What do people drink to clear their system of weed?

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fredtam

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It is already been said but thc will remain in fat stores. There are quite a few products on the market that will help though. Golden Seal is one. If you are really active and drink lots of water you should be clean to a urine test in 7 days othjerwise your looking around 30.
 

TechnoKid

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Wouldn't sweating in a sauna and drinking lots of gatorade/drinks like gatorade help you loose water content faster?
 

JonnyBlaze

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not sure what the test is for, but for some of em you can bring someone else's piss that you know is clean.

tests for probation they watch you piss so ya cant do it then

JB
 

Babbles

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Originally posted by: Mwilding
The product everyone gets for this is Goldenseal Root. Basically it makes you pee like a race horse and you have to drink huge quantities of water to not dehydrate. Alternatively, you can "push" fluids rather than "pull" by just drinking a lot so it is kind of a worthless product...

And if you think just chugging 2 gallons of water just before the test will accomplish anything, you are wrong. You urine will fail the specific gravity test and you will have to return to take the test again. FYI - specific gravity is simply a measure of how dilute your urine is. It has to be at a certain level to make the test meaningful.

Yeah, what that guy said.

Also a test to determine your creatine level is performed and that too will determine if you are trying to flush your system out. Most labs do a two-fold test, a screening test where the specific gravity, creatine and immuno-assay test is done. Diluted urine can show up as negative for the immuno assay (which is essentially putting a bit of drug metabolite specific enzymes in with the sampled urine and photometrically determine which drug(s) are present) however again the specific gravity and creatine levels will show that the urine sample was intentionally diluted.
The second sets of tests is a GC/MS test confirmation - dilution has no affect at all on this. Drug metabolites are removed from the aqueous medium (i.e. urine), extracted and dervitized into some volatile solvent (e.g. chloroform, ethyl actate, acetone, methylene chloride, etc).

Many of those 'cleansing' products are just diuretic in nature, therefore making you urinate often in hopes of diluting the urine.
As somebody else mentioned, THC is fat soluble so you need to do something to get THC out of fat so you can urinate it out of your system; that would be aerobics.

If any of you took some product and found that you passed a drug test, more than likely what really happened is that the lab noted your creatine and specific gravity levels were low however your employer probably did not want to pay the cost of a retest not to mention technically there was no proven substance in your body. However they can have it documented that your sample was unfit for analysis.
 

TechnoKid

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Originally posted by: Babbles
Originally posted by: Mwilding
The product everyone gets for this is Goldenseal Root. Basically it makes you pee like a race horse and you have to drink huge quantities of water to not dehydrate. Alternatively, you can "push" fluids rather than "pull" by just drinking a lot so it is kind of a worthless product...

And if you think just chugging 2 gallons of water just before the test will accomplish anything, you are wrong. You urine will fail the specific gravity test and you will have to return to take the test again. FYI - specific gravity is simply a measure of how dilute your urine is. It has to be at a certain level to make the test meaningful.

Yeah, what that guy said.

Also a test to determine your creatine level is performed and that too will determine if you are trying to flush your system out. Most labs do a two-fold test, a screening test where the specific gravity, creatine and immuno-assay test is done. Diluted urine can show up as negative for the immuno assay (which is essentially putting a bit of drug metabolite specific enzymes in with the sampled urine and photometrically determine which drug(s) are present) however again the specific gravity and creatine levels will show that the urine sample was intentionally diluted.
The second sets of tests is a GC/MS test confirmation - dilution has no affect at all on this. Drug metabolites are removed from the aqueous medium (i.e. urine), extracted and dervitized into some volatile solvent (e.g. chloroform, ethyl actate, acetone, methylene chloride, etc).

Many of those 'cleansing' products are just diuretic in nature, therefore making you urinate often in hopes of diluting the urine.
As somebody else mentioned, THC is fat soluble so you need to do something to get THC out of fat so you can urinate it out of your system; that would be aerobics.

If any of you took some product and found that you passed a drug test, more than likely what really happened is that the lab noted your creatine and specific gravity levels were low however your employer probably did not want to pay the cost of a retest not to mention technically there was no proven substance in your body. However they can have it documented that your sample was unfit for analysis.

What if you just happen to drink a crapload of water everyday? Is there a level or normal in determining the specific grav of ones urine? It is different for each individual, is it not?
 

Wheezer

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I had a friend who always took a bottle of Visine with him...after he filled the cup he would squirt some Visine into the sample...he did this MANY times and NEVER got busted, he was a MAJOR smoker...everyday after work...and I mean EVERY day. The ONLY time he got popped was when they did a suprise test on him and he was out in the field and was not able to get back to his locker where he kept the Visine...he failed that one.

I myself smoked 24 hours before I knew I had a test and drank A TON of water...I also the night before drank a glass of vinigar....yuk...but I passed
 

Babbles

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Originally posted by: TechnoKid


What if you just happen to drink a crapload of water everyday? Is there a level or normal in determining the specific grav of ones urine? It is different for each individual, is it not?

Sure everybody may have a slightly different specific gravity, however there are acceptable range limits. If a sample is diluted, it will be obviously so.

Also, sure it is all sorts of healthy to drink a lot of water however you can intoxicate yourself with too much water. I want to say the LD50 of water is 15 liters a day, but that may be wrong. Too much water screws up your potassium and sodium levels which are used in your neuro synaptic cleft; there is this entire acetylcholin, sodium-potassium pump, cellular polarization crap that goes on which can get screwed up if saturated with water. I also believe it can saturate your brain causing pressure which would be bad.

Again just by drinking a lot of water that does not do any good; THC is not water soluble. However, what you could possible do is perform aerobic activity which will burn fat which contains THC and then you will be elminated in your urine. Just a theory, I don't know of anybody who actually tried that.
 

deftron

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Just smoke some crack.

They'll see that on the test and not even care about the weed.



 

PKPunk

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Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: DWW
I keep hearing about drug tests on Internet forums. In fact I never heard about them before I used the Internet save for some people on probation.

Is it true you have drug tests for quite a few jobs in the USA? Thats nuts. We in Canada have our rights ... "what you do at home we don't care about" :) Can they not hire you for drug use in the USA? I can understand for certain jobs its not acceptable due to their nature (you don't want a nuclear scientist holding a big rock of something powerful to be suffering withdrawl and shaking)

For most "regular" jobs that is stupid :p
I *COMPLETELY* agree.

Drug tests are probably the most blantant invasion of privacy in existance today.

It boggles my mind how they are legal and how they even became legal in the first place. :|

Now, don't get me wrong. Any and all employers should have rules against comming to work intoxicated. That's a no-no any way you look at it.

However.....

It is none of my employers business what I do on my own time. Period.

PERIOD, damnit. It makes me angry that there are acceptions to this fundamental right granted to us by our own Constitution.

If I want to smoke a cigarette after work, I can. If I want to have a few drinks after work, I can. If I want to smoke a joint after work, I should be able to. If I want to have gay sex after work, I can. If I want to dress up in drag after work, I can. If I want to go jogging in the park after work, I can.

WTF is the difference? All that matters is that I do my job as required. If I'm a good employee, then I'm a good employee, what happens after I go home doesen't matter.


I Think drug test are the least of your problems, I know Sears and Bank of America require a credit check before they hire you. The reason they do this credit check is because they think if you have bad credit your more likely to steal...How f***'d up.

Anyways I knew a girl who worked for Bank of American and they were trying to fire her so they asked for a "random" drug test. So she went to berkeley and bought some of that drug test juice and her test came back inconclusive. So they asked for another test, this time hair and she bought that shampoo to clean her hair out and that test came back inconclusive as well so they weren't able to fire her. On a side not though she did smoke about 2-3 times day...she's what'd you'd call a heavy smoker. I bet if you only smoke every now and then that those shampoo's and special drinks would work fine.
 

sxr7171

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Originally posted by: sadb0i
my friend who joined the army told me that when he went to take the test somewhere with his recruiter, one of the other guys going told the recruiter that he had been smoking weed the night before. the recruiter had the guy drink LOTS and LOTS of gatorade. the guy took a drug test the day after he smoked weed and he passed it...

just an FYI...cause im sure no one here on ATOT smokes weed

for realz


:cool:



I heard that the main point of doing that is to dilute your urine to the point where the levels they detect are too small for a conclusive positive.


It's pretty funny some people want to pry into your affairs when you ask a question like this and other dogooders want to remind you that not "getting involved" is the best thing. BTW I've passed every drug test I've taken fair and square, but I still hate these dogooder types.
 

Nebor

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DRug tests are an easy way to pick out an undesirable character so you don't hire them. Just as if they had a thief test, or a rapist test, or a "shoots up the workplace" test.
 

sxr7171

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Originally posted by: PKPunk
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: DWW
I keep hearing about drug tests on Internet forums. In fact I never heard about them before I used the Internet save for some people on probation.

Is it true you have drug tests for quite a few jobs in the USA? Thats nuts. We in Canada have our rights ... "what you do at home we don't care about" :) Can they not hire you for drug use in the USA? I can understand for certain jobs its not acceptable due to their nature (you don't want a nuclear scientist holding a big rock of something powerful to be suffering withdrawl and shaking)

For most "regular" jobs that is stupid :p
I *COMPLETELY* agree.

Drug tests are probably the most blantant invasion of privacy in existance today.

It boggles my mind how they are legal and how they even became legal in the first place. :|

Now, don't get me wrong. Any and all employers should have rules against comming to work intoxicated. That's a no-no any way you look at it.

However.....

It is none of my employers business what I do on my own time. Period.

PERIOD, damnit. It makes me angry that there are acceptions to this fundamental right granted to us by our own Constitution.

If I want to smoke a cigarette after work, I can. If I want to have a few drinks after work, I can. If I want to smoke a joint after work, I should be able to. If I want to have gay sex after work, I can. If I want to dress up in drag after work, I can. If I want to go jogging in the park after work, I can.

WTF is the difference? All that matters is that I do my job as required. If I'm a good employee, then I'm a good employee, what happens after I go home doesen't matter.


I Think drug test are the least of your problems, I know Sears and Bank of America require a credit check before they hire you. The reason they do this credit check is because they think if you have bad credit your more likely to steal...How f***'d up.

Anyways I knew a girl who worked for Bank of American and they were trying to fire her so they asked for a "random" drug test. So she went to berkeley and bought some of that drug test juice and her test came back inconclusive. So they asked for another test, this time hair and she bought that shampoo to clean her hair out and that test came back inconclusive as well so they weren't able to fire her. On a side not though she did smoke about 2-3 times day...she's what'd you'd call a heavy smoker. I bet if you only smoke every now and then that those shampoo's and special drinks would work fine.




Pretty much every company I know checks your credit before hiring you.

 

Nocturnal

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There are drinks that clean your system out for say a few hours just so you can be clean when you take your test. I don't know if they work all 100% but I know I've seen them around at these local "SPY" shops that sell hidden cameras and what not.
 

alkemyst

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Originally posted by: Nebor
DRug tests are an easy way to pick out an undesirable character so you don't hire them. Just as if they had a thief test, or a rapist test, or a "shoots up the workplace" test.

Comparing theft or rape to recreational drug use is sort of retarded.

There are many people that have good evidence that cigarettes and caffiene are more damaging than marijuana.

As far as undesirables, I have known some quite outstanding citizens (donations, volunteering, ultra wealthy) that smoke 'weed'....I know a lot that will smoke it, but not touch alcohol.

It's clearly a matter government's line in the sand....not what's good for it's people.

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