🚀 go-pugleaf

Betsy Schwartz wrote:
> 
> fhapgood@world.std.com (Fred Hapgood) writes:
> 
> >
> > >
> > >       June 11, 1998, Washington, D.C.:  The Senate narrowly approved an
> > >amendment to the tobacco-control bill on Tuesday that seeks to spend $16
> > >billion targeting and enhancing penalties against marijuana users.
> > >Amendment 2451, spearheaded by Sen. Paul Coverdell (R-Ga.), funds state
> > >efforts to "establish state registration programs" for convicted
> > >marijuana sellers, drug test teenage driver's license applicants, drug
> > >test junior high and high school students, allow law enforcement to check
> > >motorists for the presence of marijuana metabolites, and encourage small
> > >businesses to adopt drug-free workplace programs.  The measure also
> 
> Say what???
> 
> There are lots of things to worry about here but "test junior high and high
> school students" really jumps out at me. What does that mean? All of them?
> Spot tests? Suspicion-based tests? Sounds like there might be a pretty
> massive civil rights violation in there somewhere...


The government has gone mad.
 
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