cannabisnews.com: Champion of Clean Living or Power Mad Health Nazi?





Champion of Clean Living or Power Mad Health Nazi?
Posted by FoM on January 07, 1999 at 10:30:24 PT

Spokane For many, many jobs -- private as well as public -- you might as well not apply if you use certain substances that show up in drug tests.
Washington Secretary of State Ralph Munro would like to add a substance to the list, at least for his office. The substance is tobacco.The difference -- and this fact is not lost on Munro -- is that marijuana, cocaine and other substances that drug tests are designed to detect are illegal. Tobacco isn't.Munro would like the Legislature to authorize state agencies to make smokers ineligible for employment. Munro, who already offers his workers incentives to quit smoking, says his plan would send an added message to young people about the foolishness of lighting up. Maybe they would be deterred from starting, he reasons.That's a laudable purpose. But critics of his plan are asking how and why he could turn away capable job applicants based on private behavior that has no relationship to the job and that the lawmakers have seen unfit to criminalize.
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