Drug court is a rehab-oriented approach to juvenile drug use. The juvenile agrees to go to NA or AA, to be counseled, and to be drug tested by a probation officer on a weekly basis. This is offered as an alternative to juvenile incarceration. I see no problem with asking a parent to be drug tested as a condition of participating in such an alternative sentence.
As a parent who went through this with a stepson, I can tell you that it is a lame-a$$ approach to the problem. The whole drug court system is a big waste of time and money. They allowed the kid 3 dirty tests, and made him go back every month. As parents, we had to take him to meetings, take him to and pay for counseling, and go to the court sessions every month. This did nothing to change the propensity of the kid to smoke pot, and even after a boot-camp type of incarceration for failure to comply, he still smokes pot to this date, 14 years later. All we did was pay money to a social services agency for counseling, and fees for participating.
The ultimate outcome is that he is a pot-smoking liberal.
Good for you, it might not have worked but you didn’t throw the kid to the curb. I can do the math, your step-son isn’t quite 30 yet, just wait. I believe because of you, he’ll become a better citizen after 30 and forget that liberal shit. He may always smoke pot, but he’ll not always be a liberal. You’ve shown him the folly in that.