War on Drugs + War on Poverty = War on the poor

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Vol8188 said:
I disagree. Most jobs don't drug test, unless there is a safety issue involved.
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Not sure what jobs you've worked at. Every job I've ever had did a piss test, including my janitorial work at an Ace Hardware my FR year in college. It's gets dangerous around there sometimes.

My dad officiates rec league basketball on the side and the city makes him take a piss test every year before the season starts up. Guess they're afraid he might injure someone if he blows his whistle too loud or gets too animated with his block/charge calls.
 
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bowlinggreenvol said:
Not sure what jobs you've worked at. Every job I've ever had did a piss test, including my janitorial work at an Ace Hardware my FR year in college. It's gets dangerous around there sometimes.

My dad officiates rec league basketball on the side and the city makes him take a piss test every year before the season starts up. Guess they're afraid he might injure someone if he blows his whistle too loud or gets too animated with his block/charge calls.
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I think he means ransoms
 
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OrangeWayOfLife said:
I think he means ransoms
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The point he responded to said it would be hard to get a job cause a prospective employee would have to pass a drug test. Then he said most companies no longer drug test. I took that to mean, a drug test upon hiring, but if he meant random then I agree, a lot of companies don't.
 
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bowlinggreenvol said:
Not sure what jobs you've worked at. Every job I've ever had did a piss test, including my janitorial work at an Ace Hardware my FR year in college. It's gets dangerous around there sometimes.

My dad officiates rec league basketball on the side and the city makes him take a piss test every year before the season starts up. Guess they're afraid he might injure someone if he blows his whistle too loud or gets too animated with his block/charge calls.
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Most jobs do them prior to hiring, but random drug tests are rare.
 
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Most companies that have "safety related positions" have mandatory random screenings. i.e. they have a pool of employees that fall into this category and a certain number, randomly selected get the pee cup call every year.
 
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Vol8188 said:
Most jobs do them prior to hiring, but random drug tests are rare.
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Maybe rare from an individual's POV, but not rare at all at the company as a whole. I probably have somebody on my crew at least once a month that gets popped for a drug or breath test.
 
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jp1 said:
Never said that it did. However, there is a decent amount of research out there about drug cross sensitization making it likely. One could also argue that a person that smokes pot are already vulnerable to other things and they just start with pot because its easy to obtain.
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Please explain cross sensitization.
 
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apevol said:
Please explain cross sensitization.
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My bad ape just saw your post. Basically the idea of cross sensitization*is the enhancement of the effects of*drugs of abuse*following the use of another drug. This occurs through dopamine neurotransmission. For instance, if someone chronically abuses morphine then it is suspected that this produces incremental neuroadaptations in this neural system, rendering it increasingly and perhaps permanently, sensitized to other drugs and drug-associated stimuli. This is a big thing when it comes to trying to beat drug addiction.

Im not up on all of the research, but I know it has been shown with THC in lab animals. Im unsure if they have done so in humans or not. I know that this theory has been shown in humans with other drugs.
 
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jp1 said:
My bad ape just saw your post. Basically the idea of cross sensitization*is the enhancement of the effects of*drugs of abuse*following the use of another drug. This occurs through dopamine neurotransmission. For instance, if someone chronically abuses morphine then it is suspected that this produces incremental neuroadaptations in this neural system, rendering it increasingly and perhaps permanently, sensitized to other drugs and drug-associated stimuli. This is a big thing when it comes to trying to beat drug addiction.

Im not up on all of the research, but I know it has been shown with THC in lab animals. Im unsure if they have done so in humans or not. I know that this theory has been shown in humans with other drugs.
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"The data suggests that repeated thc treatment is less likely to produce behavioral sensitization than other drugs of abuse"

Lack of behavioral sensitization after repeated exposure to THC in mice and comparison to methamphetamine

But if what you were saying was actually true (it's not), then both sex and chocolate would be gateway drugs. Since both would lead to a diminished response from dopamine transmitters.
 
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jp1 said:
My bad ape just saw your post. Basically the idea of cross sensitization*is the enhancement of the effects of*drugs of abuse*following the use of another drug. This occurs through dopamine neurotransmission. For instance, if someone chronically abuses morphine then it is suspected that this produces incremental neuroadaptations in this neural system, rendering it increasingly and perhaps permanently, sensitized to other drugs and drug-associated stimuli. This is a big thing when it comes to trying to beat drug addiction.

Im not up on all of the research, but I know it has been shown with THC in lab animals. Im unsure if they have done so in humans or not. I know that this theory has been shown in humans with other drugs.
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I haven't tried in quite a while, but for the last 3-4 years I've been unable to enjoy smoking marijuana. I think harder drugs screwed my synapses or some mumbo jumbo. Every time i'd try to smoke it felt like a bad acid trip
 
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^^^^

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