I have always been firmly against company drug testing. How is that legal? Also, you could be a severe alcoholic or on huge amounts of prescribed medications and that is just fine?

Well, yeah. The government said those are OK, and the government is never wrong. They have people with guns that say so.

It's not legal for a company to force you to be drug tested. You can always say "no" and walk away. Unfortunately, it is in almost every state totally legal for your employer to fire you for absolutely no reason, so long as they aren't discriminating against for you on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, or disability.

Interesting, I assumed it was legal for them to force you (unintentional Canadian ignorance on the issue).

Thanks for the clarification!

Just to be clear: I'm saying they can effectively force you, in the sense that they can fire you if you don't comply.

I use it. For me, it can help coding with regards to formulating new ideas and approaches to problems. It can also cause me to become so engrossed in these that I get distracted from the real work so I have to second the age-old "moderation is key".

I don't and for me, most breakthroughs come as a result of letting questions/ideas jump around in my brain for a bit of time.

I used to attribute it to activities that I'd be doing when I have the breakthrough... but I've realized, its not the activities. It's just enough time to process things differently.