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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStarting Nov. 1 all Oklahoma applicants for assistance must have drug screening
By WAYNE GREENE World Senior Writer
OKLAHOMA CITY - Starting Nov. 1, the state will screen all adult applicants for an assistance program for needy families for illegal drugs under a law Gov. Mary Fallin signed Wednesday.
The drug-screening law will ensure that welfare checks will not be used to buy drugs, Fallin said.
"Hard-working taxpayers shouldn't be asked to subsidize drug abuse, and this bill will help to ensure they are not," Fallin said.
The bill is substantially less stringent than a version passed by the state House earlier this year. That measure would have mandated drug testing for all applicants for Temporary Assistance to Needy Families.
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http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20120517_16_A1_OKLAHO656755
What we really need is to drug test our politicians, then we'd get somewhere
malaise
(269,254 posts)And are these drugs only the illegal kind?
madokie
(51,076 posts)not sure about the type of drugs, if its only the illegal ones or not. I suspect it is though.
Every since this woman has been elected we've taken a nose dive for the worst. Our schools are starving for money, our roads are a shame, our infrastructure is falling apart but yet this governor wants to cut our income taxes.
Please fellow Okies wake the fuck up and get rid of the likes of her.
NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)That is where this is going.
Don
madokie
(51,076 posts)I