Drug Testing For Welfare Does Not Work And Wastes Money
Tennessee ended up wasting money, not reducing welfare applications, and catching only 0.2 percent of applicants with a failed drug test.
View ArticleThe Kinder, Gentler Drug Czar Still Wants to Lock You Up for Pot
Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske has a new article at the Huffington Post where he once again attempts to fulfill his statutory duty to scare the bejeezus out of Americans who might be considering the...
View ArticleWest Virginia company rejects family man after shaving his leg
We evaluate qualified, dedicated, talented employees not on the quality of their work, but by the content of their hair. Millions of American workers are, right now, carrying around a small bag of...
View ArticleOlympic drug testing means USA Basketball players avoid being high scorer
Grant Hill, recently interviewed on The Dan Patrick Show, claims that nobody on the USA Basketball team wanted to be the high scorer in any game, because they would then be subject to a drug test.
View ArticleThe Russ Belville Show #29 – Could a dime bag of pot someday actually cost a...
Dr. Mark Kleiman Ph.D., Public Policy professor at UCLA and co-author of "Marijuana Legalization: Everything You Need to Know"; Dr. Kevin Sabet Ph.D.'s latest misdirection on California's support for...
View ArticleSurprise! Drug testers support drug testing your kids
So, when your non-addict adolescent engages in a behavior for which there are no consequences, you need to violate his trust to manufacture a consequence? The marijuana smoking by itself is something...
View ArticleFla. welfare drug test suit: $1,000 per positive, much abuse
When we cover these stories, we often see comments along the lines of "well, if we have to take a drug test to get a job, they should have to take a drug test to get welfare!" The solution to the...
View ArticleKentucky forcing pain patients to buy drug tests to prove prescription use
In Kentucky, a recent emergency law passed to curb prescription drug abuse known as the "pill mill bill" is teaching some users legal prescription drugs what it feels like to be called a "druggie" and...
View ArticleWest Virginia schools spend $50,000 to catch ten students for drug use
Putnam County School District in West Virginia drug tested 1,072 6th-to-12th graders last year at a cost of over $50,000, according to the Charleston Daily Mail. The drug testing, performed via a cheek...
View ArticleOregon Prohibitionists Can’t Stop Lying About “Meth Girl”
The "Protect Our Society" group that brought us the "Meth Girl" Billboard in Oregon just can't stop lying about it.
View ArticleLet Olympic Athletes Choose Safer Drugs
Rampant Recreational Drug Use at the OlympicsSomewhere tonight in the Olympic Village in London, one of the world’s finest athletes is likely vomiting and blacking out from a recreational drug...
View ArticleTesting Athletes for Pot
Testing Athletes for PotHow the Legalization of Marijuana is Changing Anti-Doping CodesAs a 27-year-old female wrestler, Stephany Lee’s dreams of Olympic Gold in the 72 kilogram weight class were...
View ArticleUtah’s Drug Tests for Welfare Waste Money, Punish the Poor
Utah’s Drug Tests for Welfare Waste Money, Punish the PoorWe happened to find this story in the Salt Lake Tribune, “Data is in: Drug screening of welfare applicants is a mixed bag”, that caught our...
View ArticleThe Drug Testing Epidemic
The Drug Testing EpidemicOnce sold as a public safety measure, drug testing now serves to enforce a social disapproval of cannabis use, enrich drug testing industries, inflate drug rehab statistics,...
View ArticleO.penVAPE Drug Tests Its Employees
O.penVAPE Drug Tests Its EmployeesThe press release is a couple of weeks old, but I am still stunned by the triumphant declaration by a maker of cannabis vaporizer pens that it proudly drug tests its...
View ArticleLowe’s Clings to Service-Killing Job Discrimination
Lowe’s Clings to Service-Killing Job DiscriminationAs Colorado continues evolving as the first state with a constitutionally protected right to grow and consume cannabis, the prohibitionists in the...
View ArticleO.penVAPE Tries to Spin Its Drug Test Public Relations Failure
O.penVAPE Tries to Spin Its Drug Test Public Relations FailureOn April 17, O.penVAPE, a Colorado company that sells cannabis oil and the portable pens used to vaporize it, announced in a press release...
View ArticlePot Breathalyzer Just Solidifies Junk Science
Pot Breathalyzer Just Solidifies Junk ScienceYou may have read by now about the retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer who has invented the “pot Breathalyzer”. It’s the inevitable and...
View ArticleNCAA Has Sports’ & Industry’s Strictest Anti-Pot Threshold
NCAA Has Sports’ & Industry’s Strictest Anti-Pot ThresholdPrior to their shellacking at the hands of The Ohio State University in the College Football National Championship Game, the fans of the...
View ArticleThe “Radical” Russ Drug Testing Story (2015 Revision)
The “Radical” Russ Drug Testing StoryI have been a pot smoker since July 4, 1990. I began my marijuana reform activism on May 7, 2005. But it wasn’t until two years later that I was transformed into a...
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