https://www.al.com/news/2020/12/how-court-ordered-drug-testing-in-alabama-poses-impossible-choices.html

Imagine waking up everyday, calling a number to hear if a color was called. Imagine having to plan your already busy day around this one call. The call summoning you to go take a drug test within 9 hours no matter what you may have going on. The call that makes you feel a criminal every morning you wake up no matter how good your intentions are. That call has a name, that call is Color Code.

Color Code poses impossible decisions and we do hope that this becomes popular enough to gain enough attention to bring change to our society. Color Code truly interferes with lives. Color Code makes it impossible to hold a good job while being on it. how do you explain to your boss why you have to leave early or are late every week and so often, "hey boss I am in charge of running this company for you, but um I have to leave early to go take my DRUG TEST" ? It turns people into liars at that point. Some currently have to pay $50 on the 1st of every month, then $40 for each test after that during that said month. That is easily $90 to $170 a month or even more. Plus much more in court costs, equaling a minimum of several hundred dollars a month or even more in some cases, all while having to miss work to go equaling in even less pay. Let's say you miss 4 hours of work a week to deal with check ins and testing, that is 16 hours or more a month, let's say at $15 an hour you are looking at $240 less income per month. So in reality, Color Code is costing someone approximately a minimum of $500 or more per month, which is easily more than a whole week's paycheck for many people. All of those prices do not even include the price of the drug classes often required which is approximately another $500 out of your pockets! Not only, does this system set you up to fail, but it really only affects users of marijuana. We've come to this conclusion after researching that many hard drugs, such as herione, meth, pain pills, and just about any drug besides marijuana is out of your system in no more than 72 hours, and seeing how skinny most of the users of harder drugs are, We would not be surprised if that detox time were even less. Other research shows that marijuana can stay in your system for up to 30 days, 10 times longer than the life threatening drugs. So in reality, the system only punishes marijuana users, a substance which is currently legal in 15 states and medically legal in some form in 48 states. Not only is that the case, but there are many researches that state there are drinks out there one can buy at their local CVS or Walgreens that can cleanse one's system instantly or in other words, make one pass a drug test for the next few hours after drinking the product. The system also forces people that are truly addicted to drugs to search for other undetectable and unsafe ways to get the high they are looking for. There is much research showing that K2 spices among others that were sold at local gas stations years ago before they were banned will unsafely get you high without drug tests being able to detect the substance. If that is the case, We can only imagine the other ways these people will find to undetectably get high. To finish our opinion of the topic based on research and facts, the employees of these testing places take no excuses for missing a test, so a miss is a fail, but on top of that, they do not treat you as a patient and seek to help people, instead they treat you like a criminal who is pure evil, many of these "criminals" of which don't even have a violent crime on their record. We hope for your help towards Alabama's goal of bettering the legal system and helping the lives of those affected by this trap of a "treatment".

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