I'd love to see the questionnaire they used to decide who was high risk.
So would I.
I'd love to see the questionnaire they used to decide who was high risk.
So it's a legality argument? So should they be able to pay for a speeding ticket with their money? I don't want them paying the consequences of their illegal activity with tax money. How about gambling? Should Utah residents be able to gamble with their money if they drive to Wendover? Gambling is illegal in Utah.
Then it is a good thing they are not in Utah. Equating speeding and gambling to heroin and meth is foolish. But you already know that.
Truth be told. If they did away wtih drug testing on employment. The legality of it. I'd let this sleeping dog lie.
I want pot to be legal but honestly, if they stopped drug testing at my job then I really wouldnt care as much about it being legal.
I just want to be able to puff a bit and relax in my home after a long work day
Pot should be legal. LEgalize it and use it to create jobs and revenue for the country.
Pot should be legal. LEgalize it and use it to create jobs and revenue for the country.
Big pharma > CartelOnly problem with that is the licenses to produce would be given to big pharma. Either party, whether it be Dems or Reps, would cite the need to ensure quality and as much uniformity of product as possible. And whichever pharma companies make the biggest campaign contributions will win the contracts. It might be legalized on either a prescription basis or for recreational use, but the supply will be just as tightly controlled and enforced.
Big pharma > Cartel
Legalize it
Only problem with that is the licenses to produce would be given to big pharma. Either party, whether it be Dems or Reps, would cite the need to ensure quality and as much uniformity of product as possible. And whichever pharma companies make the biggest campaign contributions will win the contracts. It might be legalized on either a prescription basis or for recreational use, but the supply will be just as tightly controlled and enforced.
I have one think it cost me $12-13. It also gives me nitrogen levels sunlight and water meter. pretty impressive little gizmo.I have a hard time believing that if marijuana were legalized it wouldn't also be legal to grow a certain amount of your own for personal consumption. In the states that have legalized and/or allowed medical marijuana they have also allowed this have they not?
It was funny, I needed a pH meter for homebrewing and turns out they are all over the place and fairly inexpensive because apparently it's an important piece of equipment for hydroponic farming.
franklin,
For each successful test, you start with approximate 400 applicants, at a cost of $6,000 per applicant. About 40 move on to the second stage of testing, at $25,000 each. That makes $3,400,000 of invested cost per successful removal from the program. I'm confused why you think this is recouped by saving a few hundred a month on an applicant.
Utah has spent more than $30,000 to screen welfare applicants for drug use since a new law went into effect a year ago, but only 12 people have tested positive, state figures show.
The data from August 2012 through July 2013 indicates the state spent almost $6,000to give 4,730 applicants a written test. After 466 showed a likelihood of drug use, they were given drug tests at atotal cost of more than $25,000, according to the Utah Department of Workforce Services, which administers welfare benefits and the tests.
It doesn't say each or per anywhere:
What I am seeing in this thread is not arguement against drug testing for public assitance based on policy. I am seeing opposition based on cost. Is that correct?