Drug tests are NOT good enough. They are a racist employment policy that affects huge numbers of people, and is primarily used with the rest of this bullshit War on Drugs to harm low-income and predominately black communities.
They can wreck havoc with people's lives when chemical evidence of cannabis usage can last for months. Case in point: I had one of my summers spent picking up odd jobs, rather than working an okay temp job. Didn't pay nearly as well, and though I'm doing alright, that hurts most people far more.
Don't stand for them. They are every bit part of a system of policies hammering the poor and minorities disproportionately. We can't trade one system of racist policies for another. Pre-employment screening is not good enough.
I don't even know about on-the-job tests. In case of an accident at work and injury to self or others, maybe. But even those I feel like could that could still be used to discriminate. Unfortunately, hate tends to snake into our justice system. Just punish for the crime or violation that occurs and don't give them the tools to discriminate. I say punish, because the problem needs to be solved through an entirely different manner, with available social services and support throughout.
Of course, this ignores the discrimination against the lower-class workers, when in reality upper-class workers, especially the wealthy, kill unconscionable numbers with their policies and decisions. But that's a discussion for another day. I might agree with on the spot checks for high safety risk jobs, but don't know what labor unions think. But another time.
As for the rest of your post:
I somewhat agree about effects of cannabis on younger users. However, cannabis can be used effectively and safely for a wide variety of issues more safely than other medications. We need serious research on this, but that requires federal rescheduling. And in the meantime, I hate to punish any of it, because we know it just hurts communities, and of course it ends up being racist as hell because America.
I also support complete deregulation of the amount of cannabis someone can grow. This cannot be used by the state and corporations to control and profit off of, as they do with the alcohol industry and those laws. And, of course, completely destroys the cartel's trade.
And, of course, the way our entire financial system is aimed entirely against the poor: our insurance system is lawful theft for the most part. I can use responsibly--don't be testing me.
In the meantime, I want to get rid of yet another of the many harmful policies still brought about by our current politicians on both the extreme right and liberal sides of our corrupt justice and political systems.
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