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Prisoners use drugs. Stop trying to stop them

Originally published: Briarpatch Magazine on July 29, 2021 by F.T. Green (more by Briarpatch Magazine) | (Posted Aug 04, 2021)

In 1985, Canada began drug testing the urine of federal prisoners. Prison officials had tried to stop people from smuggling drugs into prisons by banning Christmas presents and even deploying teams of gerbils to sniff out anxious visitors.