Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) has suspended his March executive order mandating random drug testing of state employees. He quietly sent a memo to agency heads on June 10 announcing the decision, but the move wasn…
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Scott Suspends Florida State Employee Drug Testing
June 19, 2011 | 14 views | No Comments
Posted in NewsHazy Politics Surround Pot Proposition
August 22, 2010 | 0 views | No Comments
California — Proposition 19, the marijuana legalization measure awaiting voters in November, already has united some strange bedfellows, split some traditional allies and exposed some not-so-ulterior motives — and it’s only midsumm…
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Louisiana Lawmen Play Fast And Loose with the Constitution
August 29, 2008 | 8 views | No Comments
In its 2000 decision in Indianapolis v. Edmond, the US Supreme Court held that efforts to attack the drug trade by holding a checkpoint to look for drugs was a violation of the Fourth Amendment’s protection of the right to be free from unwarranted searches and seizures. In the years since then, a handful of [...]
