gr8Dad
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"Look, it's illegal to use drugs."
Two points on that.
One, yes, it is, its also illegal to STEAL, and to NOT PAY TAXES, so I assume you wouldn't have a problem with them randomly searching your house or car just to SEE if you were stealing or not paying taxes on all of your money, right?
Two, drugs are illegal? Really? Nicotine? Alcohol? Painkillers? Sleeping pills? ALL of them are "drugs", the GOVERNMENT has just decided that SOME drugs are okay, and others are NOT. Also, you smoked pot, but now that you DON'T, you seem to feel that KILLING people for doing it is okay. Do you see how screwed up that is?
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Why give a "senior" discount, they have had plenty of time to raise the money...
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finz
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I think drug testing to recieve welfare benefits is reasonable. The government is already involved.
I think bringing the government (more) into EVERY custody situation would be a BIG mistake.
Personally, although I've never tried it, I think pot should be legal.
Any agency overseeing any such drug testing would need to consider that some people are LEGALLY using narcotics, amphetamines, pot, etc vs those that are using them illegally. Frankly, I wouldn't trust our government to keep that all straight. I could see quite a few kids being 'removed' from a parent who was prescribed a few Percocet after a surgical procedure and being put in an undesirable environment.
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dadinva
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Reged: 06/06/11
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From the perspective of a parent that once upon a time paid child support to a person I know used it for drugs, yeah, I had some moral dilemmas with that for sure. She spent not a dime of it on daughter, and I know that for a fact. Every red cent went to heroin. I had a major issue with a system that, quite literally, expected me to buy her drugs or put me in jail.
Do I think everyone should be randomly tested? Nope, but if a NCP who is paying support wants to make sure that s/he is not supporting the CP's drug habit, s/he should be able to request a random test. If positive, CP pays, if negative, NCP pays. That would keep NCP's from harassing their ex's with tons of drug tests.
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Runswithscissors
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Not in all states..there are medical exceptions.
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