Drug Testing Kids a Bad Idea, Doctors Say

I hope the Pee-Police are listening.

CHICAGO - Subjecting children to drug testing is usually a bad idea for a host of reasons, including often inaccurate results and loss of the child’s trust, a leading pediatricians’ group said on Monday.

Increasingly, schools are embarking on drug testing, particularly of student-athletes, following a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared the practice legal.

It was a great article, bringing up the same points that Educators for Sensible Drug Policy bring up about drug-testing. They mentioned the false positives, the climate of distrust and the fact that drug tests miss a lot of substances. Marijuana is the only drug that can be detected many days after ingestion. There are also many ways to beat a drug test. I will forgive them for failing to mention the high cost of drug-testing. But just this once.

There is also a poll. Nobody on the series of tubes can resist a poll!