Free 420 Drug Tests: Brilliant or Buzzkill?
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2012/04/20 13:00:00
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If you don't know what day it is, this probably won't matter much to you. But for some, April 20 is a lot more than Hitler's birthday. For weed smokers, it's known simply as 420. The high holiday. Legend has it the 420 tradition was planted by a group of teenagers at a Northern California high school in the early '70s, but whatever the origin, it's become the most sacred day on the stoner calendar.
Well, Syracuse police aren't having any of it. Starting yesterday, local police have been handing out hundreds of home drug tests to help parents determine whether their kid is partaking in the festivities. They're calling it the "420 Prevention Project." Of course, the tests aren't going to land the kids in jail if they're administed by parents. The point is to open a dialogue, to let parents know what their kids are into. So what do you say? Are these at-home drug tests brilliant... or just a buzzkill?
Well, Syracuse police aren't having any of it. Starting yesterday, local police have been handing out hundreds of home drug tests to help parents determine whether their kid is partaking in the festivities. They're calling it the "420 Prevention Project." Of course, the tests aren't going to land the kids in jail if they're administed by parents. The point is to open a dialogue, to let parents know what their kids are into. So what do you say? Are these at-home drug tests brilliant... or just a buzzkill?
Top Opinion
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Lucy Sparkles :3 2012/04/20 16:07:10
We made an appointment with a doctor requesting a drug test so we would know for sure . . . and so we could take preventative action.
The doctor never gave him the drug test but 'talked to him' and our son convinced him he was not doing drugs. One unsuccessful suicide attempt later we found out he had been doing drugs . . . and we were able to get him the help he needed.
It allows paretns to confirm drug use rather than assume so they can work out the problems before a child get's into seriously trouble.
For job seekers, this one is for you, take this before you go to the job interview. In many careers, a failed drug test will be a part of your permanent record (i.e drivers)
Lets keep the government away from our kids, they are in the family and minds of our society too much, gov this and gov that; lets police our own...Starting with our example! There is nothing wrong with the weed; it is media and mean people that made it that way; look in the mirror for someone to argue with, look behind your mirror, how many pharma pill you taking? Wait till they start into giving you one for pain and one to make the pain of that pain go away and the blue one helps the green one and so and so forth! Brain washed people, do not read the constitution... Ignorant people fall for slavery!
If the police made this decision on their own to use public funds then I would be adamantly opposed but if a local community decides that buying in bulk and then distributing a product is what they want the police to do then more power to them. They have the right to govern their community however they choose; it is the very definition of "Liberty." If the minority doesn't like it, they can move elsewhere.