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"So, why not? I'll drop my underpants and pee for a job. I've got nothing to hide!"

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• Drug Tests embody the philosophy: "Guilty until proven innocent!", and insults our fundamental principles of freedom, privacy, and fairness.
  
  
• What does it prove? We believe there is nothing of relevance to be found in one's hair, blood, or excrement. You can't determine one's ethics, or aptitude. or skills. or quality of work by examining one's urine.
  
  
• It's disgusting, vulgar, and bizarre! Forcing people to urinate for a job is a bizarre practice which belongs more in oppressive totalitarian regimes, like China, Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union than in America, land of the free. It indicates that we might be about 2 steps away from gassing Jews, or blacks, gays, commies, hippies, anarchists, witches, prisoners, freaks, pagans, atheists, tax protestors, unlicensed/uninsured drivers, homeless people, ... who will be next hated class to be persecuted?
  
  
• Civilized Man... or Dog Culture? When dogs greet each other, they sniff each other's rear-end. Perhaps each dog can learn what the other has been eating by the smell. So aren't forced drug tests kind of like a corporate poop-sniff? "Hmm. What have YOU been eating?" Do we want to create a society which acts no better than a dog?
  
  
• What's next? It's a "whiz-quiz" today... what will it be tomorrow? Most corporations already do extensive background checks on you (if you let them): Credit Checks, Motor Vehicle records, Criminal Background checks, etc. (If they are not extending you credit, or hiring you to be a driver, then perhaps you should think twice before consenting to them invading your privacy in this way!)
  
  These encroachments are gradual, but continuous. Things get worse until people protest by refusing to participate. If you don't refuse, then what kind of a world will we have in the future? Remember the poem by Martin Niemoller "They Came for Me"?
  
  Someday soon, will the corporate security people need access to your bank records? Will you consent to them searching your car or your house? Full cavity search? Heck, you've got nothing to hide! Right? Where does it end? Does the CEO get to have sex with your husband or wife? When do we say "NO MORE!"?
  
  Everyone has their limits. What are yours? When will you "just say NO!"?
  
  
• Drug tests invasive: Tests for so-called "illegal drugs" (where you supply a blood, urine, or hair sample) actually can detect much more than just the presence of illegal drugs. These tests also can detect:
  
  
  • Pregnancy
  • Disease
  • Use of Prescription Drugs
  • Genetic Information
  
  You may consider this information none of your employeer's business; but if you submit to providing your bodly fluids, you become powerless to decide what thay do with it.
  
  Why does this matter? Because employers can use this information to deny you employment, and you may never know the real reason. Perhaps a pregnant woman is told that another candidate was "more qualified", or perhaps the person with herpes is told that "the position has been filled". Perhaps the person taking AZT or Prozac is never called back. Perhaps the person carrying a gene related to diabetes was "under qualified".
  
  All of this information is personal and is no one's business but your own.
  
  
• Inaccurate: Drug tests are often designed to detect "metabolites", and NOT the drugs themselves, and are thus, inaccurate. This is really irrelevant, as we would not like to see greater accuracy; we want to see abolishment.
  
  
• Drug laws Unconstitutional! Urine tests are because of "Anti-Drug Laws". Many people believe and argue that all drug laws are Unconstitutional. This is because the Federal Government was never granted the power to regulate what we put into our bodies.
  
  We own our own bodies, right? So shouldn't it be our choice to put into them whatever we like? In a free society, shouldn't we be allowed to do pretty much anything. so long as it does not produce an injury of someone other? We DO live in a Free Society, don't we?.....
  
  

  Should we teach our children to follow the rules of law by their own free choice, because they are good rules, ... or do we teach them to "get in line, shut the hell up, and do as you are told", in fear of the harsh hand of a psychopathic, antisocial, and UNCONSTITUTIONAL government power? -- Ahimsa Dhamapada, in the Lawful Arrest FAQ http://faqs.org/faqs/law/lawful-arrest

  
  
  
• Human Dignity: No one should have to provide an excrement sample for a job. It is disgusting and humilating!
  
  
• Drug Tests not uniform: only for certain drugs. Let's face it: they aren't looking in your pee for evidence of Ritalin, Prozac, Viagra, or Minoxodyl. They are looking for evidence of certain illegal drugs, like marijuana. Now, these arguments hold true for ANY of the illegal mood-altering substances, like cocaine, heroin, etc., but let's pick a fairly safe and harmless one for an example: marijuana, a/k/a, reefer, ganja, bhang, weed, herb, ma huang, etc.
  
  By strict definition, substances like marijuana are NOT drugs. Marijuana is a natural plant that is used for medicine, food, and recreation. Drugs are patented chemicals or compounds that do not occur in nature, that pharmecutical corporations manufacture in order to make a profit.
  
  What really is the *fundamental* difference between recreational marijuana use and wiskey? Or, between marijuana and prozac?
  
  

  Whisky	Prozac	Marijuana
  too much can kill you	side effets include suicide	non-toxic, has been used medicinally and recreationally for 10,000 years. May be the oldest cultivated plant (see Dragons of Eden, by Carl Sagan)
  while you can make it yourself, it usually is manufactered by corporations	manufactured by a pharmecutical corporation	grows easily in you back yard
  sale makes a profit to the liquor store, the corporation that manufactured it, the magazines that took advertisements, and the state that taxed it	sale makes a profit for a pharmecutical company, a drug store chain, the magazines that took the advertisement, the doctor that prescribed it	You saved the seeds, you grew it, you enjoy it, no money changes hands. Hmmm... could a simple PROFIT MOTIVE be the source for all this "drug war" insanity?

  
  
  Oh, and speaking of profit, did we forget to mention all the cash involved in running the prisons containg all the hippy programmers we've busted? Check out the earnings reports at
  
  

  http://www.wackenhut.com (WHC), http://www.correctionscorp.com (CXW), http://www.avaloncorrections.com (CITY), http://www.correctionalservices.com (CSCQ),

  http://www.bi.com (BIAC), http://www.cornellcorrections.com (CRN), http://www.ramsay.com (RYOU), or

  
  
  
• Compliance implies consent If you give urine, you are implicitly saying that this is a just and decent thing to do to other people! Do you want them to make your wife or kids or mother pee on demand? You should refuse urine tests on this point alone!
  
  
• Drug tests do not indicate impairment! Depending on the method used, these tests can detect the use of "illegal drugs" which occurred days, weeks, or even months ago, far past the time when actual impiarment might occur. The effects of mild mood altering substances like marijuana are gone in just a few hours.
  
  We at the Society are not opposed to the concept of a "drug free workplace"! We don't believe that anyone should show up to work stoned, or tripping (or drunk, depressed, angry, or distracted for that matter). But we believe that in a free society, we should all be on the "honor system", and not be coerced with vulgar "poop-tests".
  
  Yeah, so your urine shows that you smoked a joint a month back. As they say on the radio: "So, what's your point, caller?"
  
  
• Casual Marijuana use not related to work accidents, any more so than other factors, like fatigue, or distraction. If an employer has a right to require testing to avoid accidents, why not a non-invasive skills/performance test, which can detect problems caused by ANY of these factors? A Urine test will never detect a hangover, or distraction due to a failed relationship, or fatigue caused by overwork.
  
  
• Searching only for "illegal drugs" inconsistent! What about legal drugs like alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine? What about ritalin, codeine, minoxodil, prozac, or viagra? Many of these have more serious side effects and present a greater danger to society or a greater risk of work accidents than whatever it is the corporations are looking for now. Is it ALL DRUGS that are bad? Or just some drugs? And who gets to decide?!
  
  
• Employee... or SLAVE?
  
  Q: What is the fundamental difference between an employee and a slave?
  A: Coercion
  
  An employer/employee relationship can always be described by a contract. An employer/employee relationship is always bound by a contract. Read this again if it is not clear. There is ALWAYS a contract. You do not have to be a "contract worker", or a Union worker. This is even true if you are "permanent", salaried, management, direct-hire, full-time, etc.
  
  Compare:
  
  

  All Contracts (such as employment contracts) must have:	Employment Contract in Default (slavery)	An employee who gives urine
  mutual benefit	The slave does not benefit	The employee does not benefit from a drug test
  mutual obligation	Only the slave is obligated to perform	the employer does not have any obligation before or after the drug test.
  mutual understanding	It is not important that the slave understand the terms	Does the employee understand that complience with such a disgusting practice is really voluntary?
  MUTUAL CONSENT	the Slave does not consent, yet performs anyway because of threats against his person	The worker does not consent to giving excrement, but complies because of threats of unemployment
  mutual right to remedy upon breech	The Slave has no rights	The employee has no rights of remedy (or, has been convinced of this!)
  proper subject matter	The master can do anything to the slave. After all, it's his property, right?	Being forced to urinate for a job is FAR beyond any decent employer/employee relationship
  responsible, adult, honorable parties	the Master does not act with honor toward the slave	One side is usually not even human! It is a corporation, which has no soul, no honor, etc.

  
  
  If you really DO NOT CONSENT (in your heart and soul) to providing a urine sample to your employer, and you do it anyway, then YOU ARE COERCED! You are less free, you have taken a step closer towards slavery.
  
  

  Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Some of us in the Society are marijuana users, some are not. Some may use other "forbidden" forms of recreation. We feel that the decision to use marijuana or other medicinal plants, like the decision about which text editor to use, or which color is best to paint your house, is "religious" in nature (meaning, there is no right or wrong; you choose whatever you like!), and should not be forced upon us with legislation, threats of imprisonment, or by coercion in the form of non-negotiable, or non-consensual employment "agreements".

Regardless of how you feel about marijuana use, or whether it's prohibition is legal, we feel that no one should be forced or compelled to give a sample of urine, saliva, poop, hair, blood, toejam, earwax, semen, naval-lint, a cervical-scrape, etc. for a job.