Compulsary drug testing for pubs/clubs in Aberdeen

It seems that the police along with pub and club owners in Aberdeen have joined other cities in making it compulsary for pub/club goers to face compulsary drug testing if they want to have access to the pub/club.

Although it is claimed people can say no, they are denied access if they refuse and if the police in Aberdeen are as bad as other areas, those saying no for any number of reasons (privacy, human rights, being wrongly accused of handaling drugs etc) will be investigated by the police. Saying no is not an option.

With some schools and the police wanting drug testing in schools, it is not hard to see a time when the min we walk out the door we are tested for all sorts of things and it is not hard to see that the children of today will be the brainwashed of tomorrow, which is handy for those pub/club owners and the police.

As with the schools, testing is done in public, so you better make sure you wash your hands everytime you touch a surface just incase it has been contaminated because that will get you ether a ‘amber’ or ‘red’ light which will see you getting searched for drugs in public.

If the pub/club owners and the police realy cared about combating drugs in pubs/clubs they would deal with the dealers rather than trying to brainwash us into thinking it is OK to be tested wherever we go.

The cost of these things to test  a few hundered people queing to get in is about £30,000.00 whereas hiring a sniffer dog that can easily go from one pub to the nest and search a lot more people and catch the dealers is about £300.00 a night.

Why would the pub/club owners want to spend £30,000.00 to find out who might have been in contact with drugs (the machine does not know if you handled the drugs directly or if you simply touched a contaminated surface) rather than spend about £300.00 for dog to catch the dealers is something you would would need to ask the club/pub owners because I can only think of 2 reasons. 1) the machine is purley another PR stunt or 2) for some reason they do not want to target the dealers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7702856.stm