Items in uk.rec.drugs.cannabis

Subject:Re: Doubts over school drug testing
Date:Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:51:13 -0000
From:"<==TNT==>" <go@way.com>
Newsgroups:uk.rec.drugs.cannabis
In news:1109446587.4b32645128ac2d6a4690c384896b75de@teranews,
wotsayyou <somewhere@somewhere.com> wrote:
> "Dan" <axck@23fj9x.com> wrote in message
> news:x_GdnXyNybD8JYHfRVnyjA@pipex.net...
>> Great Dane wrote:
>>> The tests had worked as a deterrent and reduced the level of peer
>>> pressure to take drugs, he added.
>>
>> My current place of work does random drug tests, and from personal
>> experience, it does act as a deterrent. I haven't smoked for a while
>> purely due to the fact that there is a risk of losing my job.
>>
>> I personally see it as not only an invasion of privacy, but a
>> completely ineffective way to combat the truly addictive drugs,
>> which could really affect a person at work. The fact detection times
>> vary so much further adds to my frustration - you could have one
>> joint on a Friday night, and a week or two later be back at work,
>> and still potentially test positive. d.
>
>
> The day my employers start drug testing is the day I resign.
>
> Hell, no actually the day they start drug testing is the day I start
> smoking grass again so that if I do test positive and they sack me,
> I'm gonna sue them for wrongful dismissal.
>
> --
> Wotsayyou

Anyone know what the position would be if you went on holiday to Amsterdam 
and smoked yourself stupid and then returned to your work and were pulled in 
for a drug test? Could they stick a disciplinary on you despite the fact you 
had broken no law?