Friday, May 29, 2009
News Atlanta criminals prefer cocaine over marijuana
Posted by Andisheh Nouraee on Fri, May 29, 2009 at 2:23 PM
According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, 60% of all men arrested in Atlanta in 2008 tested positive for an illegal drug.
Atlanta's percentage of arrestees peeing dirty is actually on the low-end of the 10 major cities surveyed.
But get this, according to USA Today Atlanta is the only city in the survey where cocaine is the most popular drug among those arrested.
In the other nine cities survey, marijuana is the most popular drug among arrestees.
Question: Is there a worse job in the world than jailhouse urine specimen collector?
(A jaunty tilt of my crack pipe to Christa at pecanne log for informing me of this story.)
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Wouldn't our ancestors be proud to know that we have to pass a urine purity exam to be a ditch digger laying sewer pipe, a butcher, a teacher, a college student, a gov't contractor, a high school student, a human in america, etc. Yep, we've come a long way. Now, how do we get back?
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