The real dangers to a museum are theft, bad feelings, and exclusion from the
general culture. The duties of the police should not be taken up by one's
employers. What people do in their spare time is their business. If they fall
asleep at work, or steal, or badger, those are legitimate grounds for
dismissal, not whether they share a taste for some substances over others on
their own time. The reason most illegal drugs are illegal is because they are
against the law, not because they are harmful in themselves. The reason they
lead to damage of the social fabric is because their illicitness makes them
expensive and  users have to steal to obtain them. Yes, I was generalizing.
But the practice of random, or universal, testing is more dangerous to the
society than drug use itself.

David Formanek

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