By Phillip Smith Last year, Utah joined the handful of states that have passed laws mandating drug tests for people seeking welfare benefits. To avoid
By Tom Angell Does the State of Florida care if you have marijuana in your system or not? State prosecutors in the George Zimmerman murder
By Phillip Smith Last year, the Oklahoma legislature passed and Gov. Mary Fallin (R) signed into law a bill mandating drug screening for welfare applicants.
By Dan Viets, J.D., SMCR Board Chair A closely-watched lawsuit challenging the practice of drug testing all students who are admitted to a public college
Michigan Public Radio (MPR) reporter Jake Neher broadcast a report on a House bill requiring suspicion-based testing for drug use among welfare recipients. Jamie Lowell
By Phillip Smith The Texas legislature last week approved a bill that would require some applicants for unemployment benefits to undergo drug testing, but another
A new study conducted at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research has found that random drug testing in schools – something 28% of American students
Despite growing public support for marijuana legalization, drug warriors are seeking to tighten the screws on consumers by imposing new and tougher drug testing rules
By Phillip Smith For the second time, a Missouri federal district court judge has granted a preliminary injunction blocking Linn State Technical College from drug testing all
A common refrain in politics is that if you want to find the root cause of certain policies or stances, simply follow the money. Last week, U.S.
New statistics claim massive rise in pre-employment drug test positives, when in fact testing technology has just gotten harder to fool.
By Phillip Smith, StopTheDrugWar.Org The Kansas Senate approved a bill requiring welfare and unemployment benefits recipients to undergo drug tests if there is “reasonable suspicion”
Radical Russ Belville gives his insight into why drug testing as a condition to receive welfare is idiotic.
By one vote, the state Senate today voted down a bill to drug-test some welfare recipients. The bill, from Sen. Bill Carrico, R-Grayson, would have
By “Radical” Russ Belville Letting The Days Go By… Let The Water Hold Me Down… Letting The Days Go By… Water Flowing Underground Into The
Yet Another Way Drug Testing Fails By Paul Armentano Commercially available baby soaps and other wash products that are commonly used with newborns may yield
By Paul Armentano “[Government] certified drug testing laboratories have significant reliability problems and that the government’s assurances that false positive test results are a thing
Americans Will Be Forced to Pay for the Violation of their Own Constitutional Rights Congress Friday approved a deal which will broadly expand drug testing.
By Phillip Smith Awash in a whirlpool of proposals to subject welfare recipients to drug tests, legislators in two states, Missouri and Tennessee, are proposing
By Steve Elliott of Toke of the Town Just because you’re seven feet tall doesn’t have to mean you can’t get higher. The National Basketball
By Phillip Smith Lawmakers in Alabama are pushing the envelope on the drug testing of people who receive public benefits. While legislators in a number
Medical marijuana and drug testing in the work place had been receiving significant amount of publicity in the last few years. A crucial case law
by Phillip Smith There will be no random drug testing of Hawaii public school teachers. A battle that began in 2007 came to a quiet
The chairman of the Arizona Corporation Commission on Tuesday asked fellow commissioners to submit to drug tests because a small amount of marijuana was found
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