Pisstasting Busybodies

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Save us from the busybodies
In Williamsburg, Vermont, a random drug testing proposal had almost been passed by the school board and was held up when it was discovered that some people opposed the idea. So they had a spirited discussion from people on both sides of the issue, and came up with a compromise. School sponsored voluntary drug testing (parents could sign up for it). Now, to me, it's still a waste of school funds that could be used in much better ways, and I feel sorry for the kids whose parents fall for it, but still, it's a compromise that should please those who want testing, right?

Wrong. Those supporting random testing for all students were outraged at the compromise.

Proponent Ginger Crapse promised after the meeting to begin a petition drive to make the two School Board representatives from Williamsburg into elected positions, instead of appointed posts.

And this gets to the heart of it. They don't want to drug test their kids. They want to drug test your kids. And they don't want you to have any say in the matter.

If crime labs can't be trusted for accuracy and have no Federal standards or oversight. How much less accurate are generic labs popping up for mandatory urine tests. I would think besides violating unreasonable searches this would also violate the 5th amendment right of not incriminating oneself. Must have been over rided by the D.E.A.th amendment stating we will get away with whatever you let us get away with.
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Five Good Members of Congress DrugWarRant
On Thursday, Congress reauthorized the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
These are the principled members of Congress who voted against:

* Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA)
* Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA)
* Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)
* Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA)
* Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)

The rest of Congress likes spending taxpayers' money on ineffective, racist, un-American, and wasteful government agencies.

Reasonable Doubt: Can Crime Labs Be Trusted?
March 13, 2006, from 4:00 -- 5:00 a.m. ET on CNN.
Program Overview
In a criminal court, forensic evidence can be decisive. A fingerprint match or positive hair analysis can turn a questionable case into a slam-dunk conviction. Jurors often see forensics as infallible, and popular TV shows like CSI have added to the mystique. But how good is the science behind forensics? And how well do our crime labs operate? A joint investigation conducted by CNN Presents and the Center for Investigative Reporting reveals serious flaws in bullet evidence, hair analysis, DNA testing, and even fingerprinting. In some cases, those flaws have put innocent people in prison.

Hair lacks constitutional protection By Sherry F. Colb
FindLaw Columnist Special to CNN.com Friday, November 19, 2004
LAW DICTIONARY*(FindLaw) -- At the end of last month, in the case of Coddington v. Evanko, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that police officers may constitutionally shave large amounts of hair from a suspect's head, neck, and shoulders, without a warrant, probable cause, or any basis for suspecting that the hair would provide evidence of crime.

The Fourth Amendment guarantees the people the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. But according to the court, the Fourth Amendment does not apply to hair removal. In so ruling, the Third Circuit followed its own 1982 precedent, In re Grand Jury Proceedings (Appeal of Mills), which held that taking hair samples from visible parts of a suspect's body does not invade any reasonable expectation of privacy. Such investigation therefore does not qualify as a Fourth Amendment "search."

Hair Testing For Marijuana Called Unreliable, But Proceeds Anyway

April 7, In a copyrighted story by C. Eugene Emery, The Providence Journal reported that even though the developer of the new hair test for drugs acknowledges that the test is not a reliable indicator of marijuana use, they are testing for it anyway.

The test, marketed by Psychemedics of Cambridge, Mass. is designed to detect trace residues of illicit drugs that may have been used over the last several months.* One advantage of hair testing over urine testing is that cocaine and heroin are not detectable in urine after a day or two, while marijuana metabolites can be detected for weeks.* The urine testing has the effect of encouraging the use of cocaine and other hard drugs over marijuana.* Urine testing is also considered relatively easy to beat.

In the Providence Journal story J. Michael Walsh of the National Institute for Standards and Technology and former executive director of President Reagan's Drug Advisory Council was very critical of the reliability of hair testing in general, but especially when used for detecting marijuana.* Walsh told the Providence Journal (which uses the hair test) that, "It is just inappropriate to deny employment or take adverse action against an employee on the basis of such a test."
[For more information on hair follicle testing, contact Allen St. Pierre at NORML, (202)483-5500.]

Drug Testing FAQ v4.12
1998/3/15 URL:www.csun.edu/~hbcsc096/dt

Fooling the Bladder Cops by Justin Gombos
(Frequently Wanted Information on how to beat drug tests)

During a job interview, have you ever been asked to piss for your new employer? New applicants for many of the Fortune 500 corporations are now being forced to take a drug test. In fact, 15 million will be tested this year. Drug byproducts can be detected in urine, blood, hair, external
residue, and even perspiration! Drugs aren't the only things they test for; employers are using urinalysis to test women for pregnancy. Pregnant women are getting laid off or denied employment after taking such a test. Parents are spying on their children. The DOD Directive requires the
military to screen all active duty members annually. If you don't want to be a victim of the drug war, this text will help you. If you are well known, this text may protect your reputation. I strongly recommended that drug users (pot smokers in particular) read this. Other drugs are covered as well, but marijuana is the main focus of this paper.

Drug Testing in the Workplace
ACLU Briefing Paper Number 5

There was a time in the United States when your business was also your boss's business. At the turn of the century, company snooping was pervasive and privacy almost nonexistent. Your boss had the right to know who you lived with, what you drank, whether you went to church, or to what political groups you belonged.

With the growth of the trade union movement and heightened awareness of the importance of individual rights, American workers came to insist that life off the job was their private affair not to be scrutinized by employers. But major chinks have begun to appear in the wall that has separated life on and off the job, largely due to the advent of new technologies that make it possible for employers to monitor their employees' off-duty activities. Today, millions of American workers every year, in both the public and private sectors are subjected to urinalysis drug tests as a condition of getting or keeping a job.

Articles On Urine Testing
*** USA Drug Testing Laws ***

PISS OFF!
How drug testing and other privacy violations are alienating America's youth.
Authors Laura and Paul Finley detail how school policy serves to alienate, denigrate, and subjugate the youth of our society. Rather than find humanistic ways to further the intellectual, emotional, spiritual and physical development of the youth, schools are increasingly taking on militaristic characteristics emphasizing efficiency, chain of command, and zero tolerance for mistakes (i.e., learning).
287 Pages

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http://www.yahooka.com/forum/showthread.php?t=956 35]U.S. 'Piss Tasting’ Grity Act of 2005'[/url]

U.S. Lawmakers consider 'Drug Testing Integrity Act of 2005'
On June 8, 2005 U.S. Representative Eliot L. Engel(D) NY, introduced into congress a bill that proposes a prohibition on the "manufacture, marketing, sale, or shipment in interstate commerce of products designed to assist in defrauding a drug test".
F U L L S T O R Y http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4580.html



The Whizzinator: A House Panel's No. 1 Priority

Employee Who Uses ‘Medical’ Marijuana May Be Fired



"Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war?"
- William A. Turnbow

High Court Hears Case on MMJ in The Workplace

ClearTest will help you pass a drug test

Drugged on Democracy



Congress Considers Dangerous Mandatory Minimum Sentences For Marijuana
Ask Your Member of Congress To Oppose H.R.1528!



"Corrupt police are separated into two distinct categories: "grass-eaters" and "meat-eaters." Grass-eaters described typical street cops who pocket $10 or $20 from contractors and tow-truck drivers and gamblers. Meat-eaters aggressively exploit situations for financial gain, especially gambling and drugs, where yields can be "thousands of dollars."
- 1998 report to Harlem congressman Charles Rangel

Seize This!

Prison Profit and Slave Labor

Slave labor means big bucks for U.S. corporations

Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim -- when he defends himself -- as a criminal.
-- Frederic Bastiat, "The Law"

Self Perpetuating Lies
The Ganjawar Fraud



"Homer: You know, one day honest people are gonna stand up to you crooked cops...
Chief Wiggum: They-they are? Have they set a date?"
- "The Simpsons"

Silencing Political Dissent

What To Do When Marijuana Comes To Work



The American Civil Liberties Union, in a 1999 report, argued that drug testing programs were not cost-effective - costing industries millions of dollars a year to nab the small percentage of workers who use drugs.

Just Say No To Drug Tests



Setting Drug Impairment Levels Far Off

"Never let arbitrary law rule your judgments: it is the vice of the ignorant, who make a vain boast of their cleverness."
- Miguel de Cervantes, "Don Quixote"

Drug-Test Case Pitting Ideology Against Law

Misdemeanor possession... Confiscate her home!!!



The ACLU said that the federal government spent $11.7million to test nearly 29,000 workers in 1990. Only 153 employees flunked, putting the cost of finding each user at $77,000, according to the ACLU.

CannabisNews Drug Testing Archives
Pisstasters links/arts

Citing several academic and other studies, the ACLU says that drug users are not any more likely than their nonuser counterparts to have workplace accidents.

ACLU Offers Help in Pot Case

Farben's Bushit Circus Still In Town

Anslinger-Bush-Hearst-Nixon-Hitler- Jüs Déjå vü!!!

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."*
-- Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945

Corporate Predators...

Shadow of the Swastika

Supreme Court to Hear Arguments In Case

Court To Clarify Student Drug Test Rules

"A single glass of wine will impair your driving more than smoking a joint. And under certain test conditions, the complex way alcohol and cannabis combine to affect driving behaviour suggests that someone who has taken both may drive less recklessly than a person who is simply drunk."
New Scientist March 2002

FIT 2000 non-invasive 30-second impairment test.
"FIT 2000 is directly relevant to employers interested in high quality, exacting, detail work, as well as general safety and quality, without violating the privacy of the employee'

Putting The Pee In Protest

From Whom Did the Fascists Get Support?

Italian fascism and German Nazism had their admirers within the U.S. business community and the corporate owned press. Bankers, publishers, and industrialists, including the likes of Henry Ford, traveled to Rome and Berlin to pay homage, receive medals, and strike profitable deals. Many did their utmost to advance the Nazi war effort, sharing military industrial secrets and engaging in secret transactions with the Nazi government, even after the United States entered the war. During the 1920s and early 1930s, major publications like Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, Saturday Evening Post, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Christian Science Monitor hailed Mussolini as the man who rescued Italy from anarchy and radicalism.

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More Job Applicants Failing Workplace Drug Test
September 28, 2005 By The Associated Press
Oregon -- Workers and job applicants are failing drug tests at a higher rate this year in Oregon, bucking a recent national trend, officials say. Oregon Medical Laboratories in Eugene, the state's largest drug-testing laboratory, reports a 30 percent increase in the first six months of this year. Marijuana remains the most frequently detected drug, showing up in more than half of all positive tests. But methamphetamine appears to be the fastest-growing illegal drug of choice among workers.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21147.shtml

CannabisNews Drug Testing Archives



Drug Testing Feels Economic Pressures
They are the staples of a modern-day job search: a polished resume, glowing references and a clean urine sample. Without fulfilling that last criterion for a satisfactory drug screen, applicants at many U.S. companies can forget about employment.

In the almost two decades since the federal government launched its "drug-free workplace" promotions, tests for illicit drugs have become standard for thousands of employers.

The tests have been credited with everything from higher productivity to decreased worker compensation claims. Tests are given to 25 million people annually, with an additional 25 million workers subject to screening.

But as thousands of displaced workers hunt for new jobs in the current economic slump and hiring has slowed, the $737 million drug-testing industry's expansion in workplaces has slowed accordingly.

And some employers are becoming less willing to spend money for drug testing if they do not believe that it contributes to the bottom line.

Growth of the drug testing industry, which averaged more than 12.5 percent annually during the 1990s, has tapered off to only about 1 percent a year.

Laboratories also struggle to provide accurate testing results despite "counterproducts " - the array of additives, cleansers and gizmos, readily available on the Internet, that employees can utilize to circumvent a positive drug test. Critics question whether businesses reap tangible benefits from the urine-in-a-cup. Continued cannabisnews.com/news/thread16218.shtml

Allen St. Pierre, executive director of the NORML Foundation, a research organization that supports marijuana legalization, has a different perspective. He believes that employers have good reason to be concerned about workers who are high on the job. But urine tests are far more likely to nab employees who use drugs at a Saturday night party than those who are impaired during work hours, he said. And he believes that drug-testing policies are aimed more at morality than at productivity.

The American Civil Liberties Union, in a 1999 report, argued that drug testing programs were not cost-effective - costing industries millions of dollars a year to nab the small percentage of workers who use drugs. The ACLU said that the federal government spent $11.7million to test nearly 29,000 workers in 1990. Only 153 employees flunked, putting the cost of finding each user at $77,000, according to the ACLU. Citing several academic and other studies, the ACLU says that drug users are not any more likely than their nonuser counterparts to have workplace accidents.

ACLU * NORML

US MI: Editorial: The Body Detectives: 20 Years Of Drug Testing
Drug testing is similar to what some refer to as the "middle child syndrome." Others call it mediation. Something occurs between two parties and a third is called in to go back and forth between the two. The third party can bear the brunt of the tension, and occasionally has to make like a referee in a boxing match. These people are the epitome of the word`misunderstood', and of the old cliche, "don't shoot the messenger."

Dr. Darryl Lesoski, M.D. and his peers are the middle child of the drug testing controversy. As administrators cry out for more drug testing of workers, and those same workers cry out against an invasion of privacy, clinical drug testers go about their business, trying not to get too much of the mess on them.

Dr. Lesoski is the Medical Review Officer for Munson Medical Center; he describes his job without exaggeration. "I am a physician. The practice that I do is occupational and environmental medicine. Predominantly we deal with workplace injuries, illnesses... I'm certified as a medical review officer ( MRO )."

He adds that MROs are physicians who are licensed and have taken a course and passed an exam to become, "basically the local expert on drug screening." Continued... http://www.mapinc.org/ccnews/v04/n1095/a03.html

The Pisstasters

Gambling Pisstasters

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
-- Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas



If I instituted drug testing at Cypress, I would get a brick through my windshield, and I would deserve it.
--T.J. Rogers, President, Cypress Semiconductor

FIT 2000 non-invasive 30-second impairment test. "FIT 2000 is directly relevant to employers interested in high quality, exacting, detail work, as well as general safety and quality, without violating the privacy of the employee'

Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, 1974
The Hype: Brain Damage and Dead Monkeys (Jack Herer)



Urine Testing Company

After his resignation, Turner joined with Robert DuPont and former head of NIDA, Peter Bensinger, to corner the market on urine testing. They contracted as advisors to 250 of the largest corporations to develop drug diversion, detection, and urine testing programs.

Soon after Turner left office, Nancy Reagan recommended that no corporation be permitted to do business with the Federal government without having a urine purity policy in place to show their loyalty.

Just as G. Gordon Liddy went into high-tech corporate security after his disgrace, Carlton Turner became a rich man in what has now become a huge growth industry: urine-testing.

This kind of business denies the basic rights of privacy, self-incrimination (Fifth Amendment) rights, unreasonable search and seizure, and the presumption of innocence (until proven guilty).

Submission to the humiliation of having your most private body parts and functions observed by a hired voyeur is now the test of eligibility for private employment, or to contract for a living wage.

Turner's new money-making scheme demands that all other Americans relinquish their fundamental right to privacy and self-respect.

Policing For Profit: The Drug War's Hidden Economic Agenda

Spoils of Drug War Forfeitures Prove Too Lucrative

"Give me control over a nation's currency and I care not who makes its laws."
[Baron M.A. Rothschild (1744 - 1812)]

Just Say No To Drug Tests

Setting Drug Impairment Levels Far Off

Drug-Test Case Pitting Ideology Against Law

"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
--Mussolini

Cops Confiscation Maliciously Punished Amputee

Think of the message being sent to the kids?



Gallery

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SCAPEGOATING -
Blaming social problems on a cultural, racial, or behaviorial group.

PREJUDICE -
Selling the public on the idea that all members of the targeted group are 'bad' people.

LIES -
'Facts', which cannot be verified, and pseudo scientific studies are used as propaganda against the targeted group. History is rewritten.

NO PUBLIC DEBATE -
"These people have no right to have their viewpoiunt aired." and " Anyone who disagrees or questions us must be one of them!"

DEHUMANIZATION -
Characterizing all members of a targeted group as subhuman and typically capable of monstrous deeds and/or crimes.

PROTECT OUR CHILDREN -
"They corrupt, seduce and or destroy our children."

CIVIL LIBERTIES SACRIFICED -
"We must give up some of our freedoms, liberties, and rights in order to combat this menace to society."

LEGAL DESCRIMINATION -
Laws criminalize members of targeted group and they may be denied jobs, the right to own property and/or be restricted as to where they may live or go.

INFORMERS -
Citizens are urged to 'turn in' friends, neighbors, co- workers and family members.

SECRET POLICE -
Non-uniformed police squads set up to wage war on targeted groups utilizing deception, infiltration, espionage and entrapment.

CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY -
Property and assets are seized from people who are members of targeted group. Property may be divided between the informer and the state.

REMOVAL FROM SOCIETY -
Prisons, rehabilitation camps, 'hospitals', executions and genocide...
("kill them all" "Zero Tolerance")



Hemp-Oil Urinalysis Acquittal Puts Piss-Testing in a Hard Place

U.S. Lawmakers consider 'Piss Tasting Grity Act of 2005'

Drug Testing should be illegal



Marijuana Arrests For Year 2004: 771,608
NORML: October 17, 2005 - Washington, DC, USA
Record High; FBI Report Reveals
Pot Smokers Arrested In America At A Rate Of One Every 41 Seconds
Washington, DC: Police arrested an estimated 771,608 persons for marijuana violations in 2004, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's annual Uniform Crime Report, released today.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21198.shtml



"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it."
--Abraham Lincoln, 4 April 1861

Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (CCLE)

Bush's Reefer Madness

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Boycott companys that drug test!
The Non-Testers List is a list of companys that invade YOUR privacy
with drug tests even though there is no demonstrated need.



Companies Who Violate YOUR Freedom
This list of anti-freedom companies has been continued for years. The list is currently run by testclean.com. TestClean.com has no affiliation with this web site what so ever. If you can't find your company on NTList, check for the unfriendly rights violators.



Boycott Pisstasters (sample letter)

Dear RECIPIENT'S NAME,
I am writing to you today to let you know I will no longer be doing any business with your company. I have learned that your company is one of the 2005 Mission Members of Associated Oregon Industries (AOI). continued... http://www.ornorml.org/contact/letters/aoi-boycott.txt

Drug Testing
A positive drug test does not indicate whether an employee was impaired or intoxicated on the job, nor does it indicate whether an employee has a drug problem or how often the employee uses the drug. Thus most tests do not provide information relevant to job performance.
Source: Lewis Maltby, Vice President Drexelbrook Controls, Harsham, PA, as cited in Report of the Maine Commission to Examine Chemical Testing of Employees,
(1986, December 31).



Associated Oregon Industries, Enemies of Medical Marijuana
Associated Oregon Industries (AOI) is a pro-business organization made up of Oregon companies and national companies with Oregon offices. Their mission is to lobby the Oregon legislature on issues that impact businesses. While we at Oregon NORML are supportive of Oregon's business community, we cannot ignore AOI's position regarding medical marijuana patients in the workplace.



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Drug Testing FAQ
Fooling the Bladder Cops

Stealing Urine
Who Drug Tests?
Politics and Ethics

Welfare Drug Testing (4/15/2003)
As part of his administration's war on drugs and zero tolerance policies, President Reagan ordered drug testing of all federal employees in the 1980s.*******
* The Supreme Court scaled back random drug testing to only include employees in safety sensitive positions such as pilots and conductors.****
* The 1996 Welfare Reform Act*authorized (but did not require) states to impose mandatory drug testing as a prerequisite to receiving state welfare assistance.

The Fourth Amendment*protects against unreasonable search and seizure. Mandatory drug testing is considered a search, and courts have ruled that most drug testing programs can only be imposed if they serve special needs, usually related to public safety.



Drug Testing Books

Pass the Test - An Employee Guide to Drug Testing
Every year Millions of people face drug testing and thousands of completely innocent people test like they are drug users. Even eating poppy seed bagels or using certain cough syrups can cause you to test positive.

Urine Trouble
The truth about drug tests: Why users are passing, and why non-users are failing. Includes how to protect your job and your reputation at work. And also inside: Medical Secrets to Passing Drug Tests. Written by a medical doctor who tells the truth.

Drug Test at Work - Guide for Employers
This comprehensive guide to drug testing in the workplace describes the tests and how they works, discusses the civil rights issues and tells how to set up a drug testing program.

Drug Test Secrets
Drug Test Secrets has everything you would like to know about how to pass a drug test. The Author points out in detail what will not work, the myths, and the methods that are truely effective in a drug testing situation.

Conquering the Urine Test
The classic writing by Jeff Nighbyrd is a complete guide to urine drug testing written for workers trying to protect their civil rights. Includes detailed discussion why urine tests are unreliable. The public are not told the truth about urine testing.

Steal This Urine Test
Fighting Big Brother's Bladder Cops.



Drug Testing 101
Testing for illegal substances is increasingly part of the job application process.
Here's what we know.

Marijuana: 2 days to 11 weeks
Cocaine: 1 to 4 days
Heroin: 2 to 4 days
Alcohol: 6 to 24 hours
(so just don't be hammered while taking the test)
PCP: 3 days to two weeks
Conclusion: Any casual drug user should be in the clear after 11 weeks.

Supremes Strike Down Hospital Practice
US Supreme Court Strikes Down Hospital Practice
of Giving Drug Test Results To Police Without Patient Consent

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Blowing Smoke By Ryan Grim
CN Source: Slate March 21, 2006*USA
Drug testing of the American public has been steadily broadening over the past 20 years, from soldiers to grocery baggers to high-school and middle-school students. In its 2007 budget, the Bush administration asks for $15 million to fund random drug testing of students—if approved, a 50 percent increase over 2006. Officials from the federal drug czar's office are crisscrossing the country to sell the testing to school districts.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21677.shtml

CannabisNews Drug Testing Archives



Mind-altering drugs both banned and pushed
By KEITH HOELLER March 16, 2002

Random drug tests no answer
We agree with the members of the Free-hold Regional High School District Board of Education who indicated that they do not want to see students given random drug tests or believe such tests would serve as a deterrent to drug use by teenagers. The district should not be in the business of randomly selecting students to be tested. We support the present policy that offers assistance to a student when reasonable evidence suggests that person is using illegal substances.

Are drug tests reliable?

11/22/99 No. The drug screens used by most companies are not reliable. These tests yield false positive results at least 10 percent, and possibly as much as 30 percent, of the time. Experts concede that the tests are unreliable. At a recent conference, 120 forensic scientists, including some who worked for manufacturers of drug tests, were asked, "Is there anybody who would submit urine for drug testing if his career, reputation, freedom or livelihood depended on it?" Not a single hand was raised. Although more accurate tests are available, they are expensive and infrequently used. And even the more accurate tests can yield inaccurate results due to laboratory error. A survey by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, a government agency, found that 20 percent of the labs surveyed mistakenly reported the presence of illegal drugs in drug-free urine samples. Unreliability also stems from the tendency of drug screens to confuse similar chemical compounds. For example, codeine and Vicks Formula 44-M have been known to produce positive results for heroin, Advil for marijuana, and Nyquil for amphetamines.

But shouldn't exceptions be made for certain workers, such as bus drivers, who are responsible for the lives of others?

Obviously, people who are responsible for others' lives should be held to high standards of job performance. But urine testing will not help employers do that because it does not detect impairment. If employers in transportation and other industries are really concerned about the public's safety, they should abandon imperfect urine testing and test performance instead. Computer assisted performance tests already exist and, in fact, have been used by NASA for years on astronauts and test pilots. These tests can actually measure hand-eye coordination and response time, do not invade people's privacy, and can improve safety far better than drug tests can.
The above article was supplied by the ACLU - scroll 1/2 down pg


Just Say No To Drug Tests by Ed Carson
Beat The Whiz Quiz
Author Ed Carson, who served as the substance abuse coordinator for a large U.S. military base, knows not only how the tests are done, but how to beat them. He did it successfully for eight years. This book details the exact methods for countering drug tests of all types. Your employer doesn't own you twenty-four hours a day, and what you do on your time is your business. This book will show you how to preserve your lifestyle and keep your job.

American armed forces
Assuming major new domestic policing and surveillance roles

Military Creeping Into Domestic Law Enforcement?

More Bizarre Psychological Testing
How to Break the Human Spirit

Healing By Killing
Written, Directed and Produced by Nitzan Avirim, 1996, 90 minutes
Before what we usually recognize as a Holocaust in the name of racial purity was fully underway, mass killings began in the name of medicine. Between 1939 and 1941, 70,000 to 100,000 patients -- mentally ill, disabled, men, women, and children -- were killed by lethal injection or gas, at the hands of doctors, who had pledged themselves to uphold the ancient and sacred oath to "do no harm".



ACLU/SSDP Lawsuit! Wednesday, March 22, 2006
The ACLU and Students for Sensible Drug Policy are filing a federal lawsuit today against the Department of Education and Secretary Margaret Spellings. The suit challenges the constitutionality of the law that strips college financial aid from students with drug convictions. See New York Times article today. More info on the lawsuit is available here.
This is being covered over at the DARE Generation Blog , where they are also seeking students who have been denied financial aid to be part of the class action suit. If you're on a campus and would like to help out, go to the lawsuit page and print out some fliers to put up around campus to help them find plaintiffs.

Jive Souder: Drug Sentencing Reform Act
Souder Illusion: Harsh Drug Bill Coming Soon To Congress