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From: davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP (Davidsen)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: drug testing
Message-ID: <715@steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-May-86 16:10:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: steinmet.715
Posted: Thu May  1 16:10:37 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 3-May-86 19:42:00 EDT
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Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.UUCP (Davidsen)
Organization: GE CRD, Schenectady, NY
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I find it hard to care about drug testing for pro ball players. If
these people are playing straight or so wired that they don't touch the
ground, it doesn't hurt anyone but themselves. Speed and steroids may
show some increase in performance, cocaine in quantity will eventually
get people so messad up they can't play, and goodies like PCP aren't
any concern of mine.

I worry about my bus driver, pilot, doctor, and anyone else who can
mess up my life by getting weird at the wrong time. Why anyone would
say something about testing being needed for athletes but not computer
programmers escapes me. It's the useful people in the world who have to
be in touch with reality. Let all the actors, singers, models, and
anyone else in the entertainment business (except the management, who
might mess up the stockholders) have all the drugs they can use, they
hurt no one but themselves.
-- 
	-bill davidsen

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