Clearly its not tainted by any drugs you may have sold. You would have gotten the money before they took said drugs, and any residue from them taking the drugs would not appear on the money.

At worst they've proven you've transacted with a person who takes drugs. That's not even slightly illegal.

QED.

That said, yes, civil forfeiture is often abused. And as I've replied elsewhere in the thread a couple times -- if they are out to abuse civil forfeiture -- then it really doesn't matter what the outcome of this test is; they'll just take your possessions on some other flimsy pretext. (Simply having significant cash on you, within 100 miles of a border, irrespective of any drug evidence has been sufficient in the past for them to seize it....no need for a chemistry set)

Bottom line: this test really has no bearing on the problem of civil forfeiture.

Hobbits don't wear shoon (or even shoes) for a different reason: thicker skin on the soles and hair on the rest of the feet. But wouldn't they get infected going barefoot all the time?

You have now. It's called Rhinitis medicamentosa or rebound congestion.

This kind of presumes reason is the basis of our drug laws.

Easy-peasy. I don't even have to google it. The Interstate Commerce Clause. All you have to do is find some pretext that says the regulation affects interstate commerce in some way and the feds can quash it.

In this case the issue to use is plain as a pikestaff. By preventing municipalities from providing high quality internet service the state is hinder access by out-of-state vendors to consumers in that community. That justification is WAAY stronger than other that have held up to scrutiny.

Because every square centimeter of this rock is owned by someone? And no one owns any square centimeters of the other rocks in the solar system? It's about the frontier, and its opportunities.

Nobody said it had to be an easy frontier.

You or I might not be interested in making the attempt, because sterile, barren, bathed in radiation, etc. but other people do, and why do you care if other people run off and get themselves killed in an attempt to acquire unclaimed land?

A good idea 20 years ago. Today, the farmer has a choice of death vs life due to the fully mature gang culture that has grown up around illegal drugs.

Best to just legalize it - let the gangs convert to legal families with less income.

Well here many roads have electric trollies running up and down them instead of street cars, not too different. We also used to have an inter-urban tramway that was 50+ miles and if still functioning it would be an hour+ vs the 3 hours that commuting now takes as the other side of town is now about 50 miles away, and getting further as the price of housing continues to climb. With the cost of housing around here, the average person often has to spend a lot of time commuting.

The problem is "maximizing profits" at the expense of safety. We already had one town burn up due to cost savings from a railroad (eliminating the conductor and the engineer being too tired to set the correct number of hand brakes leading to the train rolling into town and blowing up) and numerous close calls.
As to other professions, there is quite a bit of evidence that Doctors make mistakes when on 24 hr shifts, and it seems that airplane pilot is the third deadliest occupation with 53.4 deaths per 100,000. Many jobs such as retail are not inherently dangerous and overworked employees will only hurt the bottom line of the company.

I care as a Canadian that it is hard to compete with an uneven playing field, drive 30 miles south and airlines flights are much cheaper which makes it hard for Canadian airlines to compete.
On topic, there is the question about infrastructure costs for railroads vs airlines. If one industry is getting subsidized they have an unfair advantage. Eg, it has been mentioned here that railroads get hit up for property taxes in quite a few counties in the States so if airports don't have to pay taxes/rent on land, that is an advantage. Rail is a very efficient form of transport and for passenger service should easily be able to compete with airlines over shorter routes where the time savings from flying don't exist or are very minimal (including travel to airport, going through all the stuff before boarding and the reverse at the end of the trip).

Have you got a license to use that much sarcasm in one post? That exceeded the unlicensed sarcasm allowance. You'll need to file a form and pay a fee. The queue forms on the left. The office is open on alternate Tuesdays if the previous Wednesday was a full moon.

When the bottoms fall out of the fiat currencies,

Most people will be dead as it will be the result of total war. Nothing else is going to rock the worldwide markets so thoroughly that all 6 major reserve currencies have their value evaporated.

That something should be relatively rare, easily verified, have low carrying costs (i.e. doesn't rust or rot), and be somewhat portable. Gold and silver fit the bill,

So does the greenback, and in the modern world it's used a hell of a lot more extensively than gold or silver. Unless the fed goes full retard and starts printing physical bills at a rate significantly greater than inflation (would be basically impossible to do with the current infrastructure) that's not going to change.