Fifth Amendment protects you from being forced to incriminate yourself. "Currently, (illicit) drug use is considered an infamous crime. What the above statement means is that one cannot be forced to take responsibility for a crime unless first indicted by a Grand Jury. That means that if a company takes action to drug test you for a 'crime' without a presentment or indictment by a Grand Jury, it violates this right. Before they can search (drug test) they must first have probable cause supported by an Oath or affirmation, then they must obtain a Warrant, do the search (drug test), then indict you before and Grand Jury, find you guilty, and then fire you or not hire you. Unless you're having charges pressed against you in an indictment by a Grand Jury, you may not be held responsible for a crime. You do not 'answer' to it." (www.nontesterslist.com). Drug tests force one to give witness upon oneself.
             It is not fair for Congress to enact laws to require people to undergo drug tests and not submit themselves to same level of testing. In late September 1998, the White House refused requests from congressional investigators seeking information about the jobs held by those in the special drug testing program. "Your request amounts to asking us to be complicitous in a methodical, broad scale invasion of privacy," White House Counsel Jack Quinn wrote in a letter to House Civil Service Subcommittee Chairman John Mica.
             Drug testing costs our country billions of dollars every year. It is being used to discriminate thousands, and ruin lives of millions of others. The Fourth and Fifth Amendments are the cornerstone of our country's democracy. Drug testing needs to be removed from our everyday lives to ensure that we maintain democracy and can continue to live our lives the American way as the framers of the Constitution intended.
             Many people hold the belief that the federal and state cou...