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zerocool84

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Get your whole body waxed. Head, eyebrows, eyelashes, arm hair, butt hair, leg hair everything. Only way to be sure.
 

TestedAcorn

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Originally posted by: zerocool84
Get your whole body waxed. Head, eyebrows, eyelashes, arm hair, butt hair, leg hair everything. Only way to be sure.

Should i nuke the hair from orbit afterward?
 

Nik

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Originally posted by: TestedAcorn
Ok here's my situation. I got interviewed for a job last week and they may be calling me tomorrow to take a drug test. I'm not sure if it's going to be urine, hair, saliva, or blood.
Ok so i've only smoked about 4 times in my life, once in february, twice in march, and once in april. Do you think i'll be able to pass any if not all of these tests?

If it's a UA, the only way you'd test positive is if you're morbidly obese, never exercise, eat sugary and fatty foods, and have a terrible metabolism. Same with blood and saliva tests. The only way you'd test positive is with a hair test.
 

TestedAcorn

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Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: TestedAcorn
Ok here's my situation. I got interviewed for a job last week and they may be calling me tomorrow to take a drug test. I'm not sure if it's going to be urine, hair, saliva, or blood.
Ok so i've only smoked about 4 times in my life, once in february, twice in march, and once in april. Do you think i'll be able to pass any if not all of these tests?

If it's a UA, the only way you'd test positive is if you're morbidly obese, never exercise, eat sugary and fatty foods, and have a terrible metabolism. Same with blood and saliva tests. The only way you'd test positive is with a hair test.

I do that but i'm not overweight and my metabolism is fairly high.
 

zerocool84

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Originally posted by: TestedAcorn
Originally posted by: zerocool84
Get your whole body waxed. Head, eyebrows, eyelashes, arm hair, butt hair, leg hair everything. Only way to be sure.

Should i nuke the hair from orbit afterward?

Only way to be sure.
 

Nik

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Originally posted by: Eli
:laugh:

Unless they do a hair test, which is very rare I might add, you'll pass with flying colors.

You have to smoke every day for months or even years for it to take more than a couple of weeks to be clean.

Not true at all. Even smoking an 8th in 4 days and being clean for a week or more before repeating and doing so for 2 or 3 months, *cough* some people *cough* piss dirty for 45 days. I, uh, know somebody who was clean for more than a month after said schedule and, even with a system cleanser used properly was pissing dirty.
 

SirStev0

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where is it at? at some local clinic/hospital it will probably be a piss test. You'll be absolutely fine if it is a piss test. MJ is usually out in two or three weeks from urine.

Unless you lost a bunch of weight recently. Some evidence says that THC can be released from fat cells.

Assuming your job doesn't involve security clearance they won't waste their money on a hair test. If they do, you are screwed. They can detect THC in any hair on the body and and that is there until you cut it off.

Be sure to be honest about any over the counter drugs you are taking. If you are taking anything with Pseudoephedrine in it you will pop for methamphetmines. Phenylephrine, which is replacing psuedo as a cheaper and none meth making substitute will not.

There are quite a few other OTC and perscription drugs that will cause you problems as well. Make sure to mention them.
 

SirStev0

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Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: pontifex
i'm doing a crappy call center tech support job and i had to get a hair test done.

No shit? That's crazy.

I thought it was a bit odd too. I am employed through a temp agency though. Not sure if that was a requirement of the temp agency or the actual place I work at.


the real answer though is don't do drugs. then you don't have to worry about it.

or go to an outdoor concert. I went to see George Strait, you know the godfather of country, and there was pot smoke everywhere. I could have easily popped a drug test if I went a few days later.

The fact is that drug tests are stupid. Most of the drugs that are actually worth a damn get out of your system in a few days. Any idiot can knock off the meth or coke for a few days if they want the job.
 

theeedude

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I think the only company I applied to in college that drug tested was Intel. I don't use anything, but the fact that they feel they can invade their employees privacy like that made me less interested in working there and I took another offer.
 

Glitchny

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lol you will be fine, most jobs do not do hair tests or blood tests as they are too expensive, and you are well within safe limits for urine and saliva tests.


hell the Nevada Gaming commission only did a urine test
 

manimal

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How long would a habitual smoker need to pass clean, 45 days for mj? Im getting my nephew an interview where I work and I suspect that kid smokes....
 

SacrosanctFiend

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Originally posted by: SirStev0
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: pontifex
i'm doing a crappy call center tech support job and i had to get a hair test done.

No shit? That's crazy.

I thought it was a bit odd too. I am employed through a temp agency though. Not sure if that was a requirement of the temp agency or the actual place I work at.


the real answer though is don't do drugs. then you don't have to worry about it.

or go to an outdoor concert. I went to see George Strait, you know the godfather of country, and there was pot smoke everywhere. I could have easily popped a drug test if I went a few days later.

The fact is that drug tests are stupid. Most of the drugs that are actually worth a damn get out of your system in a few days. Any idiot can knock off the meth or coke for a few days if they want the job.


BS. You are not going to test above the 50ng/ml threshold for THC from second-hand inhalation at an outdoor concert. You would have to be locked in a phone booth with 7 guys smoking a blunt the size of an alternator for 3 hours before you would test positive.
 

Titan

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for weed? blood or hair will be fine. If you were a daily smoker it takes 30 days off to leave the system, max. That's even if it stays in your fat or you're old so you metabolize it slower.

Certain things stay in hair for way long, but those tests are rare and controversial. And you can always shave your head. I doubt they will do it in the US. But yeah, THC stays in your hair which grows like 6 inches a year.
 

Nik

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Originally posted by: Titan
for weed? blood or hair will be fine. If you were a daily smoker it takes 30 days off to leave the system, max. That's even if it stays in your fat or you're old so you metabolize it slower.

Certain things stay in hair for way long, but those tests are rare and controversial. And you can always shave your head. I doubt they will do it in the US. But yeah, THC stays in your hair which grows like 6 inches a year.

30 days is a common misconception.
 

Juddog

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Hair depends entirely on when that hair was grown, typically 90 days for an inch and a half. It's a good idea to get a hair cut regardless in order so that you look neat and tidy.
 

xSauronx

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Originally posted by: Chronoshock
Originally posted by: TestedAcorn
Originally posted by: Safeway
They will most likely take a urine test, which you would pass with flying colors.

I was assuming this and just about praying to god it is this. It's the least expensive but it's also the least accurate :/ I also think i'd pass a blood or saliva test (based on internet research) :p

Pee is almost always the primary test. Don't worry about. You're about to get tested little acorn

i had a mouth swab

held it in all morning and needed to go...and got a mouth swab :(
 

Q

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Originally posted by: senseamp
I think the only company I applied to in college that drug tested was Intel. I don't use anything, but the fact that they feel they can invade their employees privacy like that made me less interested in working there and I took another offer.

Good excuse
 

narzy

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If you are really worried you can use the fake pee. You tape a catheter line to the base of your manhood and stick the urine bag between your butt cheeks. when they make you 'go' you squeeze your butt to put pressure on the bag and 'wizz' the fake pee in the cup.

I've never done this so YMMV.
 

Porter21

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Everything but the hair test I believe. I can't believe you are still worrying about it when it was April!