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Missouri To Allow Welfare Recipients to Use Medical Marijuana
Missourians who receive certain welfare benefits can use medical cannabis with no repercussions.
October 3, 2019 No Comments
Missourians who receive certain welfare benefits can use medical cannabis with no repercussions.
Virtually every day that I am on Facebook, I see memes calling for drug testing for welfare recipients. It’s something that conservatives have called for
Arbitrary, mandatory drug testing is wrong, no matter when such a policy is applied. That includes mandatory drug testing for welfare applicants. Eleven states have
Apparently the United States House of Representatives thinks there is an epidemic of people using welfare money to buy recreational marijuana. I personally haven’t heard
By Phillip Smith In a ruling out of Orlando Tuesday, US District Court Judge Mary Scriven permanently halted enforcement of Florida’s suspicionless drug testing of
By Phillip Smith North Carolina’s Republican Gov. Pat McCrory last month vetoed a welfare drug testing bill championed by his own party in the legislature, saying it
By Phillip Smith North Carolina Gov. Robert McCrory (R) Thursday vetoed a welfare drug testing bill pushed through the legislature by his Republican colleagues. Drug
By Phillip Smith A bill that would require public benefits recipients to take a drug test upon suspicion they are using drugs passed won final
By Phillip Smith The Republican-controlled Michigan House Friday approved a bill that would allow for the suspicion-based drug testing of welfare recipients. The bill, House Bill
By Phillip Smith A bill that would require public benefits recipients to take a drug test upon suspicion they are using drugs passed the state
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 Phillip Smith Last year, the Oklahoma legislature passed and Gov. Mary Fallin (R) signed into law a bill mandating drug screening for welfare applicants.
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, StopTheDrugWar.Org Bills that would force welfare applicants and recipients to undergo drug testing are moving in the state legislatures in Austin and
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 Phillip Smith, StopTheDrugWar.Org The Republican-controlled Indiana House voted overwhelmingly Monday to approve a “reasonable suspicion” drug testing bill for welfare recipients. House Bill 1483 advanced to the
By Phillip Smith, StopTheDrugWar.Org The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta Tuesday upheld a preliminary injunction blocking Florida’s 2011 law requiring welfare applicants to
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 Phillip Smith With states facing severe budget pressures, bills to require drug testing to apply for or receive public benefits — welfare, unemployment benefits,
By Phillip Smith Florida welfare applicants and recipients, mostly women with children, will now have to undergo drug tests at their own expense to receive
By Phillip Smith A Missouri bill that mandates the drug testing of welfare recipients and applicants if case workers have “reasonable suspicion” they are using
By Phillip Smith Bills that would require new applicants for temporary welfare assistance to undergo suspicionless drug tests–and pay for them themselves–are advancing in