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Fastest way to rid my system of THC? Possible job opportunity prohibits drug use and, well . . .
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This is also possible.
Too bad it's probably not like my wife's old job. Before they did drug tests, they explained how long it took on average for drugs like pot and cocaine to leave your system...then they asked when she wanted to schedule the test. Oh finance. So silly.
Can't you get one of those weed test things you put in your mouth and it screws up the test after
Grab some b-vitamin supplements specifically one with Niacin/Niacinamide to help get stuff moving through your system a little better. Drink lots of water and try to go pee a few times before your test.
Well, in the end, life isn't fair.
You want the job, you do what needs to be done to get it and keep it.
drug testing is trash
unless if it's like some super important job that requires the person to be absolutely sober 100% of the time then fuck drug testing
unless if it's like some super important job that requires the person to be absolutely sober 100% of the time then fuck drug testing
Perhaps, and I'm just theorizing, if you're looking for work at a level that mandates drug testing to get the job, maybe making better life choices (or figuring out all the ways to game the system at least) well in advance would have been the prudent thing, given how utterly puritanical some employers (and members of society in general) are well-known to be?
I mean, the moment you start and continue smoking weed, you have to know what that means for some of your prospects in life if you can't figure out a way around it. The same way people with tattoos have to be conscious of it when clothes shopping for outfits that look good but still conceal their body art for interviews and/or the workplace, or the way that people with face piercings know that they need a way to mask or cover those holes in their face.
I hate to be blunt about it, but forward thinking really makes a huge difference and not exercising it in this case has really done you in.
I mean, the moment you start and continue smoking weed, you have to know what that means for some of your prospects in life if you can't figure out a way around it. The same way people with tattoos have to be conscious of it when clothes shopping for outfits that look good but still conceal their body art for interviews and/or the workplace, or the way that people with face piercings know that they need a way to mask or cover those holes in their face.
I hate to be blunt about it, but forward thinking really makes a huge difference and not exercising it in this case has really done you in.
What the hell kind of job are you doing that are drug testing you?
Sounds like a massive invasion of privacy
Sounds like a massive invasion of privacy
1.) It ranges depending on how strict a given lab sets the cutoffs, but basically 20-50ng/ml. If you smoke weed regularly, you are probably running ten times that much, at least.
2.) Not THC exactly, but we do produce sorts of analogues known as endocannabinoids.
Also, I know you are out OP, but the the rate THC is flushed out of your body has to do with your own metabolism. The variance in returning to non-detectable THC levels in regular smokers can vary quite a bit.
Hopefully, you are a fast metabolizer.
Tons of jobs do routine drug testing, though?
Where do you live? In the US all kinds of jobs drug test. Sometimes even retail positions do it. It's because of "drug free workplace" policies that give employers a massive discount on insurance.
OP you need to hire somebody who looks exactly like you to turn up to the drug test. First, obviously, you'll have to put them through a drug test to make sure they'll pass.
You'll need to put a wire on them so any conversations they have with would be co-workers or bosses go through you first otherwise you'll probably be caught.
Also, once this is all over, you'll have to kill them.
I'm sorry. It's not nice but it's necessary & really they should have expected it from the off so you're not really doing anything wrong.
Reply once this is done and I'll talk you through disposing of the body and coming up with an alibi.
You'll need to put a wire on them so any conversations they have with would be co-workers or bosses go through you first otherwise you'll probably be caught.
Also, once this is all over, you'll have to kill them.
I'm sorry. It's not nice but it's necessary & really they should have expected it from the off so you're not really doing anything wrong.
Reply once this is done and I'll talk you through disposing of the body and coming up with an alibi.
Or you move to a country where shit like this doesn't fly at all and live a good stressfree life.
I'm not from the US. I work a government job and would never in a lifetime agree to be drug tested. Above all, they would never ask. Workers have really strong rights here.
I also smoke most days too.
The idea that your applying for a job or even your own job could ask you to take a test seems insane to me.
I stopped smoking after graduating to get a job, was clean. Got a job, never got tested. Smoked for a week then got told I had to do a test by Monday, it was Thursday.
Tons of water, no fatty foods, and sweating. I had some at home drug tests (which you can and should buy from Amazon) I failed on Friday but passed on Saturday. I also took another Monday morning just to be sure.
It's in your system longer if you've been doing it chronically but the method is still the same. My dad smoked everyday and had three days to get clean and still passed. Buy some of those tests so you can track your progress. Once youre passing don't waterlog yourself too much or your sample may not be counted, and eat a steak the night before the test so there's creatine in your pee.
Also, pee at least 4-5 times the day of the test before your sample pee. And fill the cup mid stream, not beginning. Good luck.
Tons of water, no fatty foods, and sweating. I had some at home drug tests (which you can and should buy from Amazon) I failed on Friday but passed on Saturday. I also took another Monday morning just to be sure.
It's in your system longer if you've been doing it chronically but the method is still the same. My dad smoked everyday and had three days to get clean and still passed. Buy some of those tests so you can track your progress. Once youre passing don't waterlog yourself too much or your sample may not be counted, and eat a steak the night before the test so there's creatine in your pee.
Also, pee at least 4-5 times the day of the test before your sample pee. And fill the cup mid stream, not beginning. Good luck.
I mean, yeah, absolutely. But we also have the War on Drugs still going on, so, here we are. Of course, even some of our big unions agree to drug testing. Anti-drug sentiment is culturally strong as a whole, even if functionally, drug tests are usually specifically aimed at marijuana use.
We can't all be Portugal.
And other countries have their own stupid shit.
No place is paradise and as a grown up you understand some things are more important.
i Would buy some cheap drug tests on amazon and start running and hyradrating up. Green tea seems to be helpful as well. Also don't give your first pee of the day. You should be fine in a couple of weeks if not sooner
Just stop man. Don't let weed fuck your money up, spark up again a week after getting the job.
If you are still wary that its not out your system by the time it needs to, you can go to a smokeshop to get system clearing drinks. I'm warning you ahead of time, prepare to endure a violent bout of diahhrea.
If you are still wary that its not out your system by the time it needs to, you can go to a smokeshop to get system clearing drinks. I'm warning you ahead of time, prepare to endure a violent bout of diahhrea.
It's pot, not heroin. There are literally zero physical withdrawal symptoms.
I've done this many times for jobs and internships, and in my experience it really isn't difficult. Not asking in a judgmental way, but are you saying this because you smoke weed and have found it to be hard to quit (there are definitely people who this is true for, so again not judging), or because you believe it is addictive as a nonuser?
Anyway, water can absolutely work if used in conjunction with some form of Vitamin B (this makes your urine yellow, eliminating one of the immediate red flags of the dilution method) and creatine, which adjusts your creatinine levels (eliminating the other major red flag of dilution). I would not rely on detox kits, most of which are at best overpriced and at worst ineffective.
How much do you weigh? Most of the studies that say it takes a month+ for your urine to show up clean are from the 80s and use an outdated methodology -- most recent ones have it at about 1-2 weeks for heavy smokers. I've peed clean after daily smoking in about 10 days, although I am thin as a rail.
You sure it's not a hair test? In my industry (petroleum engineering) they always hair test, even for internships. It's why I haven't smoked since freshman year of college 10 years ago.
one time a friend asked for my clean piss, so I filled up a diet Pepsi bottle and had it next to me while I was waiting for him to stop by.
I mistakenly thought the piss filled bottle was actually diet Pepsi.
needless to say I ran from one end of my house to another with piss in my mouth so I could spit it out.
never holding clean piss for someone again
I mistakenly thought the piss filled bottle was actually diet Pepsi.
needless to say I ran from one end of my house to another with piss in my mouth so I could spit it out.
never holding clean piss for someone again
I don't know anyone who has quit smoking weed who hasn't done it cold turkey. The first day or two will be slightly annoying, mentally, especially if you use it as a crutch for bed-time. After that, the temptation pretty much ceases to exist unless you're extremely bored and you have ready access to the stuff or are around people who are doing it.
I find the easiest way to quit is to get rid of all your shit (including your pipes if you aren't too financially invested), and then take a weekend trip somewhere new with nothing to toke on. You'll forget about wanting to smoke pretty quickly with the trip as a distraction and you'll be ween'd off the worst of the side effects of quitting by the time you're home.
While I agree that quitting pot after daily use generally isn't difficult at all, in his/her defense something doesn't have to induce physical withdrawal to be extremely difficult to quit -- I can comfortably say my last roommate was addicted to weed, to the extent that he failed a drug test simply because he found it too hard to stop smoking and quit like 1-2 days before, with complete knowledge of when he would be tested. The whole time he wasn't smoking he was complaining about it.
Also FWIW it's not clear at all that there are "literally zero physical withdrawal symptoms" to weed IIRC. You're certainly not going to be running a fever or anything like that, but I'm pretty sure you're definitely gonna be more irritable/anxious and probably find it harder to sleep for a bit. I've also heard increased saliva production occurs, although I'm not sure if that's true or not (and that's not an obviously *negative* effect, either).
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I'd imagine they'd say he/she's SOL, considering if you were truly a nonsmoker and inhaled second hand, it would show up in your urine for maaaybe a day.
You're right- I shouldn't have said there are zero physical withdrawal symptoms. Some people do get more irritable and have their sleep patterns disrupted for a few days.
With that said- anyone unable to quit long enough to pass a screening for a job opportunity has bigger problems than missing out on that job and probably needs to seek counseling or something. Next to zero willpower is required to take a pause on smoking pot as compared to damn near any other drug/vice I can think of.
Oh, agreed. As a daily smoker even I would look at my roommate and think "geez dude this is pretty pathetic." He definitely does not represent the norm.
You can pull a workaholics and pee on all the urine cups so everyone turns up positive :)
Sweating it out is the best way to do it. I don't trust the tamper kits because most of the places I know take the results to LabCorp or some other lab. I don't know if they can detect that stuff when they review the samples, but I wouldn't wanna risk it. The longest it took for me to be clean was three months, but I'm a fat guy so it takes much longer for me. Honestly that's the only way to beat the system.
Sweating it out is the best way to do it. I don't trust the tamper kits because most of the places I know take the results to LabCorp or some other lab. I don't know if they can detect that stuff when they review the samples, but I wouldn't wanna risk it. The longest it took for me to be clean was three months, but I'm a fat guy so it takes much longer for me. Honestly that's the only way to beat the system.
You might be protected in Massachusetts whose state supreme court recently decided that medical marijuana use is a reasonable accommodation to expect from an employer for a handicap, but I'm not entirely sure how safe a state supreme court ruling is.
Most state courts say they can't force an employer to keep an employee for breaking federal law, even if it is medically required.
You would just test positive for two drugs then. It's not like these are just Pass/Fail. They tell you what they detected.
Just keep doing what you're doing, and you should be fine. Get an at home test a week before they test you and see whether to ramp up working out and stuff or keep on. I had a friend go from smoking every day to passing a test in less than a month by working out a lot and drinking lots of water, so you should be fine doing what you're doing. Just don't drink a bunch of water the day of cause that can be considered diluting urine, and is a fail in some cases.
That's a possibility, but not guaranteed. Some jobs are in fact looking for weed. Particularly those that rely on federal funding. It's not something to risk a job over one way or another.
My old roommate got around a piss test using a drink kit from his head shop ($60 10 years ago). He drank a big bottle of stuff 2 hours before the test, pissed a few times and then drank another bottle and had to hold the pee in. He was a HEAVY daily smoker and passed the piss test no problem. I think worst case w/ those kits is your piss is too diluted and they make you take it again but that would be some more time to let it get out of your system.
OP, if you are going to try the "stop smoking, drink a bunch of water and work out route" be sure to get some urine test strips cheap from Amazon and test yourself BEFORE daring to go to the real thing. You will likely fail your self test at which point you enact Plan B, which is having either synthetic urine or a clean sample from a friend you are 100% sure is clean ready to go. If you have used everyday for some time, these days with most everyone using medicinal grade, 30 days or a month rule of thumb no longer applies. My last 2 job changes, I was on day 60 of being clean and still failing the urine strip tests and ended up using clean samples from friends.
I had a hair test before my job and it took 2.5 months before I was confident. I also purchased a hair test from a local provider to check prior, about 100 bucks.
They also did mouth swabs to cover 7 most recent days the hair test doesn't cover.
You cannot beat a hair test. It is impossible. You have to wait 7 days after your last use, shave your head hair down and then grow clean. Hair grows 13 millimeters a month. Usually they required 38mm or 1.5 inches for test.
They also did mouth swabs to cover 7 most recent days the hair test doesn't cover.
You cannot beat a hair test. It is impossible. You have to wait 7 days after your last use, shave your head hair down and then grow clean. Hair grows 13 millimeters a month. Usually they required 38mm or 1.5 inches for test.
Do those tests also check for alcohol or is it just hypocrisy all the way?
Are those tests about legality of substances or rather that they don't trust a person who does substances to do this job (which may be a reasonable thing to do if said job can put other people in danger)?
Are those tests about legality of substances or rather that they don't trust a person who does substances to do this job (which may be a reasonable thing to do if said job can put other people in danger)?