> The war on drugs made an para militairy policeforce possible with a
> no-knock policy.. Effectively
undermining/nullifying the 4th amendment.
Let's not forget one minor detail. The CIA is one of the biggest
drug
pushers on the planet. If drugs are criminalized, then you create a black
market. Black markets drive
up prices. The CIA makes MORE money selling
dope, arresting users, confiscating their dope, reselling, reconfiscating,
rearresting,
etc... If everybody were free to grow their own pot, it would
be worthless, and you could use it in the most efficient,
cost-effective,
healthiest manner. Ingestion.
On drug testing, back in the 80s, when Elisabeth Dole was head of
the DOT,
she pushed for truck drivers to be randomly tested for using drugs. She
said that good parents would
want their children to be safe from coked up
truckers on the interstate. We allowed that to come to be, and then
the
flood gates opened. They're testing people who answer phones for
transportation companies. They're testing
janitors at high schools. They
want to test kids in junior high and high school who want to participate in
any
extra-curricular activities. That's a good idea. If a kid's using
drugs, and needs some help getting his life
together, push him away, and
force him out of school. Maybe, he'll not even come back to class if we're
lucky!
Keep an eye on him, though, because he's sure to show up in the back
seat of a police car at some point, and then, we can
say, "HA! I told you
so!
Any business is able to drug test any employee at any time for any reason
(if any
at all). Where they get away with it is that if you fail, you won't
be criminally prosecuted. But your failure
of a drug test, legitimately or
false positive, will show up if you ever apply for a DOT, or other networked
job.
Drug testing, admitted by testing companies, is only 98% effective.
That sounds pretty high, doesn't it? But if you
consider that 500,000 drug
tests (a conservative estimate on my part) are administered a day, then
10,000 people lose
their jobs daily to a false positive. But, if you listen
to proponents of the drug war, they consider that to be
an adequate price to
pay to make our streets safe from drugs. If you do fail, and apply for
another job, the prospective
employer is sure to ask why you left/lost your
job. If you answer untruthfully, you risk losing that job in the future
for
not telling them the truth. Drug testing is an obvious example of the
desperation the U.S. government's losing
effort in the drug war. Check out
http://www.copvcia.com . Before reading much of Mr. Ruppert's writings, I
was optimistic that I may see the legalization of drugs
in my lifetime. But
to see how much government profits from the sale of drugs and the
enforcement of the laws
pertaining to drugs, my outlook on drug reform has
become quite pessimistic. It's an astoundingly wonderful and plausible
idea,
but it will, unfortunately, never happen. If they won't let AIDS, MS,
or cancer patients use it, what makes you think
they'll consider
recreational use? I, personally, had to quit smoking pot. I am a parent
now, and can't
run the risk of flunking a drug test. I really miss it,
though.
