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It's Time to End All Drug Testing
As the reality of legalized marijuana inches closer and closer every day, more and more Americans are rethinking our society's attitude towards drugs. But not the American Society of Addiction Medicine. In a recent white paper, the organization argued that we should start expanding drug testing at schools and in the workplace.
As that paper's author put it, "The major need today is the wider and smarter use of the currently available drug testing technologies and practices.... Smarter drug testing means increased use of random testing rather than the more common scheduled testing, and it means testing not only urine but also other matrices such as blood, oral fluid (saliva), hair, nails, sweat and breath."
I couldn't disagree more. Drug testing is counterproductive, degrading, and invasive, and it's we put an end to it once and for all. Although humans have used narcotics and intoxicants since the dawn of time, drug testing as know it is a relatively new phenomenon, and really took off with Nixon's War on Drugs.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... What we should learn from Chile (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
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Green report: Antioch College to run on green energy- Mark Roosevelt, Antioch College.
Screwed: Benton Habor...emergency over?!- Pastor D. Alexander Bullock, Change Agent Consortium (ActionCAC)
Daily Take: Time to end ALL drug testing
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Flight 370...why the right hopes it's terror- Gavin McInnes, The Death of Cool
The Big Picture- Nate Sweet, The Big Picture producer
Hour Two: 3 years later, the lessons of Fukushima are worse than ever- Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear Movie: " Dreams" (Akira Kurosawa's Dreams).
Hour Three: Rick Perry killed an innocent man... Quote: "This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper" - The Hollow Men" by T S Eliot. |
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