Concern About Job Hiring

[Tiger Bass 5,000+ posts]

Folicle tests cost lots of money. Money that your average job doesnt have. Hair is dead and grows out in segments. Thus, if you smoked last week, the drug isn't going to show up in the tip of your hair. It will show up at the base or maybe even the root. But if you are still worried about it, just get a medium length hair cut and trim all your hair down to about half length. I couldnt imagine having to do anymore than that with it being almost a year now. Just don't over do it on the trimming though otherwise it will be pretty obvious. And if you havent smoked for over a year, there's nothing to worry about a piss test. That will usually clear within 2 weeks to 2 months, depending on how fat you are and how regular of a smoker you were.

As for the traffic ticket, I don't think that's exactly what the place in concerned about, unless you are applying for a driving position. But they are probably worried about criminal convictions like theft, murder, etc.

All in all, you should be fine.

 

[Team Hammer 10+ year member]

You show up with a full body wax job. Your finger and toe nails are all pulled off. Your ear hair is missing. You have no eye lashes or nose hair.

Ummm, Were sorry we hired someone from India that would do it for $8.00hr and no benefits. But here is a bottle pain pills

 

[dumple 5,000+ posts]

wear a wig

 

[hardhitta47 10+ year member]

thc is stored in your body's fat cells, and if you were a daily smoker it will accumulate and stay in your body longer than an occasional smoker.

either way, if you haven't smoked in a year and the only problems you've had with tha law is traffic shit, you'll be fine. Just be honest. I don't know what FRY's is, but hair testing is some serious shit. Your hair won't lie. As far as I know, the hair has to be pulled. And yes, they will pull pubic hair. IF you shaved your entire body, not only would you look like a cancer patient, but they'd either wait for it to grow back or just say get lost.

Seriously though, I doubt they test hair. So what you smoked weed a year ago..why try to hide it? Let your resume and interviewing skills speak for themselves. If they don't hire you, fuck em.

 

[w00tah 10+ year member]

Hair testing does lie. With that form of testing it can't tell the difference between you smoked a joint, or someone around you smoked a joint. Not only that, but environmental factors can cause a false positive. It's just like saliva testing, it's not accurate enough to be used for a standard test.

Piss testing = teh norm.

Blood testing = teh screwed

Patch test = military or prisoner, hard as hell to beat, but possible.

Hair and saliva testing = common, but not as accurate as piss or blood

Reading High Times articles that can be backed up with other info > j00

Morgan

 

[69420potsmoker 10+ year member]

"3.5 Hair testing

When THC metabolites are in the blood, they go through the blood vessels

in the head, and get ltered through the hair. THC metabolites remain in

the hair as a permanent record. The hair test costs several hundred dollars

($150-300) and is rarely given because urinalysis is cheaper (approximately

$65) and more accurate. (The hair test equipment and setup goes for over

a million). According to Je Nightbyrd, hair tests are "widely used in the

casino industry." They cut 50 strands of hair from the scalp, and send it in

3.5. HAIR TESTING 23

to the testing lab where they liquefy it. "A hair sample is disolved in a series

of solvents which extract the drug metabolites and then are analyzed via

GC/MS." It can take from several hours to days just to extract metabolites.

Average hair grows 1/4 inch per month. Typically they just use hair one and

a half inches from the scalp; though some labs will take enough to test for up

to 3 years. The liquid is run through the most sensitive GC/MS machines

available, and can detect as little as 1 ng/mL! The hair test discriminates in

that detection is easier in dark hair. Colored people may be discriminated

against further because melanin is in their hair, which can be mistaken for

THC. However, there is con

icting data as to whether melanin can be detected

as THC."

---Fooling the cops: the complete drugtesting guide.pdf

I recently did a hair test for a casino and I got the job so they either dont care or didnt find anything. I quit smoking about 4 months before the test give or take a month. I went in thinking they were going to take a strand of my hair and the took a regular finger length haircut snip.

"Substance Screening GC/MS Confrmation/Cutoff

Amphetamines 500/ 500

Methamphetamines 200/ 500

Barbituates 200/ 100

Cocaine 150/ 150

Marijuana 5/0 15

Opiates 1 300/ 300

Phenyclidine 25/ 25

All cuto levels are in nanograms/mL

2.3Passive smoke and positives

"Second hand marijuana smoke in a car can cause you to fail the next day"

(Nightbyrd). It is possible that second hand [marijuana] smoke will raise

someone to the 50 ng/mL level; however, extreme exposure is required.

For instance, a closed car full of pot smokers and a non-smoker may render

the non-smoker positive for both urinalysis and the hair test, provided that

they are sealed in the car for a while. The Army did a case study where

volunteers were put in a room pumped full of smoke for an hour, ve times

daily. Subjects started testing positive after the second day. The non-smoker

would have to take in virtually as much second hand smoke as a smoker

inhales. Non-smokers are safe in a ventilated area, as long as they don't get

a hair test. According to Clinton, simply blowing crack smoke on ones hair

may cause a positive hair test. Second hand pot smoke doesn't aect the

hair test results as much as crack smoke does mainly because exhaled smoke

contains no THC. The only pot smoke that contains THC is the smoke that

hasn't entered the lungs.

for some reason the f's are squares but I changed some????????

 

[BoomBoomBoy 10+ year member]

will I haven't done drugs since april of last year. I use to smoke pot and they say it stays in your hair for a long time.

Hair grows at 1/2"/month. Take the amount of months you've been 'clean', multiply that by .5 and that's how long your hair should be for a hair test.