[geeks] This bogles my mind

[Geoff Reed]

At 10:03 AM 6/28/01 +0100, you wrote:
>How about the fact that prescription drugs can be detected with those tests?
>Your employer has no right to know about such things if they have no bearing
>on your ability to do your job.  Then there's the issue that if you smoke a
>joint on Friday evening after work it ain't going to affect your ability to
>do your job come Monday morning.  Then there's the danger of false positives
>(often caused by those prescription drugs which your employer has no right
>to know about, but also by things like contamination of the test, second-
>hand smoke, some food additives etc).
Of course if you eat poppyseed muffins it will turn up positive for Opium, 
and I've been told that there are some tests that show a positive for 
marajuana if you use hempseed flour (which has lots of fiber but no real 
quantity of thc in it)