§ 4002. FINDINGS.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors finds as follows:

(a) Drug abuse in the United States has become a national health and economic problem. As much as $100 billion a year may be diverted from legitimate businesses to buy illegal drugs, while the costs to individual companies usually exceeds 2.5 percent of payroll.

(b) Law enforcement focuses on reducing the supply of illegal drugs. However, to reduce effectively the abuse of drugs the demand for such drugs must be reduced.

(c) If employers persuade a major portion of the nation's drug users to abandon drug use for the sake of retaining their jobs, they will undercut the economic base of the drug business. Accordingly, it is important that there be a corporate response to drug use in the workplace.

(d) It is the intent of the Board of Supervisors that the San Francisco Drug Free Workplace Ordinance be a first step in reducing the use of drugs in the workplace.

(Added by Ord. 339-89, App. 9/28/89)