<p>My school does not use drug tests on athletes, partially because the administration trusts them a little bit too much. However, I am sure that some athletes-particularly in hockey-slam drugs frequently. The other sports I am less sure about because I know little about the members of the team and their records. I know that if drug taking exists on the football team, it has to be a very low consumption; otherwise performance over both the short and long term would be noticeably affected. And with the police presence, unless one goes to the very rich area of the city it is quite hard to obtain, transport, and consume drugs in any major gathering of people, although there have been a few cases from time to time. Most involve non-athlete freshmen or sophomores, and are mainly on the fringes of school society anyway (the GLBs).
My view is that drug testing for things like sports teams is stupid-it seldom catches anyone, and the only person one is hurting is themseslves. The only time that testing really needs to be isntitued is if the drugs are causing problems in the house (abuse of the other members), in which case this needs to be used as evidence to have them incarcerated. Otherwise,, I am of the opinion that if one wants to maim themselves and fry their brain, let them do so; it is their body. Besides, the trade in drugs would lessen crime-if marijuana, cocaine, crystal meth and so on were legal, there would probably be little drug-related crimes with the exception of abuse in the household. Crime would drop and about a third of inmates would be out. However, this would probably necessitate new laws for doing anything (especially driving) under the influence-if a murder happened by someone else's error of judgment, they would have to be convicted as a first-degree murderer, since DUI would no longer be considered a separate crime.</p>
<p>^Traffic is an excelent movie speaking the same arguement for legalization, of cocaine, in this case. </p>
<p>think of the blow that the end of prohibition dealt to organized crime, which based its empire on bootlegging. the worst damage from drugs is not the in the users, it's in the people who are murdered to further the cartels' intrests. I know people who have been beaten up in pot deals, i don't know people who have been seriously affected by pot.</p>