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Should Presidential Candidates Undergo Periodic Testing for Illegal Drug Use?

This refers to being high in the present, not in the past.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Yes, and it should be done four times a year for them. Also have the Senate and House of Representatives also, most of them do drugs on the side and also pretty much know who the closest druglord is in their area. I am totally for drug testing, and if they smoke too much they should be taken off the government's free health care. They should be punished since us taxpayers will be the ones taking care of them while they die of lung cancer. If their ailments are related to their drug taking and pill popping usage, they should pay for their own healthcare 100%. So far the politicians get a good deal while the innocent hardworking taxpapers get nothing for being law abiding citizens.

    Oh, I also believe in psychological testing and IQ testing. If they don't measure up to those tests they can't stay in office or be allowed to stay and run next term. I believe also in term limits 4 to 8 years, not a lifetime politician like Kennedy. We need new people in and out so they can still stay connected to the working class people.

    We should do a testing of all the candidates way before the end of month of June. We have that right since we will be the victim of their negligence if they are not competent.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes. All that hold public office should be held to the same standards as regular working people are. From local govt to the Presidency.They are "hired" by us,if work places can demand drug testing,so should we.

  • 1 decade ago

    Well...Let's put it this way.

    We make those who are charged with enforcing our laws (police) take extensive phycological tests and drug tests.

    But all our elected officials (the ones who make the laws our law enforcement officials have to enforce) have had to do was declare they were a candidate. No mandatory examination of their mental health or their drug status.

    Ironic isn't it?

  • 5 years ago

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  • 1 decade ago

    That might not be a bad thing really. I mean the military has to and the president would be the Commander-in-chief of the military. Good question.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    To be honest, since Clinton's presidency, the American public didn't really care too much about the president's personal lives including adultery, drug use, or alcohol use.

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    1 decade ago

    No, I think that it is a violation of our constitutional right to protect ourselves from self-incrimination by making us take drug tests. Why on earth does the NFL care if some of their athletes smoke a few joints? It is none of their business.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Why not lets get rid of 75% of the thugs

  • 1 decade ago

    Not a bad idea. Why not include congress, supreme court etc.

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