http://hightimes.com en-us 0.4 By Richard Cusick The drugs you did last night, the drugs you did last week and the drugs you did last New Year’s Eve—they’re all in there, embedded or encoded in your urine, sweat, hair, saliva and blood. Not so long ago, the body was inviolate—a temple the law could not enter—but bad science and contemptible courts have since combined to make drug testing a part of American life, giving rise to a multibillion-dollar-per-year industry that exists solely …More]]> http://hightimes.com/legal/rick/1861?utm_source=rss_section_ Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:46:01 -0500 http://hightimes.com/legal/rick/1861?utm_source=rss_section_ Richard Cusick Story by Rick Cusick On April 13, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released proposed guidelines and standards for hair-, sweat- and saliva-testing for federal employees. These guidelines, if adopted, will be added to existing protocols for urine-testing and give the drug warriors more weapons in their battle against civil liberties. These guidelines will then be used throughout the private sector as the de facto standards for employee drug-testing. Though …More]]> http://hightimes.com/legal/rick/1093?utm_source=rss_section_ Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:02:04 -0400 http://hightimes.com/legal/rick/1093?utm_source=rss_section_ Richard Cusick Story by Richard Cusick Late at night, a small crew of gray-souled technicians quietly scatter throughout your workspace. With small chemical wands, they swab phone cradles, keyboards, faucets, and doorknobs, tag and bag the evidence, then head to the lab, where they test for trace amounts of a variety of drugs. Not surprisingly, marijuana is discovered in the test results. While the presence of an illicit substance on a desktop proves nothing by itself, your company still uses the …More]]> http://hightimes.com/legal/rick/1033?utm_source=rss_section_ Tue, 04 May 2004 11:55:56 -0400 http://hightimes.com/legal/rick/1033?utm_source=rss_section_ Richard Cusick More]]> http://hightimes.com/legal/bean/954?utm_source=rss_section_ Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:59:40 -0500 http://hightimes.com/legal/bean/954?utm_source=rss_section_ Bean More]]> http://hightimes.com/legal/bean/787?utm_source=rss_section_ Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:55:57 -0500 http://hightimes.com/legal/bean/787?utm_source=rss_section_ Bean