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According to legal writer Ysaiah Ross, drugs are a “growing problem among lawyers” (The Australian, May 18 2007, p.24). The article by Ross has a photo of a “prominent Melbourne QC” who is in a critical condition in hospital. Police in Adelaide found him “naked and unconscious” and “are expected to charge a young woman with administering a drug of dependence to him”. Hard drug use among lawyers, including top lawyers is common another prominent QC says.

Ross suggests random drug testing for lawyers. How about mandatory tests of all lawyers and judges with dismissal for positive drug tests? Let’s do the same for academics and politicians. That should prove interesting.