protections?

--providing a living for their families, giving them rehab, emergency care for their overdoses and whatever else.

Why would they do that for drug addicts when they don't for alcoholics? When my Husband's alocholism escalated to the point where he had 3 DUI's on his driving record and became a felon, no one was there to help us avoid forclosure on our home, pay legal fees and fines, pay for rehab or help feed our kids... except our church who helped me with the light bill and food while he was in jail and rehab. Every urine test (for an alcoholic..go figure) we paid for, every visit to the court referral officer we paid for, every visit to the probation officer we still pay for. So if he was arrested for a drug related crime Uncle Sam would have paid for all of that???

He's coming up on 3 years sober & we survived without a single government hand-out. Owning up to ones responsibilities is a key step in sobriety and any right living whether your drug of choice is legal, taxed, and commonly used & abused or not.