Urine test

[jumpy]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

doing drugs, while I
work

Yup, there's a good many of us who can get along just fine without any interference from the state like this. As a civilian I say 'balls!' to any government agency who deems it appropriate to test me to see what I do in my spare time, be it the amount of alcohol I consume or what I sometimes choose to smoke.

The state might well save money from some, but the number of homeless and destitute people would sky-rocket as would associated levels of crime and disorder.
Unless the state decides to murder anyone with a drug addiction, there's always going to be a problem with this. Alternatively, they could try and remove the black-market source of drugs like heroin etc and have the state supply it to those hopeless addicts, in order to stop them stealing and mugging to feed their addiction. But nothing so compassionate or sensible would pass the lips of a politician, even one appraised of all the facts. Too much like risking their reputation - of course they think ideas like ID cards and such like are great and wasting billions of taxpayers money of failed wars, failed economic handouts, failed billions of aid to countries with perpetual civil war and poverty and famine, failed stock-market bailouts of national financial institutions... the list of stuff that costs more than welfare spending goes on and on and on and on.