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Originally Posted by Ustwo
No one owes you a job, and the drugs are illegal.
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Private industry is a piss-poor law enforcer, and shouldn't try to be one beyond obeying the laws that cover their own fields of business -- not that corporations don't break plenty of laws themselves, _all the time._ And some of the top bananas use the same illegal substances as the guys in the stockroom. Believe me, been there. Seen EVPs snorting the white stuff, and more. ON the job.
Whether drugs are illegal or not is not the issue. Whether corporate testing is _appropriate_ or not in a civil society is something else. I find it all laughable. Hell, I remember when it was fairly common to have to get a physical when joining a company. I haven't had a company physical in 25 years, and nobody's asking me to submit to a TB test or a hep test to avoid endangering my fellow employees.
The law is the law until it is ridiculous and flouted. When too many people flout the law, it's time to change the law, not the people. Or risk that all laws lose potency in the eyes of the people.