Reply #37: that would be all well and good [View All]

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If those jobs actually screened their employees. But the truth is most important jobs don't drug test. They assume that any 'junkies' would have been weeded out before making that far. Instead drug tests are usually perform only on the people most likely to fail, and in positions that it's least necessary to have a 'straight edged' person. So far I've worked in IT dealing with millions of dollars worth of equipment and information, for the Federal government handling tons of sensitive information, in a very successful law firm, and as a cart pusher at a grocery store and pizza delivery person. (Last two were high school and college jobs) And guess where I get drug tested at. At mutherfucking Sack and Save! And I know what you're saying, pushing carts requires a clear alert mind, but from experience I can tell you, you don't even know.

Drug testing is nothing more than another way to keep those most likely to be users (read poor minorities) right where they are, at the bottom. It's the same reason drugs are illegal in the first place.