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Originally Posted by n0nsensical
Unless you're an EMT or an airplane pilot, it's really none of your employer's god damned business what you put in your body. It's a complete invasion of personal privacy and it's a shame so many people are willing to submit to it. The mere suggestion would be such an insult to me, I'd tell them where to put their job.
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I don't agree with that at all. What about a surgeon? Bus or truck driver? What about a person who works in an industrial situation where a mistake could cost lives? Heck what about the person directing traffic in a construction zone? I can think of a lot places where'd I'd want to be pretty damn certain the person doing the job wasn't on drugs.
All that said I think the whole damn war on drugs is a scam. A scam designed to bilk the tax payers out of billions of dollars each year. When the US did their little anti-alcohol experiment back in the early 20th century it didn't keep people from drinking. It did lead to massive organized crime and corruption. I see the problems Al Capone posed to be pretty much the same thing as the current batch of drug cartels and gangs. Same problem, same solution in my opinion.
I say save me my tax dollars and end this silly, indefinite, so called, "war on drug." The only folks benefiting from the war on drugs are the people fighting it, the police agencies get extra funding to fight it and the dealers make a shit load of tax free cash while they fight the cops to sell their products. Just look at the number of people in the US prison system that are there for growing and or using pot. Give me a break, send those folks back to their families and put an end to this insanity. Everyone else pays both parties one way or another, either through taxes and/or buying the substances. I say legalize pretty much everything, certainly pot. Tax it and control it just like alcohol. You want to smoke a bowl? Knock yourself out. Care to do a few lines of coke off your spouses right butt check? By all means, enjoy. Hell, do it off the left one if you like. Where I'd draw the line is if you show up to work incapable of doing your job due to substance abuse you should expect to have consequences. Just like we do now with alcohol. Right now judges, cops, airline pilots- anyone really can go out and get completely hammered if they care to, as long as they take a taxi home and show up to work sober they're fine. This smoke a bowl on the weekend and you're fired is asinine. Really why are we saying you can alter your mind with this substance but not that substance?