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By the way, airline pilots don't have to be impaired by alcohol to get fired. They have strict policies on when they must cease drinking before a flight and that's that. As for your employer, it is likely their liability insurance rates that drive policy. If I was a trucking employer, I'd require mandatory testing for any substance which led to impairment. As long as I could get clean employees without problem, I'd set a very low tolerance limit on drugs with an impairing effect. I might also prohibit tobacco use, if the cost factors on benefits were significant.

It appears that your desire for legalization is to force your employer to do as you wish. Legalization should play no role in what your employer requires with respect to drug use.

You've made some broad assumptions. I've had company cars before and never had to submit to drug test for a rock hitting my car, or another driver causing an accident. I do not operate heavy machinery, nor do I have a CDL.

Again, the biggest problem is that drug testing does not test for impairment, and in some cases, does not even test for the actual "illegal" substance.

The point is, it wastes billions of dollars per year with absolutely no effect on safety, and the only people who ever get caught are pot users who are not impaired in the first place. It also creates a poor work environment.

All started by the sainted Ronald Reagan.

And, yes, I am for legalization of all drugs on constitutional, practical, moral, religious, and what ever other grounds you'd like.

If you allow government to dictate what you cannot ingest, then logically they can also dicate what you can ingest, and of course then they can also dictate what you must ingest.

This country existed longer without income taxation than it has had income taxation, and prior to 1913, we had the highest standard of living, no national debt, and attracted the productive. This country has also existed longer without drug prohibition than with it, and there was no drug problem when drugs were legal. Now we attract the unproductive, have huge national debt, and a massive "drug problem".

First, control of your earnings was taken, and then control of your body was taken. If you're all for that, well God bless you then.

You have a case for perhaps changing your companies policies, but not for legalization. Last time I checked, employers had the right to set strict standards for employment, even if they weren't justified.

No, the Feds have coerced my company and many others into adopting these policies due to govt contracts, OSHA regs, insurance mandates, and a myriad of other requirements that I'm not sure if anyone really knows about. The only way to change it would be to go out of business.