Illegal Drugs | Drug Testing Improves the Workplace

How big is America’s drug problem? Enormous. The U.S. government reports that 9.7 million Americans used marijuana and 1.9 million used cocaine in the last month. Today, drugs oftentimes are stronger (marijuana harvested recently in northern California had 22 times the THC content of late ’60s marijuana, THC being the psychoactive ingredient in the drug), cheaper (a “hit” of crack is still available for as little as $5 in many cities), and more lethal (record numbers of overdoses and medical emergencies in recent years) than ever before. Perhaps most...

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