Employee drug testing laws were created because of claims that drug and alcohol abuse costs American employers billions of dollars in decreased productivity, increased liability insurance and higher workers" compensation insurance premiums. ... Their insurance premiums will sharply increase. ... The future will be a challenge for companies to identify the right strategy to use when dealing with and implementing a drug testing method and policy. ... I agree with drug testing in the workplace; but the company's policy should be fair and understood by everyone. ...

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In addition, every type of insurance goes up because of drug abuse, including auto, health and homeowners (Belenko). ... Drugs abuse simply has a negative effect on our community as a whole; therefore, we need to work together to create more effective policies. ... Innocent citizens also have to pay higher insurance rates because of the risk of drug dealers damaging property. ... It is hurting our country by causing increased crime, soaring insurance rates, stealing tax dollars, hurting families, and hurting children. ...

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"Since most of the propagandists against drug abuse seek to justify certain repressive policies because of the alleged dangerousness of various drugs, they often falsify the facts about the true pharmalogical properties of the drugs they seek to prohibit." ... Insurance companies would pass on those accident expenses to consumers. ... Amsterdam's officials blame the significant rise in crime on the liberal drug policy. ...

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He states that his "lifelong struggle with mental disease has consistently brought him back to write about drug policy, pharmacology, and mental illness" (266). ... Therefore for those people who do not have the money for the pharmacy or health insurance can get the same results from illegal drugs, and we punish those who do. ...

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In 1968, when American soldiers came home from the Vietnam War addicted to heroin, President Richard Nixon initiated the War on Drugs. More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of Miami's demand for help. In 1981, Miami was the financial and import central for cocaine and marijuana, and the residents were fed up. Thanks to the task force, drug arrests went up by 27%, and drug seizures went up by 50%. With that, the need for prosecutors and judges also rose. ...

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In 1968, when American soldiers came home from the Vietnam War addicted to heroin, President Richard Nixon initiated the War on Drugs. More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of Miami's demand for help. In 1981, Miami was the financial and import central for cocaine and marijuana, and the residents were fed up. Thanks to the task force, drug arrests went up by 27%, and drug seizures went up by 50%. With that, the need for prosecutors and judges also rose. ...

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LIBERTARIANISM Two hundred and twelve years ago thirty nine signatures spoke, gracing its delicate spaceless yet palatial surface with the ease and wave of a single downy bowed quill. Seventeen hundred and eighty seven was the year that the most momentous document in the United States history as well as posterity was created, approved and just two years later instituted as the foundation for a fledging yet promising nation destined for greatness. It was a great concept envisioned by extraordinary men, a system in which the people of the land reign, governing through democratically ...

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