Why Drug Testing is an absolute waste of money and resources!

I think I've harped on enough about the total lack of evidence showing marijuana is a risk to anyone but the user and even then that is debatable.

So I'll take another track just to highlight the idiots running safety in this country and accross the world.

In Vietnam there were over 60 different plants that soldiers could smoke or ingest to give them a high and take their minds off the hell on earth they were in, in fact if you look hard enough you will find governments importing certain drugs for the soldiers in Vietnam.

And as we see with olympians and the like, whenever they come up with a new test for a certain drug, the pharmacutical producers just design a new undetectable drug.

So what will happen with drug testing for only a minute number of drugs? People will just turn to more dangerous products, over the one's they know are relatively safe, and to prove a point I will list a few:

• Opium is one of the biggest money spinners for the pharmacutical companies but for someone to self prescribe they will be arrested and charged but what about Lettuce? Common garden lettuce can have an opium like quality!!!! The milky juice is best collected when the lettuce is in flower, the juice is then dried in the sun. You can ingest or smoke the residue. Warning can be extremely dangerous if used intravenously!!!
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• Marijuana is one of the safest drugs on this planet with some of the widest variety of benefits for illness but as the pharmacutical companies and their buddies in politics need to make profits it is also one of the most attacked to protect those profits! But a substitute is Lions Tail (Leonotis Leonuris clik on link to read reviews) When smoked lions tail gives one short lasting extroverted exuberance and a positive high. Some marijuana users use lions tail with thier mix for it's positive less dopey effect. Using the root for a cup of tea gives a hypnotic like focuss especially when watching television. It is regarded even today as a cannabis, and a panacea for illness such as, asthma, coughs, colds, diabtes, diarrhoea, fever, skin diseases, menstruation, liver problems and worms.
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• Madagascar Periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) is grown throughout the world as an ornamental plant and has historically been used to treat an assortment of disease, with over 70 healing alkaliods. The leaf can be smoked for euphoric and psychotropic effects. Warning this plant is very dangerous when ingested or smoked too often. Causes immediate reduction of the white corpuscle. Long term use will cause itching and burning skin, hair loss, nausea, ataxia and degeneration of muscle tissue.
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• Banana, the dried pith (underskin of the banana peel) is reported to have an effect and is called mellow yellow, the smoking of banana pith seems to give a mild body stone. Others say it just gives you a headache.
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• Blue Lotus (Numphaea Caerulea) gives a relaxed cannabis opium like body stone. The mind remains clear but zones out, it has the dream state of opium and provides a deep sleep afterwards. Should not be mixed with alcohol or used when driving or operating machinery.
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• Catnip (Nepeta Cataria) gives a mild euphoria, unfortunately it is more potent mixed with tobacco. Catnip helps you get higher if used with marijuana (wouldn't recommend with hydroponic cannabis) I would list all the medical uses for catnip but it would take too long, just say it is has been shown to be helpful with over 46 illnesses. Precautions it does make some cats really horny but doesn't work for humans.
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• Motherwort (Leonorus sibinricus) Known as the herb of life, or the merrie cheerful herb. Gives a mild high and short lasting stone, know in the Phillipines as false marijuana. It is very useful for menstrual periods, cramps and after birth but also over a dozen other illneses.
  

I have a list of over 50 naturally occuring plants that give a high of some sort but also have many medical benefits; even the seeds from the nutmeg tree for crying out loud.

But as we have seen prohibition of certain plants and drugs just raises there profile and encourages more to use them, Marijuana being a great example and alcohol being the other.

So as a safety profession we are actually advertising the drugs we test for and making them even more popular than they already were. Marijuana is useful for over 50 illnesses especially pain related and for illnesses where treatment causes nausea and lack of appetite eg, cancer and MS.

The best form of protection for people against drugs is education as prohibition makes them more popular but as there is no evidence of any sustaintiated risks with marijuana the pharmacutical companies would loose profits with people turning away from prescription morphine, valium, enbrel and the like and the polititians wouldn't get their kick backs for protecting those profits and it seems the safety profession is a bunch of dopey sheep that can't research for themselves.

Oh that's right the Safety Institute of Australia can't research because they can't even be bothered getting an education and proving their competence.

Regards
Daniel