Deal with it. Life ain't fair. Act like a semi-responsible adult, taking a bloody piss test isn't a big deal by any stretch of the mind.
Deal with it. Life ain't fair. Act like a semi-responsible adult, reporting traitors to the Great Leader isn't a big deal by any stretch of the mind.
How is it the school's business who does drugs and who doesn't?
It is a public institution. It has whatever authority it is given by the state, and I think it a good thing. You want to talk about “under pain of potentially ruining the rest of someone’s life”? Drugs will do that worse than flunking out of school.
I know people at my school who practically live stoned 24/7 without it causing them to flunk out of anything. That's not even touching the huge number of them that smoke tobacco or drink alcohol, which are only prohibited to them because of age limitations.
The horrible nightmare of "Drugs" (Brought to you by the people who invented the capital-T "Terrorists"), as much as the state-sponsored PSAs would like you not to believe, have widely varying effects that may or may not cripple your social life.
And frankly, even if their PSAs were true, it still wouldn't be a justification. Recreational drug use is a personal decision, with benefits and consequences tacked on to whomever decides to engage in it. That's on their head, not the state's. The state needs to learn some personal boundaries and back the fuck off.
Oh, and by the way, the vast majority of students use substances illegally. I hope you can sleep at night knowing that these policies are pointed at somewhere between 40-95% of the students in the country, and that if they get caught by it they'll likely be condemned to poverty for the rest of their lives.