Where The Hell are Their Drug Tests?

In the United States of America business of all types are rewarded for drug testing their employees. This practice, started by the Federal Government in their “War on Drugs” was created by politicians, judges, lawyers and lobbyists, all of whom work in fields where drug testing is not really practiced.

So it is fair to drug test the factory worker in order to insure he or she can snap together two pieces of plastic, but not the judge who may hold the life of another individual in their very hands.

How about politicians, all of them, even the Mayor’s of our cities and towns? These are the people who profess to be the leaders of our community, but yet they do not have to submit to the same scrutiny their community is subjected to.

Lawyers would be a great profession to invoke wide spread drug testing in for sure. Certainly not being able to do drugs would take the fun right out of that profession. The fact remains however that the large majority of those who make anti-drug laws, as well as many who enforce them, do not have to worry about following them.

I personally have no opinion for or against most drugs, but am sure that if there are rules made that everyone has to follow, EVERYONE should have to follow them. I can tell you I would be more comfortable with the thought of a stoned stock boy, than a stoned doctor.  The medical profession also does not invoke serious widespread drug testing. We even need to include psychiatrists, social workers and other people in such positions unless of course we just do away with them all together.

Of course to get laws made that would insure that those who make the rules have to follow them as well, would mean of course convincing them to hold themselves accountable. I am sure they will get right on that. In the meantime we fill up prisons with non violent every day normal people who were selling  pot, many of whom were convicted shortly after the prosecution and the defense attorney did a big fat line in the judge’s chambers while they sealed the deal on a plea agreement.

Maybe someday our governmental establishment will lighten up, but I don’t perceive it will happen any time soon and they certainly are not in any hurry to regulate themselves.  In the meantime I will stick to working where the will and desire of others does not have to be my will and desire as well. Personally I am in favor of doing away with drug testing all together. In the first place it is a completely unfair practice as you can get stoned on a Friday night and still test positive on Monday morning, even though you are totally sober and completely competent to do your job.

But yet the supposed purpose of drug testing in the first place is to ensure that drugs are not being used in the workplace, and how is this being done with a drug test?  Of course if we did away with drug testing, prohibition and the stupid yet outrageously costly war on drugs, all those fine folks at the DEA along with all the other jobs connected to the war on drugs would be lost.

I guess it is better to insure the jobs of those few, by taking jobs away from countless millions. Not to mention we incarcerate those who sell and sometimes use pot, so some agent can get stupid drunk at the bar then go home to beat his wife. That of course is fine as Alcohol is a legal drug, and honestly not a very good one. I won’t even get into pot verses booze in this article there is just not enough time but we all know it is safer to smoke and fly than drink and drive.