ant, his lawyer, his pilot, his bus driver, his boss, his wife, his children?” Nelson also adds, “I for one have no objection to taking a drug test. Would it be insulting? Hardly! Would a drug test harm my ability to produce? Probably not. Why not? Because I have nothing to hide, be ashamed of or concerned about relative to drug testing” (Nelson 1).There are those out there, however, that feel drug testing has gone too far. One of the more commonly used arguments by opponents of drug testing is that “it is an invasion of privacy and that employers should not be allowed to dictate to workers about off-duty activities” (Grimsley 5). This argument may be a good one, except for the fact that these so called “off-duty activities” are illegal! Also, members of the ACLU ask “whether recreational users of illegal drugs, who are not necessarily drug abusers, should be persecuted and perhaps fired if their drug use is not really a problem for their employers” (Grimsley 5). If it wasn’t a problem for their employer, then the employer would not be giving drug tests now would they. When employers state that they are a drug-free company, it doesn’t mean that the stocks of the company are drug-free, it means that the employees are drug-free, 100% of the time! If an employee doesn’t like it, then fine, he or she can find a job elsewhere, where they and their co-workers are free to use drugs. I for one, am comforted by the fact that myself and my co-workers are working in a drug-free environment, how about you? On one web site, drug users have voiced their outrage towards the policy of drug testing by saying things like “ ‘Drug testing is keeping decent, hard working people out of jobs while alcoholics can run the {explitive} country’” (Grimsley 5). Now there’s a well-reasoned argument if I’ve ever seen one. You wonder if this guy was...
