Yea well that might be true if you can show me one student athlete prosecuted for popping positive on a drug test unless say there were already on probation for drug use or something similar.

On false positives it does happen but it is quite rare, in any event every school, employer and agency I know of has always allowed an immediate retest to rule out a false positive.

I haven’t heard of a student kicked out of school over this either but I am sure that could happen. Flatly though while I would support an effort to change this policy it won’t happen now and the girl must decide because by the time the battle is won or lost her years of playing may be past her, indeed if she is good college scholarships may be lost.

People think scholarships are all about guys and football or basketball but talented young girls have real opportunities with colleges, specifically in soccer and believe it or not volleyball. I have several friends with girls at great universities on full scholarships for both sports.

I try to say this all the time, as libertarians there are two worlds we exist in. The way we know it should be, we live in this world when we are on our own land or where we can live on our own terms. Then there is the world as it is and when we want to coexist with others in institutions like public schools, etc.

We have three choices in regard to that world…

1. In some instances we really don’t have a choice we do have to be involved and yield to certain things, this is NOT the case here.

2. In others we don’t need to participate, our lives won’t implode if we opt out but for one reason or another we WANT to participate. Then we must decide if we comply or simply opt out and put our principle above our wants. The choice here is always shades of gray. This IS the case this time.

3. In others we don’t want to participate so we simply don’t the choice there is always easy.

In the end though this girl and all young people will become adults and face similar choices again and again. If this girl is talented and can play at the college level it absolutely will be in place at any university and in fact if you have a scholarship it is required by the NCAA.

See now it isn’t such a simple thing is it? Pee in a cup and do good in school and play well and get a full ride to a school that would cost 25K a year to attend otherwise.

I served in the Army, I had to submit to drug testing. It came with the job. When I ended up in an aviation unit supporting special ops troops for one rotation we were tested about every other week. Quite a few guys popped positive for fricken CRACK, frankly I was glad they got caught. I worked on trucks that fueled aircraft but some of those idiots worked on aircraft! Crackheads setting tork levels on aircraft bolts, no thanks man.

Well high school softball isn’t that critical I know my point is if you are going to do anything significant in your life drug testing is going to come up. When I worked for Sage Telecom I had a drug test prior to being employed, Same with Fluke Networks. They were conditions of employment, they were great jobs so I took the test. I could have refused and worked for smaller companies with less opportunity but that would have been a big mistake.

Keep in mind this is all coming from a guy that wants to repeal all drug prohibition because I know it is a failed policy that does far more harm then good.