Surely you mean crack and not coke.
Coke is a rich persons drug. As is high end marijuana.
The issue is the folks who are druggies tend to have no ethics at all. Do you think a coke head would feel bad about hustling $100 of his free welfare money and trading it for $80 of real US bills ? Hell no, they dont care at all and it happens all the time. Thats one of the problems, welfare money is as good as cash as long as its used on selected items, so they DO find people who will trade them real money for their welfare cash. They take the traded real money and buy drugs with it.
Bottomline is, if you want assistance and handouts for having a hard time in life you should accept that there are conditions that come with that...A drug test is not asking much at all considering the reason for it is to not misuse the assistance they receive.
oh boy here we go. health insurance has become the go to for every thing now as an excuse for an employer to stick their nose into private business. either conform or no health insurance for you!!!!
as an employer, how exactly will somebody smoking a joint increase your health insurance?
good people aren't dopers.
[edit]I had a response for you, but realized you wouldn't understand it.
Years ago, on an aircraft carrier, one of the chiefs complained that the newly instituted drug testing in the Navy had gotten rid of many of his most competent sailors, and all he was left with was the alcoholics.
I was kicked out of the navy cuz of body fat percentage. I got an excellent on the run. Outstanding on push ups and sit ups. Gone anyway.
Bush needed to slash the military budget and lord knows he wasnt gonna cancel any of those overpriced government contracts, so they cut personnel.
Secretary of the Navy figured easiest way was body fat.
A SHITLOAD of fine technicians and hard workers were let go in a 6 month period. Most of them cost assloads of money to recruit and train.
Navy doesnt always make the best decisions, is my point. The zero tolerance drug policy just costs money. A lot guys just take their advanced training and use it to get nice civilian jobs. Heck some guys deliberately do drugs just to get out and start their civilian careers a couple years early. Two years of free nuclear engineering training is totally worth an Other Than Honorable if your only goal is a good paycheck. Or advanced electronics. Or a bunch of other programs that cost the Navy tons of money to push people through.
Many years ago as in 1984 the Navy instituted random drug testing. I saw the Navy get rid of people who put their own needs ahead of the safety of their shipmates. Accident rates dropped by a good amount after the first sweep. Never saw an increase in alcohol abuse or alcoholics in the Navy after the random drug testing began.
Quite a few good soldiers also died in Vietnam from being too high to understand they were in danger as well.
good people aren't dopers.
Fair point. But the drunk ones were just as dead.
Also, that war was run so poorly a lot of guys would have been massacred anyway.
But I often wonder how many would have made it back alive had they been sober and clear headed. And those guys would have had fewer issues once they integrated back into civilian life.
Mandated drug testing for welfare recipients is idiotic, a waste of taxpayer money, and a fine example of classism. I'd go into more detail, but suffice to say anyone who bothers to learn anything about drug use rates (and drug use treatment) will agree.
I was emphasising that passage because it has been used as the reason by government to provide welfare and other services/aid to less off. Argue what you will, but that is the facts as they are on the ground.
LOL. Irony found.
You remember amphetamine, right? That's the one that causes mania and hallucinations. It's one of the drugs that will make you think you're being attacked by zombies. This effect was originally called "amphetamine psychosis" but it was later changed to "stimulant psychosis" because it happens with many stimulants that are not amphetamines.
The problem with what you're saying is that roughly 100% of college students are druggies yet they don't seem to have any of these problems.
1 in 5 students admit to taking amphetamine and the rest lie about it. Trust me. I went to college.
The tricky part about amphetamine psychosis or mania is that you don't know you're high while it's happening. It seems real and it makes sense. I can think of a few times I bought a bunch of weird stuff because I had an idea, then the dexedrine wears off and I'm thinking "wtf was I doing?" Like one time I decided to move all of my data around between hard drives because I wanted the drives to be used a certain way. Certain files would go on this drive, other files go on that other drive, and do that for 5 hard drives. I had to format and reinstall Windows on the correct drive.I take amphetamines so I am more familiar than most. I have NEVER had hallucinations and can't think of anyone that has in the years I have taken them. Deprive people of sleep and they will hallucinate and it doesn't take adding any drugs to their system.
I don't know. Almost every person I've nudged about drugs has responded in a positive way. I found out several people I've known for years were all into MDMA. One of my super innocent cute friends said she would like to try LSD some time. Pretty much all of my chemistry classmates smoked weed at one time or another. Most of my engineering classmates were a little too enthusiastic about drinking. I recently found out that damn near everyone I know has tried cocaine at some point. That one really surprised me because I thought cocaine was this rare drug that nobody does.People that are already hooked on drugs have no issue with it but don't try to tell me taking drugs is socially accepted because it isn't.
So let's just stop giving out welfare money, right? At least you agree to that. Or at least allow those that are well to do draw welfare money to buy drugs, as well. Equal protection, right?