Drug Testing is about to get tougher

I just got this email from Norml. Some of you may have gotten it yourselves. For those who didn't, here is the entire story, as well as the info if you want to subscribe to the news yourselves.

Congress To Outlaw "Anti-Drug Testing" Industry
Washington, DC: Members of Congress this week vowed to introduce
legislation to prohibit the use and sale of commercial products intended
to influence drug test results, such as diuretic teas and chemical
adulterants.
"These products ... endanger the public," said Rep. Ed Whitfield (R),
Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on
Oversight and Investigations, who called this week's hearing. "I can't
think of any reason why we'd allow these products in interstate commerce."
Presently, 14 states have enacted laws prohibiting the sale of such
products. Members of the Committee said they intend to introduce similar
federal legislation before the end of the year.
Of the estimated 55 million drug tests performed annually,
approximately 90 percent of those are urine tests, which may be influenced
by dilution or adding an adulterant to the sample. Over the past decade,
numerous commercial businesses have begun selling various products
promising to influence drug test results, including herbal teas and
substitute urine.
While often referred to as an impairment test, urinalysis cannot
detect the presence of parent drugs, and only indicates that a particular
substance may have been previously consumed at some unspecified point in
time. In the case of cannabis, non-psychoactive marijuana metabolites
(compounds produced from chemical changes of a drug in the body) may be
detectable in urine for days or even weeks after past use. As a result,
the US Department of Justice affirms that a positive urine test, even when
confirmed, "does not indicate ... recency, frequency, or amount of [drug]
use; or impairment."
Responding to the proposed Congressional action, NORML Executive
Director Allen St. Pierre said, "It's ironic that Congress is trying to
quash legitimates businesses that have successfully emerged in the free
market - particularly when the market for this industry is a direct result
of politicians' zeal to intrusively search the bodily fluids of tens of
millions of law abiding Americans without cause."
For more information, please contact either Allen St. Pierre or Paul
Armentano of NORML at (202) 483-5500.

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regarding marijuana policy. Text of archived stories is available on
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Go get yourself a whizzinator before they're illegal.

 

This country is going down the tubes.

 

Well somtimes I think it is a nesecary evil. I mean we surely don't want bus drivers or wrecking ball operators to be pcp addicts or anything....

However at the same time who the fuck cares if some cashier at wallmart smokes pot?

Seems to me this should be about common sense (or the lack thereof) more than anything.

*shrug*

 

The problem is Marijuana is mainly what they're testing for. The standard Nida 5 drug test tests for:

"marijuana (THC), cocaine, amphetamines, methamphetamines and opiates (heroin, morphine, etc.)"

PCP is not included.

 

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Every stoner needs to keep a straight-edge friend in case they ever need to borrow any urine. Thats what I do, and it has worked like a charm every time and is free.