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...price of being caught can be high. Late last week, on an oil-drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, a specially trained Labrador retriever, flown in by helicopter from Franklin, La., discovered marijuana in a worker's luggage. The employee was fired on the spot, and shared a ride back to the mainland with the dog and its handler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling Drugs on the Job | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...plant in Dayton two weeks ago, 49 people were arrested for using and selling cocaine on the site, and 29 GM employees among those apprehended were fired. That capped a nine-month investigation by local police at the company's request, during which undercover agents purchased large amounts of marijuana and cocaine. On Jan. 2, the agents bought half a pound of coke for $14,000. Said Detective Nels Munson: "That's when we knew we had to move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling Drugs on the Job | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...error has been made, arguing that careers can be ruined over such a mistake. Others object because the tests detect traces of drugs lingering in the body that may have no effect on job performance. According to Dr. Reynold Schmidt, corporate medical director for Unocal, regular users of marijuana, for instance, can test positive in some urinalysis screenings three months or more after their last smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling Drugs on the Job | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Rebecca Kidd, both 21, had offered sex for $150 to Inspector Malcolm Brown. The two women pleaded innocent to misdemeanor charges. Police followed up the arrests by raiding the Providence apartment of insurance salesman Stanley Henshaw III. There they found, in addition to small amounts of cocaine and marijuana, more than 100 photographs of 46 women in various states of undress; six of the women were identified as present or former Brown students. Police Chief Anthony Mancuso, who has not charged Henshaw, commented cryptically, "There may not be a prostitution ring as we know a prostitution ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Girls? Sex scandal at Brown | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...activist, for a progressive," says the young Republican. "The problem with the Democrats is that their activism is 20 years out of date." But with the drug war emerging as an issue this year, Scranton has been hurt in recent weeks by his record of using "recreational drugs" like marijuana back in his counterculture days. Scranton's early twelve-point lead has vanished, and Bob Casey may just overcome his patrician townsman. MICHIGAN: Breaking Barriers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democratic Governors Under Siege | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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