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Mississippi State House
Mississippi State House

Mississippi Public Benefits Drug Test Bill Proposed

The mania for drug testing people on welfare, unemployment, or Medicaid continues this year. A Mississippi solon wants to drug test anyone receiving public benefits, and other states are moving ahead, too.
drug testing paraphernalia (wikimedia.org)
drug testing paraphernalia (wikimedia.org)

Federal Unemployment Benefits Drug Test Bill Introduced

A Republican congressman from Georgia has introduced a bill that would mandate drug screening assessments for unemployment applicants and drug tests for those assessed as having a "high probability" of being drug users. But he cited only apocryphal evidence for any need for such legislation.
Linn State Technical College
Linn State Technical College

ACLU Blocks Missouri College Drug Testing

A Missouri technical college's plan to force students to take suspicionless drug tests is on hold after the ACLU of Eastern Missouri filed suit and won a temporary restraining order.
Linn State Technical College
Linn State Technical College

Missouri College Demands Students Undergo Drug Tests

A Missouri technical college is the first public college in the country to demand mandatory suspicionless drug testing of students, and it will likely be the first in the country to be sued for it too.