A lack of jail cells prevents significant prosecution of drug dealers. And even if this problem were alleviated, the shortage of judges would still result in the quick release of drug pushers. A third battlefront is drug testing. Many government and business organizations are implementing testing on a routine basis in order to reduce the demand for drugs. The theory is simple.
Drug testing is a greater deterrent to drug use than the remote possibility of going to jail.
People who know they will have to pass a urine test in order to get a job are going to be much less likely to dabble in drugs. Five years later when drug testing was implemented, the proportion dropped to 9 percent. But drug testing is not without its opponents. Civil libertarians feel this deterrent is not worth the loss of personal privacy. Some unions believe that random testing in the workplace would violate the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches.