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A 5 page overview of the issues surrounding mandatory drug testing in certain occupations. This paper reviews several of the laws pertaining to the issue, concluding that the federal law allowing drug testing for those in critical positions in defense and transportation is necessary. Equally necessary, however, is mandatory testing in the medical profession, law
enforcement, and any other occupation where human lives are at stake. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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more and more of an expectation. The necessity of such testing is obvious at least in some regards. Employers operate under the perception that employees that are under the
influence of drugs can not perform their jobs as effectively as those that are not. Just as important of a consideration, of course, is workplace safety. Employees that
are using drugs are likely to have more accidents and to place both themselves and their fellow workers in danger. At the same time, however, drug testing is considered
a violation of privacy by many. The debate that emerges is complex to say the least. The debate surrounding employee
drug testing becomes particularly complicated when we consider the varying positions taken on drug testing by states, private entities, and the federal government itself. Interestingly, no federal law exists
that: "specifically authorizes drug testing of employees, except for certain workers in the defense and
transportation industries" (Guerin, 2004). Individual states, however, have enacted certain laws on their own which
sometimes provide for testing in a much wider arena. Consider Idaho as an example. Idaho is encountering a unique problem in that two of her neighbor states and
nine states in the U.S. as a whole (specifically Oregon, Washington, California, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, and Nevada) have passed laws that allow their residents to grow and use
marijuana for medical reasons. Marijuana is considered a Schedule I drug under federal law. While the federal government specifically penalizes the growth and use of marijuana under the
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