One of the most striking and consistent observations about Dzhokhar, or Jahar as he was commonly known to his friends, was that he was a normal college kid. Evidence of his normality was his heavy marijuana use as a party boy.
One of the most striking and consistent observations about Dzhokhar, or Jahar as he was commonly known to his friends, was that he was a normal college kid. Evidence of his normality was his heavy marijuana use as a party boy.
It was great to be online with Rick Cusick from HIGH TIMES on this segment for HuffPost Live called “Flunking the Drug Test”.
Defense Attorney Patrick Nightingale from LEAP on bringing legalization to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Review of studies on marijuana and driving; Stupid Prohibition Stories with a guide on how to go to prison; music by HDI Records.
NORML’s Erik Altieri interview Gov. Gary Johnson; Cannabis Cure UK on Vietnamese “gang” in slave conditions at “cannabis factory”; Marine jailed in Mexico; Why State Welfare Drug Testing Laws Are Stupid, Expensive, Ineffective, and Cruel; music by Jacob Miller.
There is nothing about the 1988 Drug Free Workplace Act (DFWA) that requires most of them to “drug test” by inspecting the urine or saliva or hair of their employees to maintain the façade of a “drug-free workplace”.
Rebecca Forbes from North Carolina describes her life’s journey from marijuana grower to imprisoned felon to soccer mom to medical marijuana patient in our Listen to Your Mother segment; Behind the Headlines on sales of “Colorado: First to Legalize” gear by opponents of Amendment 64; Rant: Drug Free Workplaces do NOT have to test for marijuana!; music by Dizzy Gillespie.
The “Protect Our Society” group that brought us the “Meth Girl” Billboard in Oregon just can’t stop lying about it.
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 saliva swab, uncovered less than 1% of those students as drug users.
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 be forced to prove their innocence.
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 injustice of workplace drug testing is not to spread that injustice to our school children and our needy citizens.
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 so benign you can’t dissuade your kid from trying it based on its own harms so you have to make some up?
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 medical marijuana; music by Wes Green.
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.
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 clean urine and chemical warming packets just in case the random “whizz quiz” comes up – some are even strapping on dildos for the test because the boss has someone actually look to see if urine is coming out of a penis!
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 legalization of marijuana in three states and the medicalization of marijuana in a dozen others. This time he cites stats from something called ADAM warning that over half of arrestees in ten surveyed metro areas tested positive for drugs! You need to be afraid, very afraid, of the crime-seeking drug junkies!
