No urine sample needed from Poe:

From The Bells
III

“Hear the loud alarum bells –
Brazen bells!
What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
In the startled ear of night
How they scream out their affright!
Too much horrified to speak,
They can only shriek, shriek,
Out of tune,
In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,
In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,
Leaping higher, higher, higher,
With a desperate desire,
And a resolute endeavor
Now – now to sit, or never,
By the side of the pale – faced moon.
Oh, the bells, bells, bells!
What a tale their terror tells
Of Despair!
How they clang, and clash and roar!
What a horror they outpour ”

David for mad geniuses

It’s not OK for anyone to have to give up these rights that have been eroded for decades by the sham War on Drugs. If more people had stood up and said “Hell NO!” back then (as I have strived to do, at every opportunity), we’d still have some privacy left…

Instead of an intrusive government & corporate system that regulates your fitness to be gainfully employed by dictating the composition of your bodily fluids.

If you make a stupid, egregious error or have a serious accident, by all means you should probably be checked out. By as a matter of course, assuming everyone has something to hide? Pfahg! Totalitarianism by Economic Fiat, pure & simple.

For that matter, even being sane sometimes doesn’t seem to be a requirement.

Nonetheless, it would be interesting if all legislators and governors were subject to non-disclosed drug testing. By non-disclosed, I mean the name of the one tested wouldn’t be disclosed but the results WOULD be disclosed.

If the results always came back negative, all would be well. They would have shown us they were worthy of our trust and vote — at the very least in that single matter.

If they ever came back positive, we would know at least ONE of them was breaking the laws they were writing or enforcing without knowing which one or ones it was. Some of them are already known to be breaking some laws, so it wouldn’t be anything inherently new, just in kind of breach. It might make us suspicious of all of them, but not if each and every one passed every time.

I just can’t believe they would ALL come back positive, so we won’t even consider that possibility.

David for an interesting experiment

“I find it interesting the Legislature exempted themselves and high level government officials from this testing.”
GreyLady, I find that interesting too but not surprising. I’m just surprised so few people even noticed.

Sam is right about the Governor selling his drug testing company to his wife. Hard to believe that was even legal but I guess it is. People have such short memories.

“The same exact way people can be ‘responsible’ with their drinking habits. You, sir, confound ME.”

Uh, the operative word here is ILLEGAL. If you are responsible, then you are certainly not doing something illegal. Not very complicated. We are talking about now, not during prohibition. Today, under our current laws, alcohol is legal.