>> THE JOB - URINE TEST >> (Whoever wrote this one down deserves a HUGE pat on the back!) >> >> Like a lot of folks in this state, I have a job. I work, they pay me. I >> pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In >> order to get that paycheck, I am required to pass a random urine test with >> which I have no problem. What I do have a problem with is the distribution >> of my taxes to people who don't have to pass a urine test. >> Shouldn't one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check because I >> have to pass one to earn it for them? Please understand, I have no problem >> with helping people get back on their feet. I do, on the other hand, have a >> problem with helping someone sitting on their A--, doing drugs, while I >> work. . . Can you imagine how much money the state would save if people had >> to pass a urine test to get a public assistance check? >> >> I guess we could title that program, 'Urine or You're Out'. >> >> Pass this along if you agree or simply delete if you don't. Hope you all >> will pass it along, though. . Some thing has to change in this country -- >> and soon!!!!!!! > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Actually, some people do have to subject themselves to this type of draconian barbarism to receive much needed assistance. My mother for one, who suffers from rather extreme fibromyalgia, and is therefore prescribed narcotic medications with extreme side effects including permanent liver damage, permanent kidney damage, lack of cognitive thought process, an increases in blood pressure - oh lookie, they have a drug for her high blood pressure too, and lookie, it has side affects too… Now because my mom is on permanent disability, she cannot work, not even just this weekend for you watching your kids, because if the government finds out, she's out of assistance and on the streets. What's even more draconian is the fact that she had to sign an agreement that she can be randomly drug tested at any time. Fibromyalgia is a disease that affects the connective tissue of the human body. Marijuana is an herb that has been proven in many studies (mostly outside of this country) to dramatically decrease the brains perception of non-localized (and localized) pain, among many other benefits. In short, my mom CAN take narcotic medications that make the pharmaceutical companies, doctors, and politicians rich, have major side affects, and provide minimal relief without a constant increase in dosage. - Remember, this isn't like when you break something and get scrip for two weeks. My mother is expected to live the rest of her life this way, which will be greatly shortened by the medications she is taking. She CAN'T smoke a couple hits of marijuana, supporting a local cottage industry, and relieving her pain without any known or suspected side affects. If she did this, she would be out of pain, and able to get a good nights sleep, unfortunately she might not have a roof to sleep under, or a way to afford food. Due to an agenda established by the Food and Drug Administration and with banners carried forward by those ever two faced and illiterate fundamentalist Christians (if they were literate they would read that the bible actually says god provided all seed bearing plants for the use of man Genesis 1:11) my mother, like millions of other Americans is forced to live in pain for the profit of the already rich. This is not in the spirit of a free country. The writer of this e-mail states "In order to get that paycheck, I am required to pass a random urine test with which I have no problem". Those last six words are actually the most worrisome aspect of this person's point of view. To not have a problem with your employer drug testing you. You do realize this is your employer saying to you, that in no uncertain terms, they don't trust you? How could you ever bee so foolish as to trust someone who doesn't trust you? Would you do that of a person? A corporation is no different than a person. So why do you work for a company that doesn't trust you? Wouldn't you rather work for a company that trusts it's managers to properly assess a person's ability to do their job? Imagine if this was done regardless of what drugs that person may need to do there job. Human quality cannot be quantified. Almost every person holding down a steady job in this country is on drugs. Some legal, some illegal. There are the stimulants; Caffeine being the number one, also popular is Adderall and Cocaine, depending on business class. Then there are the relaxants, such as Paxil, Marijuana, and Kava Kava. What's the important difference in these drugs? Education and Taxation. I say, Educate and establish a tax-rate, don't legislate and incarcerate. The writer of this e-mail also states "Some thing has to change in this country -- and soon!" Trust me things are going to change. This unsustainable joy ride can only go on so long. The change may be inevitable, but how the change will manifest is yet to be determined, as it will only do so at its time of occurrence by the mindsets of those people partaking. Basically, people can start thinking for themselves, and prosper. Or move into a truly cattle-istic (moo) society of non-decisive conformity. Since drugs got me on this rant, I'll use the DARE program as an example of allowed miss-education and it's far reaching effects. The problem with the DARE program is that it teaches kids that all illegal drugs are equally bad. This leads to a problem because of the way in witch it lumps all illegal drugs together. Kids are taught that Marijuana, Cocaine, Speed, Heroin, and whatever else the local area may have to offer, are all "Bad Dangerous Drugs", to quote what my DARE instructor told me. So then when a kid smokes a joint, and gets giggly before raiding the 'fridge, he concludes that "hey, that wasn't so bad after all". At this point it has been proven unquestionably to the kid that he was lied to by the dare instructor. Now, all that was said by the dare instructor has been discredited, including the dangers of other drugs. (Remember, where dealing with a teenage mind set here.) Unfortunately, when this kid is then offered a line of coke, he reflects upon his experience with Marijuana, and what he had been "educated" about Marijuana, and concludes that there is likely little risk with this as well. Unfortunately, Cocaine, or the many other hard drugs that one may encounter DO have serious consequences that will mercilessly destroy life. This is how the DARE program has actually led to an increase in addiction to harder more dangerous drugs. Marijuana has been turned into a "lead-in" drug because of, and only because of, misinformation given out to the youth of America. Imagine if we DAREd to properly educate our youth about the true facts relating to all drug use, the good, the bad, and the ugly; the legal and the illegal. I mean, I'm sorry, my dare instructor told me that Marijuana will make you lose ambition, Michael Phelps has won 14 career Olympic gold medals, I don't think he's lacking ambition. Have you ever heard of the Bowl Hole Series in Sistema Huautla? That was so named because the original explorers smoked a bowl at the top of each drop. I'm sorry, but those cavers weren't losing any ambition there. What we really need is proper education, not more ridiculous policies like what that e-mail suggested. I wouldn't smoke a bowl while doing deep vertical exploration, but then I like to think I hade more drug education the first time I ever tried marijuana than these guys did when they managed to safely pull off that stunt. When you allow for miss-education, when you allow yourself to conform to silly regulations that you know are pointless, you may think it's victimless, but it's not. I wish you people knew what it was like to have to sneak your cancer ridden chemoed-out buddy out of the hospital in the middle of the night; so that he can smoke a little marijuana and therefore get the first good nights sleep since he's been hospitalized. I've done that. The next morning my friend thanked me for he hadn't slept that well in two weeks. When the doctors ran the morning labs, they said since he actually slept all night his white blood cells had tripled and they increased his chance of living from 25% to 50%. It's fucking ridiculous, this is not the type of experience my fore fathers would have wanted me to have. I wish you people knew what it's like to watch your own mother suffer in pain, unwilling to take the marijuana you have for her, for fear of persecution. Marijuana that she wants to smoke because she knows she will get the first good nights sleep in a long time. Think of that next time you take a good nights sleep for granted. Your drug laws are keeping people from getting a good nights sleep tonight. Many of these people are in sever pain like my mother. Some of these people are going to be dead in two weeks anyway, like my friend Jodi, who I never snuck out of the hospital to smoke with. Sincerely, Justin Leigh Shaw --------------------------------------------------------------------- Give this to a friend: ot-subscr...@texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: ot-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: ot-h...@texascavers.com
