Missouri House passes bill to drug-test welfare recipients

Not to put too fine a point on it, but being poor fucking sucks. You live in a shitty neighborhood. When you walk out the front door, you see nothing but desolation and heartbreak. No chance for a future, not here or anywhere. Even the nearest grocery store is in the good part of town, and you don’t have a car. 

When your life is at the point where buying a banana can be described as a quest, no wonder you want to smoke a joint every once in a while. Day traders do it, and the world doesn’t have them by the throat. But now the Missouri House has passed a bill that would require welfare recipients to take drug tests if the state suspects they’re using illegal drugs; testing positive could cost them state assistance for up to a year.