Urine inspector fights for job preservation in Alaska The Anchorage Daily News prints a long, generally balanced overview of the state's marijuana initiative today. Not much new information, but I find it fascinating that efforts against marijuana reform always seem to be spearheaded by people in the drug-testing industry.
Matt Fagnani, chairman of Alaskans Against the Legalization of Marijuana/Hemp and president of the local drug-testing firm WorkSafe Inc., called the idea of regulation "bunk."
"How do you regulate THC levels? Who sets the standard for how potent it can be?" he said. "The pro people want this to be settled on a state-by-state basis. But that's not how drug laws in this country work. If this is a legitimate fight, in the halls of Congress is where it needs to begin, not in the easy-to-pick-off states."
Now there's a guy who puts a lot of faith in big, faceless, omnipotent government.
A few weeks ago, the most vigorous (if ridiculous) arguments against medical marijuana in Illinois came from the head of a national drug-testing firm. It's as if this multi-million dollar industry is afraid of the future. Perhaps it should be, knowing that its financial health depends on strict marijuana prohibition.
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