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endo · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Location: Seoul...my home

I don't mind them testing for drugs as long as it's not for weed.

schrooms, X, and lsd, and coke too. and opium and DMT. and crack!

Everything else is okay.

Tokki1 · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 8:53 am Post subject:

I'm very disappointed with the poll results Sad

Homer · Guest

Tokki1 · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 9:38 am Post subject:

I would have thought everyone would be against mandatory drug testing. I do not understand why anyone would be for it.

cubanlord · Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Location: In Japan!

I must say, it's neck and neck with these poll results.

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

jaderedux · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Lurking outside Seoul

Young FRANKenstein · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 4:18 pm Post subject:

TheUrbanMyth · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Location: Retired

Homer · Guest

Tokki...Jaderedux said it best.

When you have been around the block...you see a logic behind testing.

Heck, I do not want a person on drugs teaching my son...thats for sure. I have nothing against someone who uses recreational drugs if his use does not have an impact on my life.

A person who will be responsible for teaching children should be clean. So, test away.

Pyongshin Sangja · Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Location: I love baby!

bosintang · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 6:20 pm Post subject:

It's not the test for drugs that bothers me, it's the lack of privacy and bad organisation employers in this country are notorious for that would scare me.

I don't use drugs in Korea, but I would still refuse to take a drug test here. Quite simply, I don't trust Korean employers competence.

mawz · Joined: 13 Apr 2007

i'm reading this thread to see what i can get away with on my 3-week mental holiday. i'll just stay clean as a whistle, *sigh* That said, if parents knew how evil some of their kids were, maybe hagwons would start handing out joints for the weekends...well, before they call you in to work unpaid OT.

crazy_arcade · Joined: 05 Nov 2006

If anything, the world needs to go further and further away from the American stance towards drugs. It's been proven time and time again to be a failure. Second, Florida can go *beep* itself.

Third, many people equate a puff on the joint to nothing different than a glass of wine. Look at any modern research and you'll see that there is a incredible difference between marijuana and hard drugs. It's absolutely astounding what people still believe about pot.

Most prescription drugs have much more damaging effects than pot does. However, those are controlled by multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical companies that have very effective government lobbyists.

Next, the reason for all of the crime due to hard drugs is not due to the drugs themselves but rather the enforcement which leads to crime. Take away the enforcement and the crime goes away. Make it legal and unprofitbale for gangsters and safe for users. Do you think the rates of hard drug use will go up? Controlled studies in Amsterdam show a no.

Personally, I wouldn't want my childrens' teacher to be addicted to crack, or meth, or coke. However, I would be very dissappointed if they had a teacher who didn't at least experiment with pot with an open mind when they were younger. I was a casual pot smoker before and I experimented with magic mushrooms, speed, and exctasy a bit. I think a strong person is someone who can experiment and have the experience, yet have the self-control to not allow it to consume their life. I hope my children have a teacher like this.

Now as far as Korea is concerned. I'm against random drug tests. I'm against any action that lumps the innocent in with the guilty and believe it to be one step away from fascism.

As for smoking in Korea I think that's a big no-no. Only because of the possible repurcussions and what that would do to my career. The last thing I need is an interview with a school district in Canada and them asking me, "Why were you deported from South Korea?"