Should drug testing be legal for the workplace?

[Sasquatch]

Whoever thinks someone can't do anything cause they are stoned or high is ignorant.

Have you honestly never seen some bumbling stoner try to do something intricate? Performance is diminished, depending on the drug and the amount. Similar to alcohol -- drink one or two beers, and your performance won't diminish any noticeable amount. Hell, depending on what you're doing, performance might actually improve. But drink ten or twelve, and of course you won't do as well.

That is getting into the realm of one's employer extending control of an employee into what is their time, and their time can be spent doing whatever the hell they want.

And the employee can choose to quit if they don't like it. Nobody is forcing them to work there. Besides, you've also got to factor in the appearance of the company. If a company is known to employ drunks and druggies -- even if they aren't drunk or drugged while working -- their reputation will take a hit.

I disagree with it, because if I want to get high on a weekend, that should be my right.

Except it's not -- whether you think it should be or not. You're just bitching about an employer not wanting you to do something that's already against the law.

But if you want to consider it as a "right", you've also got to consider the employers' right to fire you. It's also my right to cuss like a sailor, but I'd be a moron if I didn't expect to get fired from most jobs for screaming obscenities at work.

It's almost like saying that to avoid sexual harassment, or screen for some potential (which is irrelevant to any job you do) your web history for the last 90 days should be checked at random, just to make sure you weren't looking at porn, or anything sexist or mysoginistic. It's a poor analogy, but the concept is similar.

It's an extremely poor analogy, considering the fact that porn isn't illegal. They might frown upon you looking at porn while at work, in which case most places will simply block inappropriate websites. And they can "block you" from doing drugs while at work, but not at home, just like looking at porn -- but again, the difference is that looking at porn isn't against the law and won't affect your work performance.

And sasquatch, unless the person shows up drunk to their drug test, or got hammered the night before, it's unlikely that any large amount of alcohol would show up that would label someone as a raging alcoholic.

It doesn't take a test -- or a genius -- to figure out when somebody's an alcoholic.

People can smoke, snort, and drink casually as well. It's not like everyone who gets high has some massive habit that'll result in them stealing from the company.

Of course -- druggies are well-known for their resistance to addiction and their hesitance towards breaking laws, right?

Amen. If I don't want to hire black people because the sight of them disgusts me, that's my business.

Nice try. That would fall under race/religion/gender/national origin -- and discrimination by those actually is illegal. So no, it's absolutely nothing like refusing to hire a certain color of applicant. You're honestly trying to compare a company legally refusing to hire a criminal to a company illegally refusing to hire a person of a specific race. Keep reaching.