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Professionals Need the Same Standards as Amateurs: A Division-1 College Baseball Player Speaks Out

Nicholas Friar | Posted 05.15.2013 | Sports
Nicholas Friar

The NCAA preaches ethics to its athletes because they are sending the message that the sport you play is greater than any individual, and that we are expected to maintain integrity for the game.

Washington Woman: I Was Fired For Second-Hand Pot Exposure

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.01.2013 | Politics

Cheryl Hale's 16-year career at a Washington state retail store came to an end about a year and a half ago when an on-the-job injury forced her to sub...

Nick Wing

GOP Governor Suggests Drug Abuse Driving Unemployment

HuffingtonPost.com | Nick Wing | Posted 04.30.2013 | Politics

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) on Monday addressed some worrisome employment figures in the state's March jobs report, saying that job applicants w...

John Celock

Copycat Drug Testing Bills Proliferate In The States

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 04.11.2013 | Politics

Republicans from coast to coast this year have sought to make the poor and jobless pee in cups to prove they're not on drugs, and in several states th...

Supporter Of Drug Testing Welfare Recipients Charged In DUI

The Huffington Post | Preston Maddock | Posted 04.10.2013 | Politics

A Georgia state lawmaker who supported legislation to drug test welfare recipients was arrested last week, suspected of driving under the influence, R...

State Moves Forward On Unemployment Drug Testing Bill

Reuters | Posted 04.09.2013 | Politics

By Suzi Parker LITTLE ROCK, Ark, April 8 (Reuters) - The Republican-led Arkansas state Senate approved a measure on Monday that would ...

Athletes Cheat and Get Punished, But Prosecutors Cheat and Get Promoted

Bennett L. Gershman | Posted 04.04.2013 | Crime
Bennett L. Gershman

Given that prosecutors occupy a special "quasi-judicial" function, it would seem that a special disciplinary body should be created to investigate misconduct by prosecutors similar to the special disciplinary bodies that investigate the misconduct of judges.

John Celock

State One Step Closer To Drug Testing Applicants, Lawmakers

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.27.2013 | Politics

The Republican-controlled Kansas House of Representatives on Tuesday approved legislation that would require drug testing for members of the state Leg...

Federal Judge Orders College To Stop Drug Testing Students

AP | ALAN SCHER ZAGIER | Posted 03.22.2013 | College

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- A federal judge on Friday again blocked efforts by a central Missouri technical college to drug-test its students, a policy challenge...

WATCH: 'High Times' Publisher Shows How To Pass A Drug Test

HuffPost Live | Posted 03.13.2013 | HuffPost Live 321

Ahmed is joined by High Times Magazine's Associate Publisher Richard Cusick, who demonstrates how to successfully pass a urine test....

Welfare Drug Testing Bill Introduced In Congress

The Huffington Post | Arthur Delaney | Posted 03.05.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- To fight the specter of poor people spending taxpayer money on drugs, a Republican congressman has reintroduced legislation to make welf...

Arthur Delaney

State Advances Plan To Drug Test Welfare Applicants, Public Officials

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 03.01.2013 | Politics

The Kansas state Senate on Thursday passed a bill to require applicants for welfare and unemployment benefits to undergo drug tests, as well as certai...

Arthur Delaney

Another Defeat For Rick Scott's Drug Testing Dreams

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.20.2013 | Politics

A federal appeals court upheld a lower court's injunction on Tuesday against Florida's effort to make welfare applicants pee in cups to prove they're ...

Let's Stop the Pretense of Drug Testing of Professional Athletes

Lorie Eber | Posted 04.24.2013 | Fifty
Lorie Eber

We have a tradition of treating players like children, even while we pay them millions of dollars for their skills, perhaps because they make their living competing in games we played as kids.

Arthur Delaney

Georgia Drug-Testing Scheme Nabs Just One Person

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 02.07.2013 | Politics

For the past year, the Georgia Department of Labor has encouraged Georgia businesses to alert the agency if a job applicant fails a drug test, so tha...

The Missing Link From Every Jobless Drug Testing Proposal

The Huffington Post | Arthur Delaney | Posted 01.29.2013 | Politics

Every proposal to make unemployed people pee in cups in order to receive benefits, it seems, follows the same pattern: Businesses complain of job appl...

Arthur Delaney

Another State Takes Up Bill To Drug Test The Jobless

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 01.28.2013 | Politics

Arkansas lawmakers are debating a proposal to make unemployed people pee in cups to prove they're not on drugs in order to qualify for benefits. St...

John Celock

‘Ultraconservative Utopia' Would Include Drug Testing The Poor & Unemployed

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 01.25.2013 | Politics

Lawmakers seeking to abolish income taxes and stymie unions in Kansas think it might also be worthwhile to make the poor and unemployed pee in cups to...

Chelsea Kiene

New Hampshire GOP: Want Welfare? Take A Drug Test

HuffingtonPost.com | Chelsea Kiene | Posted 01.25.2013 | Politics

New Hampshire state Republicans have introduced a bill with a strict message for welfare applicants: If you can't pass a drug test, you won't receive ...

It Makes No Sense to Drug Test People Who Apply for Government Financial Assistance

Derek Rosenfeld | Posted 03.25.2013 | Politics
Derek Rosenfeld

There are all sorts of benefits people can get without having to be drug tested, but it seems that these lawmakers are set on attacking the most poor and vulnerable groups.

Drug Testing Unemployment Measures On Tap In More States

Arthur Delaney | Posted 01.22.2013 | Politics
Arthur Delaney

-- Oklahoma State Rep. Dustin Roberts (R-Durant) has filed legislation to drug test people who apply for unemployment insurance. It's all about confro...

Drug Testing The Downtrodden Costs Money

Arthur Delaney | Posted 03.19.2013 | Politics
Arthur Delaney

Politicians across the country like the idea of drug testing people seeking welfare, unemployment insurance, or state-funded job training programs, so...

Drug Testing The Downtrodden -- So Hot Right Now

Arthur Delaney | Posted 03.18.2013 | Politics
Arthur Delaney

Drug testing the poor and unemployed has been a popular idea lately. Now that most state legislatures are back in session for the new year, we may be ...

Arthur Delaney

Jan Brewer Calls For Drug Testing Scheme That Has Flopped Elsewhere

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 01.17.2013 | Politics

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) wants enrollees in the state's job-training programs to prove they're not on drugs. A recent executive order creating ...

Arthur Delaney

Drug Testing Unemployment Measures To Get Boost In State Legislatures

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 01.16.2013 | Politics

States will soon try to fulfill the Republican goal of making unemployed people pee in cups to prove they're not on drugs. Last February, congressi...