re: Why Intelligent People Use More Drugs

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Serious post: I could be mistaken but I believe a lot of companies in the private sector who get government contracts are required to have drug testing policies (engineers and the like), and some industries get tax breaks for having the same policies. Lots of white collar jobs have random pee tests. Which is unfortunate but there's money in testing facilities and they have lobbyists.

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Unless you're in a company like Lockheed or Raytheon, which is basically a federal agency without the salary limitations, you won't see this universally applied to an entire organization.

Companies usually implement drug testing programs to save money on insurance premiums.