Friday, September 23, 2011

NORML.ORG US CA: OPED: Student Drug Testing Receives a Failing Grade

NORML.ORG US CA: OPED: Student Drug Testing Receives a Failing Grade: "California
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Between the years 2003 and 2008, the U.S. Department of Education awarded over $36 million in taxpayers' dollars to fund student drug testing programs in public high schools, including those in Shasta County. A study published last month in The Journal of Youth and Adolescence reveals that this was not money well spent.

An international team of researchers from universities in the United States, Israel and Australia assessed the impact of school drug testing programs on a nationally representative sample of 943 high school students. "

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