Michigan Spent Eight Months Drug Testing The Poor And Found Zero Positive Results

In the eight months that Michigan has been running a pilot program to drug test applicants and recipients of its welfare program, not a single person has tested positive, according to preliminary results.

The program began in October in three different counties, instituting a 50-question screening questionnaire that can prompt officials to order a drug test.

As of May, 303 people who applied for benefits or were already receiving them participated, but they turned up zero positive drug test results. An applicant can refuse a test, forfeiting benefits if he or she does, and some argue that low positive testing rates can be due to those who abuse drugs simply declining to get tested. But no one in Michigan’s pilot program refused to take a test....
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/06/27/3792839/michigan-welfare-drug-test/