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by gumby 981 days ago
> Government contractors. It’s a legal requirement.

Probably things have changed, but back in the mid 90s we had our first government contract, and one thing was that we were required to have a "drug testing policy".

A couple of team suggestions were "you bring 'em we'll test 'em" and "employees have access to private ceramic urine collection devices. After collection, other employees do not have access to the results of processing".

In the end we sent in "Our policy is not to test for drugs" and we got our contract.

(I agree with you that what matters is actual functional risk, not paranoia)