City-Wide Drug Testing... What Do YOU Think?

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-08-21-citywide-drug-test_N.htm

im looking to read what you guys/gals think of this twisted idea.

 

I think the technology has the potential to do good and bad. If it is used to see the highest concentration of dangerous/addictive drug use and focus medical services to treat those areas most in need, then it could be good.

The more likely scenario for US government at least, is that it will be used to help forward the ill-conceived drug laws of the nation.

 

I can't see anything coming of this except data, and I'm a big fan of data.
So the government finds out that people do drugs, and then what? They launch massive crackdowns on every neighborhood of every city in the nation? Maybe they'll learn the horrible secret that the midwest is the center of meth production and that California has some really good weed. We'll all have to start peeing in potted plants to keep the feds off our trails.
I just can't see how it could be that harmful. The only things to be gained are more precise stats for things people already knew. I relish the image of DEA agents (the ones on the TV show, specifically) getting called off a raid so they can crawl down a manhole and scoop tiny samples of my excrement into little plastic cups. I'd happily hand over my tax dollars to watch that.