Youth Correspondent America's "War on Drugs" has now reached a deplorable low--in some ways violating fundamental rights the U.S. Constitution guarantees to all citizens.

Some American high schools are beginning to adopt mandatory, random drug testing among students participating in extracurricular activities.

Gone are the days of probable cause and reasonable suspicion.

Now, faculty members of schools are the police--turning educational centers into police states where children are escorted from class to "testing" sites.

As American Civil Liberties Union Legal Director Steven Shapiro said on the National Federation of State High Schools Association's Web site, this new, hyper drug-testing policy "makes students' rights the latest casualty of the 'War on Drugs.' "

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