La guerre de la drogue crée déjà une classe sous alors une telle loi oblige les gens encore plus bas dans la pauvreté absolue et de désespoir. Ces lois discriminatoires  gens à travers le traumatisme psychologique. La guerre contre la drogue est une attaque contre les personnes les plus pauvres de la communauté. Les problèmes économiques auxquels nous sommes confrontés sont portées sur nous par les personnes en charge et pourtant ils ont mis le fardeau de la culpabilité de ceux de la communauté moins capables de se défendre.

Dickens must be laughing his arse off in the Afterlife; in this, our latest example of our treatment of the poor, we've become a caricature of his novels.

Most seeking such assistance were already on the knife's-edge of penury...before the drug-money-laundering banksters pushed them - and the rest of us - over the economic cliff.

Given the historical connection between cocaine-fueled hubris of the top members of the world economic system and their disastrous decisions affecting the entire Developed and Developing World, I'd sooner piss-test banksters and their political friends (like Obama) than I would some down-on-his-luck former factory worker.

 Would say to everyone, the testing companies are owned by who? Have found that politicians often have stock and therefore an interest in requiring everyone to take drug tests...it makes their pockets  and bank accounts grow. and ...would also note drug testing commonly prescribed  gives false positives, tests say you are using opiates when you are only eating poppyseed bagels... and no drug test can say you are under the influence of marijuana, when it is picking up exposure or use from two weeks or sometimes even a month ago...maybe longer.(Hard drugs are flushed from system in hours or a day or two). Drug tests are the biggest scam government agencys have bought into...Someone i know very well recently experienced screwups at the lab that caused them to test  3 times!!! all at the expense of the state... 1st was not enough of a sample, second was attendant leaving area, causing sample to cool as it sat on the cement floor for over 20 minutes , third was after 2 full bottles of water...and supposedly a valid test? state pays for 3 tests,all on same day,  comes out of our taxes, even though the essentials like food and medicare are cut...STUPID drug policys costs tax payers millions of dollars, while investors are smiling...

Random drug testing rarely detects anything but marijuana, since most other drugs metabolize and are gone in about three days.  Protecting employee health is not the concern of those who test employees, otherwise they would test for nicotine consumption or lung performance, too much trans-fat in one’s diet, liver cirrhosis, and other health problems.  After 6000+ years of use, marijuana has demonstrated no health hazards.  So what’s the concern about pot, if not a medical one?

Marijuana gets people high, and corrupt ideologues exist who don’t like people with altered states of consciousness.  They don’t like civilian practices and traditions they can’t control, or from which they cannot extract a profit. 

In a country founded by various religious sects, a puritanical meme hides within the judicial system like an HIV virus well hidden inside a nerve cell.  The fear that someone, somewhere, somehow, might be having a good time; or educating themselves spiritually without the intervention of a priesthood, is taboo.  Religions like Catholicism and Puritanism not only didn’t want people experimenting with or using strange medicinal plants, they didn’t want people thinking for themselves, which is something marijuana and other mind transformers like psychedelics are famous for causing.  

Stamping out the plague of prohibitionism means finding its hiding places and applying an effective vaccine.  Crimes against humanity, like those outlined by Human Rights Watch that address the drug laws, never originate from the ground up.  Drug prohibition couldn’t exist without a powerful government setting the stage and prepping its citizens for mass stigmatization and persecution of fellow citizens.  No one would care about pot were it not for the government and its cast of puritanical clowns.  Prohibition is a disinformation campaign designed to ruin people’s lives, and to do so in ways contrary to the guarantees put forth by the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

So what we have with marijuana is a line drawn in the sand.  The line stands for blind obedience, conformity, acquiescence to stupidity, and fraud, little else.  Dare to cross the arbitrary line, get caught doing it, and as a nonconformist or rebel you’re designated a second-class citizen for life.  Prohibition is the ultimate tyranny.  It must be stopped.

That puts a point on the matter better than I've heard for a long time. The only thing I might add is that prohibition may not be the ultimate tyranny, as I can imagine worse, but it certainly is one of the most insidious, convincing the majority that any interest in using such drugs is folly and that the law is meant to protect them from harm. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.