XPost: uk.legal, uk.politics.drugs   
   From: bliss@sfo.com   
      
   Norman Wells wrote:   
   > Colonel Colt wrote:   
   >> "Paul Hyett"  wrote in message   
   >> news:GqSIwtch4YEKFww3@blueyonder.co.uk...   
   >>> On Mon, 18 May 2009 at 16:32:25, Dr John Watson   
   >>>  wrote in uk.legal :   
   >>>   
   >    
   >>>> Employers are increasingly using drug testing to get rid of staff   
   >>>> without having to make redundancy payouts, as a way of ­cutting   
   >>>> costs during the recession, a ­charity has said.   
   >>>>   
   >>> There is a very easy way of avoiding this though - NOT TAKING DRUGS!   
   >>>   
   >> What business is it of an employer what a member of staff does in his   
   >> off hours.   
   >    
   > Nothing at all.  It's what he's doing in work time that concerns them.   
   > That's why they test in work time, and proceed on the basis of what    
   > drugs and in what concentration are found in his body while that body is    
   > at work.   
   >    
   > It's like drink-driving.  You can still be over the limit the morning    
   > after the night before.  It's not the time you take them that matters,   
   > but the time they're there.   
   >    
   >    
   	That is wholly dependent on the drug used and the drug tested for.LSD    
   for example is eliminated by the body quite rapidly but the effects of    
   ingestion persist for up to  12 hours.   
      
   	Cannabis effects pass in about 4 hours but its inactive metabolites    
   which are the substance tested for are persistent in body fat for up    
   to 30 days after a single use.   The test is always said to be for    
   marijuana but it is not and is only evidence of prior use.   
      
   	Most of the recreational stimulants are not as persistent as   
   cannabis nor is their prior use easily detected,   
      
   	later   
   	bliss   
      
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