rfenst wrote:http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/ada/ch4.htm
An employer may discharge or deny employment to persons who currently engage in the illegal use of drugs.
Therefore, an employee who illegally uses drugs—whether the employee is a casual user or an addict—is not protected by the ADA if the employer acts on the basis of the illegal drug use.[7]
If you or I put ourselves in the same situation with our employers we'd be fired. The Congressman should be fired, and it shouldn't be up to taxpayers to pay for his rehab and health insurance.
And Wheel, Nenaderthals did not know how to process cocoa leaves into the powder form known as cocaine. But cocoa leaves have been chewed on, and have been a major economic factor in many parts of the world for centuries.