Perhaps the most damaging Constitutional causualty of drug prohibition has been the erosion of the 4th Amendment. The American Civil Liberties Union has held for years that random drug testing is illegal. They are helping a woman who serves as a police department matron and court interpreter in Pawtucket, RI sue the city after she was forced to take a drug test in order to keep her job.
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