Florida Gov. Rick Scott drug testing welfare recipients fail

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Originally Posted by Dahoss

Most drug tests nowadays, especially those in which you have to take for employment purposes are urine tests. They are extremely easy to pass, especially when you know the date in which you have to take them.

Lori mentioned urine tests, not all tests, so I'm not sure why the troll decided to pick apart that statement, but oh well.

I actually don't think this is the worst idea ever, but there are flaws to it, especially if you think marijuana should be legal. If you're using your welfare money to buy crack or meth...yeah that's a problem. But if you really do require assistance, use the assistance responsibly and take a puff or 2 off a joint at a party I don't see what the big deal is.

Try passing a urine test for marijuana, meth, coke after "not doing drugs for 1 day".

As as factual aside - yeah, I'm just being a troll to mention "facts" - Florida requires hair and blood testing, too, aside from urine.

But hey, Lori knows best.

So it looks like it simply could be true that poor families are not major drug addicts as alleged by Scott, and even less of them than usual in the normal population are drug addicts because they, you know, can't afford to buy drugs when they have nothing and are applying for family welfare.

Radical idea to some here.

Or, it could be that 98% of welfare recipients are smart enough to beat a drug test, while only 91% of the general population are smart enough to figure that out.

Any way, no matter the drug test results, we all still know that welfare recipients use our tax money for drugs!