"Health & Medical News"

Citing lax security and procedures, undercover investigators said that it would be easy for truckers to cheat on mandatory drug tests required by federal law, NBC News reported Oct. 31.

The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) sent agents to 24 drug-testing sites using fake truck driver’s licenses and found that three-quarters failed to restrict items that could be used to adulterate urine samples. Agents were able to buy drug-masking kils online and use them at testing sites without being caught. “Every drug-masking product went undetected by the drug-screening labs,” the GAO report added.

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Washington’s 1998 medical-marijuana law legalizes possession of a 60-day supply of the drug, but doesn’t spell out exactly how much marijuana that amounts to, the Los Angeles Times reported Sept. 23.

As a result, state lawmakers are now requiring a definition of the standard dosage by July, and the state is holding hearings and gathering information from experts. “What has ended up happening is that in each county, law enforcement effectively decides what constitutes a 60-day supply, and in some counties, that amount has been set at zero,” said Alison Holcomb, marijuana education project director for the Washington chapter of the ACLU.? 

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