Reply #15: Exactly. [View All]

[RandomKoolzip]

Plus, why would a drug test determine competence? If you're not under the influence of weed when you're actually flying the plane, but occasionally like to smoke some on your day off, why should that keep you from being a pilot? I've never really understood that.

Also, these tests they usually give are almost uniformly in place to check for marijuana usage. Pot stays in your fat cells longer than just about any drug, but it's probably the most benign illegal drug there is.

I've just never gotten the logic behind drug testing.

The other day, Ipassed by the Home Depot in Chicago where there's a big "Help Wanted" sign, but an even larger "WE TEST FOR DRUGS!" sign underneath, with a helpful "If you do drugs, don't even THINk about applying here!" in bold letters. Okay, first of all: if your occasional smoking of a joint after work somehow makes you unable to perform your paint-color-selecting duties or cashier duties at Home Depot when you're sober and at work, then you are most likely learning-disabled. Second, what about nicotene? Alcohol? Aren't THOSe drugs too? What if some lumber-totin' dumbass is having a nic-fit while stocking plywood and gets so squirrely he drops a load of wood on some customer's head? Well, as long as he's not smoking pot, I guess it's cool.

Again, these are the little signs of fascism we need to look out for.