Should drug testing be legal for the workplace?

[Heartless Angel]

The posts here that are in support of the Pothead at McDonalds breaking the law are supporting him because it's his right to do so without his employer's knowledge until such time as he is caught, tried, and convicted by a court of law.

It's none of the employers business what you do in your off hours, legal or otherwise, and saying that it's somehow their right to monitor that is absurd.

There's no denying that marijuana is illegal, the idea is that it's your business until you are legally convicted of possession or use or what have you, not firing you because you allegedly did something.

The difference between refusal to hire over a drug test and refusal to hire over a criminal record is that a criminal record shows that a person has ACTUALLY broken the law, and a drug test doesn't mean squat until used as evidence in order to convict.

Pretty ballsy to complain that the employer chooses NOT to turn you in to the police and use that as evidence to convict you, legally speaking they would be within their rights to do so. Personally I'd count my blessings that I'm ONLY being fired rather than arrested when caught in the act of comitting a crime. Call it an implied settlement deal. You get out of my place of business and don't come back, I don't take this to court.

If I caught you stealing from my cash register, but didn't have a security camera or any other witnesses, odds are I would not be able to convict you in a court of law. Would you call me unfair for firing you anyways?

Heartless, even you (and I know this to be true) are smart enough to see that Murder vs. Drug use is a bit of a stretch. Yes they are both illegal but Using drugs is merely a social discord, whereas murder is morally wrong. I mean weigh it out man.

Don't take me the wrong way there, I'm not saying the two are anywhere near equal in severity. But in this argument, majority of arguments in favor come from people who use these substances, therefore breaking the law, whose main reason for their belief is usually their own opinion on the substance. This generrally causes people to completely ignore the fact that it's still illegal; and we'll end up arguing about the legality and morality of weed instead of drug screening.