I have a problem with companies like Alaska doing nicotine checks. I smoke an occasional cigarette when I'm mad. I had one today, and I had one the 4th of December. I'm not a regular smoker, and I might go through a pack a year. Having that disqualify me for a job just doesn't seem right.... but then again - companies have the right to do as they please. I also don't really like hair tests as I don't like people to get down to my nitty gritty business. I had surgery less than 90 days ago, so if someone did a hair test today, opiates would show up for my pain medicine I was on, and even though I haven't taken them in 60 days or so, I'd still have some 'splaining to do!
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I don't have a really big problem with marijuana. I don't smoke it (Although I have admittedly done so when I was in my teens), won't smoke it and I do not participate in any other drug usage. Heck I don't even really drink, and I CERTAINLY do not drink and drive. The reason I don't care about weed is that if a person wants to smoke it, and not hurt anyone (not drive, fly, etc.) then I don't really care, as long as it doesn't effect me or anyone else negatively. I'm all for individual freedoms. Heck I say make it legal and tax the crap out of it, and reduce some of our other taxes!!! DOT could still make it illegal to use it while employed by a transportation sensitive job, and the government could create laws similar to current DUI laws. I don't know... I don't care one way or the other as it doesn't effect me now since I don't use it, and my friends don't either.
Originally Posted by
pokey9554
From my two seconds of research, I've found that a typical hair follicle provides a drug use history of 90 days, not the entire life history of the hair owner.
That's correct sir!