[rottndog]

As for the legal drugs, most mean pot, but that will never happen, it cost business to much money. There is no simple way to prove someone is fried. You cant smell it on their breath, and they can still walk straight.


Someone who is coming to work fried will probably not be fired for being fried--Most likely that person will get fired for lack of performance on the job. On the flip side, people who like to get fried probably won't go to work fried because they value their jobs and don't want to get fired. This is pretty much self-regulating.

Also, any cost to employers in the pursuit of a drug free work environment (drug testing) will be money well spent when you consider the costs and liability involved with having employees on the job under the influence.

[Beagle8U]

"On the flip side, people who like to get fried probably won't go to work fried because they value their jobs and don't want to get fired. This is pretty much self-regulating."

Thats the problem, it isn't self regulating, and many do go out and get high at lunch time. It cost lots of money to haul them to a clinic for a whiz quiz and if its union they just refuse testing.

Even with testing it only shows traces are present, not amount or when it was ingested.

[Mannaggia l'America]

Someone who is coming to work fried will probably not be fired for being fried--Most likely that person will get fired for lack of performance on the job.

Let's say drugs are legalized.

Joe Schmoe can now get all the (drug of choice) he wants and can afford - and that will be lots more because I was told in a previous post that ending the WOD will remove the profit from selling drugs, so they will be cheaper.

So now Joe Schmoe can be even more self-destructive and get fried, and as you said above, will likely get fired from his job because of poor performance. But that's his problem, not ours.

But now Joe Schmoe has no job. But he's addicted to (drug of choice). So where does Joe get money to feed his addiction?

Can we say "crime"? (Oh wait, ending the WOD ended crime...)

Or does the government now have a "drug stamp" program, like food stamps. (That wouldn't be very libertarian...)