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Old 09-29-2008, 01:30 AM   #1 (permalink)
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One In Five High Schools Piss Taste Students

Survey: One In Five High Schools Drug Test Students
September 25, 2008 - Washington, DC

Washington, DC: An estimated one in five high schools and one in ten middle schools engage in some form of student drug testing - including random testing, according to survey data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and published in the fall issue of Strategies for Success, a newsletter of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).

"Findings indicate that the number of schools conducting … drug testing may be [approximately] 4,000 - more than double the highest estimates cited previously," the ONDCP reported.

In all, 14.6 percent of all public and private middle schools and high schools now conduct some type of student drug testing, the CDC's School Health Policies and Programs study found. Slightly more than 50 percent of these schools reported conducted random drug testing among specific groups of students.

Of the schools that drug test, 84 percent utilize urinalysis - a method that detects the presence of inactive drug metabolites, but does not have the ability to determine recent drug use or impairment. Fifteen percent of schools employ hair follicle testing, the study reported. Eight percent use saliva testing, and three percent use sweat patch testing technology.

Of the drugs screened for, 86 percent of schools test for the presence of marijuana. By contrast, 75 percent of school drug testing programs screen for cocaine, 50 percent screen for alcohol, and fewer than 20 percent test for nicotine.

Last year the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Council on School Health resolved, "There is little evidence of the effectiveness of school-based drug testing," and warned that students subjected to random testing programs may experience "an increase in known risk factors for drug use." The Academy also warned that school-based drug testing programs could decrease student involvement in extracurricular activities and undermine trust between pupils and educators.

A 2003 cross-sectional study of national student drug testing programs previously reported, "Drug testing, as practiced in recent years in American secondary schools, does not prevent or inhibit student drug use."

A 2007 prospective randomized clinical trial also reported that students who underwent random drug testing did not differ in their self-reported drug use compared to students at neighboring schools who were not enrolled in drug testing programs.

For more information, please contact Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director, at (202) 483-5500 or Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director.

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Distortion 10: Young People and Drugs

Distortion 10: Current drug policy protects American youth.

Untrue. Current drug policy harms America's young people in many ways.




"The horrors experienced by many young inmates, particularly those who are convicted of nonviolent offenses, border on the unimaginable. Prison rape not only threatens the lives of those who fall prey to their aggressors, but it is potentially devastating to the human spirit. Shame, depression, and a shattering loss of self-esteem accompany the perpetual terror the victim thereafter must endure."
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CU Police Return Marijuana To Student By Vanessa Miller
CN Source: Daily Camera September 22, 2008 Colorado

University of Colorado police on Monday returned marijuana to a CU student -- who's a medical-marijuana cardholder -- after officers in May confiscated about two ounces of the drug from the freshman outside his residence hall room. Now-CU sophomore Edward Nicholson, 20, had threatened to sue the university after he said CU police confiscated marijuana that he's legally certified to administer to his brother -- who Nicholson said suffers from chronic, debilitating pain from football injuries.

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thats fucked up. i have never heard of anyone getting drug tested at school before
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Old 09-29-2008, 03:47 AM   #3 (permalink)
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they piss taste? that IS fucked up
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last year some parents had their kids drug tested during school with swabs that you sit in your mouth for a while and they randomly picked some kids and they picked me... i had no idea what i was being asked to the library for. but since i was 18 i was like screw this and they told me i could leave
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Finally - a drug free workforce!

Finally - a drug free workforce!
DWR: Pete Guither September 30, 2008

John Consoli wants to get rid of drugs in the workplace, one telephone handset at a time.

Consoli, 67, is the president of On Site, a Spring Hill, Fla., company marketing DrugWipe, a handheld narcotic detector.

Just swipe the DrugWipe against a keyboard or any other surface, Consoli said, and the toothbrush-sized detector can tell whether anyone who has touched the surface in the past 72 hours had drugs in his or her system.


What a wonderful, selfless guy. John Consoli just wants to get rid of drugs in the workplace. We know this because Helen Anne Travis of the St. Petersburg Times tells us this.

Of course, it couldn't have anything to do with the fact that Consoli owns a company that is trying to make money, could it?

A DrugWipe kit costs about $50 and can be used to check 10 to 15 surfaces. Testers must be trained and certified. Training takes a half-day and costs $500. Companies can also hire an On Site professional to test workplace surfaces; prices vary.

The good thing is that we know from reading Helen Anne Travis' article that DrugWipe is 100% accurate. How do we know this? Because president Consoli tells us it's true.

"It is 100-per-cent accurate," Consoli said.

So since Helen Anne Travis is writing this article about this revolutionary change to how businesses deal with human resources, she probably talked to some businesses about this idea...

Pinning down a corporation that used DrugWipe was difficult. Since Consoli is just starting out, he hasn't actually had any clients.

Well then, perhaps Travis shouldn't let Consoli get to third base on the first date.

But let's go back to this notion of certified testers wandering around companies swabbing telephones to collect glandular secretions of past activities.

Hmmm. Perhaps gloves will come back into fashion again.

But... What happened to management? I mean, real, honest-to-goodness management techniques? The kind that values good work? Companies used to hire managers who had the amazing ability to actually observe the work of their employees and discover whether they were doing a good job through that observation, and from looking at the quality of the work produced.

I know it's hard to believe, but it actually worked for a very long time. Perhaps even better than today's modern management techniques of ouija boards, studying employee urine, bundling failed mortgages, and collecting gland secretions with a swab.



Police Presence At Schools
CN NS: Calder, Paul The Amherst Citizen 9.26.8

Kids and Pot Discussion

Drug Testing Feels Economic Pressures
Author: Maria M. Perotin, Knight Ridder Tribune
Published: Wednesday, May 7, 2003


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"If I instituted drug testing at Cypress,
I would get a brick through my windshield, and I would deserve it."

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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'



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.


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Setting Drug Impairment Levels Far Off

Drug-Test Case Pitting Ideology Against Law



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-- Benjamin Franklin


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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.

What's Bill Bennett Smoking?

A War Worth Fighting - William Bennett

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More fuzzy drug-war math

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.




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If they have suspicion that your high at the one school I went to they could make you take a test.
 
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what if you are a minor and you refuse?

what if you are not a minor and you refuse?
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you have no rights in schools....
i know at mine, all the athletes can get tested randomly, and anyone who drives can get tested randomly.
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School rules are pretty much bullshit. I guess people under 18 aren't yet people so sorry, no rights for you. I'm all for getting a good education but things get a little extreme. At the high school I went to, and probably most others, they say that the students are their responsibility until they get home, while that could be a good thing I've never seen it used as such. I've seen people suspended for things they did miles away from school on their own time. I almost got suspended myself because in my senior year, after turning 18, I was smoking a cigarette on my way to school and a teacher saw me. Left my cigs in the car when I got there and locked the doors but apparently the principal felt kids were willing to break into my car to get at my cigs because every minor is instantly addicted to cigarettes with one glance. It was complete bullshit but ultimately the fact that I was 18 and can charm the shit out of anybody got my punishment down to a warning if I promised I would tell my parents, lmfao, they knew I smoked, I was fuckin 18. I promised I'd never bring cigarettes on school grounds again and started putting them in the glove compartment before school. Point being, if schools are that hard on legal substances in the possession of somebody of age to have them think of how bad they must be on illegal drugs. If schools spent half the money they spend disciplining the kids on teaching them then maybe America wouldn't be so red, white and retarded.
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Wow I thought it was illegal to drug test kids at school. Disappointing to hear this. Land of the Free. what a joke
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my school has a pit for smoking weed
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what if you are a minor and you refuse?

what if you are not a minor and you refuse?

If you are a minor and mommy or daddy says its okay, then you can't refuse. I mean, you probably could refuse, but you'd be looking at another school to attend.

If you're not a minor and refuse, see part two of above answer.

Conform or get out, we don't need no individuality here son.




And by the way, my graduating year was the last of the good times in high school. Open campus, smoking area, less that 3,000 students on campus at one time.






It was 1985.
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Yea just so its clear. Drug testing in schools in not normal (outside the states)
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It was 1985.
thats what high school was like for me, except i graduated in 05. but this was in canada.


i didn't know it was that bad in the states.
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WTF is the matter with these authority figures? It's called HIGH school!! You're supposed to be 'high'.

My high school had 5600 students. My class alone had 1300 students. Drug testing was unheard of...I mean REALLY unheard of. It wasn't invented yet.
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And by the way, my graduating year was the last of the good times in high school. Open campus, smoking area, less that 3,000 students on campus at one time.


It was 1985.
I was class of '85 too. And we had a smoking area, and you could pretty much buy smokes without being carded, so it was more than just 18+ year olds in the smoking section. We probably had somewhere around 3000 kids, as well.

And, it was STILL too fucking rediculous for me, so I GED'ed. (Graduated from a good university w/ a 3.0, BTW)

I could never make it in public school, today. I can barely stand being a member of regular society. It all seems like some kind of perverse Kafka-esque nightmare, anymore. Nothing makes sense, no one thinks, and the ship of fools chugs on toward oblivion with people fighting over who said what about whom...

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