Shop owner convicted over products to beat drug tests

Kentucky has a new law - an Allowed Cloud, if you will - that I don't remember hearing about until today. This new law makes it illegal to sell products designed to let people beat a drug test. In fact, it makes it a felony.

Now a Covington shop owner has been convicted of violating this brand-new legislation.

Let's get this clear: Drug tests are not 100% accurate. Studies have shown that they will occasionally show a person to have drugs in their system when they do not.

What especially astounds me is this "let's ban everything" attitude by lawmakers - which oddly doesn't extend to reining in big corporations. They'll ban products that beat drug tests, but they won't regulate the cost of car insurance or electricity.

Needless to say, there's no restrictions whatsoever on employers using drug tests to micromanage workers' off-the-clock behavior. Of course.

In the topsy-turvy conservaworld of Kentucky lawmakers, it's "regulation for thee, not for me." Under the laws today, corporations have no restrictions, but personal behavior is tightly regimented.

This ideology is absolutely untenable. Yet it is the very essence of modern American conservatism. I'd love to see what excuses conservatives come up with for it.

(Source: http://nky.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20090409/NEWS0107/904090369)