Those "caught" by the drug testing should get access to programs for detoxification and counseling. So I agree with that aspect of the article.
I agree that state money should not be spent on drugs; but this doesn't mean we let people destroy themselves and their communities. The money, in this case, should be spent on fixing the problem.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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