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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
I have no issue with what people do with their own bodies. Drugs should all be legal. However, if I am going to be forced to give them my money via threat of violence by the government, then I should have a say in how they spend that money.
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Libertarian Logic: We should make drugs legal, and also test people to make sure they are not taking any...um, legal drugs.
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The idea is that by requiring drug testing for welfare applicants that people would be deterred from applying and therefore would save costs to the taxpayer. Yet this idea comes from a stereotype that those on welfare are on drugs and that they only use welfare to pay for drugs.
Studies from the Journal of Policy Practice and Journal of Health and Social Policy show that drug use doesn?t create reliance on welfare. Also, they found that welfare recipients who do use drugs are still able to complete for jobs just like middle and upper-class drug users. Which tackles another myth: all drug users are lazy and that all those lazy drug users are on welfare.
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