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To really get to my concern, I don't really care if government knows EVERYTHING about me, as long as it is guaranteed not to persecute me because of what it knows, and it is welcome to persecute me if I am a terrorist or serial killer.
BUT, companies already feel free to persecute people who EVER smoke marijuana, even if it doesn't affect their job performance. On a related subject, the FBI once visited my landlady and told her I was a student activist. That made me feel insecure. (And yes, I can prove that, as I sent off for my FBI files, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act.)
What we really need is a return to a tolerant society, in which businesses and governments realize that it violates the basic rules of being an American to drug-test people and fire them based on something not job-related. (I was drug-tested, for example, when applying for a job as an editor. I had a friend who was drug-tested because she applied to pile boxes for a seller of cassette tapes.)
And as far as Amazon is concerned, I would have been happy if they would remove that particular book from my account as listed on my Kindle. They can keep it in their internal records for as long as they like. But of course that is too much trouble for Amazon...
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