Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana
by flukus on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:07AM
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The problem is how long MJ stays in your system. It's like getting drunk one weekend and then fired for failing an intoxication test a month later.
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Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana
by tunap on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @10:43AM
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Unsure of costs, but there is a viable alternative to urine. It's shortcoming, if you can call it that, is it only tests for drug ingestion in short-term of a few hours. IMO, that is the limit an employer's interest should cover, while at work. After work is not anyone else's business but the adult practitioner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saliva_testing#Chemical_substa...
Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana
by lightedman on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @10:51AM
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Not really. If you're a very occasional smoker (1 time a week) and exercise regularly and eat right, you'd be clean and clear after a couple of days. It's the constant users that build up levels of THC that can last upwards of TWO MONTHS in their system.
Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana
by brazzledazzle on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @01:18AM
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But realistically if you're getting a urine test relating to work most people are going to get enough privacy to bring and use someone else's urine to fill the cup. Not to mention most of the time you're going to get lead time unless you're working with machinery.
Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana
by nommm-nommm on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @01:43PM
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Have you ever been drug screened? There's varying levels of privacy allowed depending on the company doing the screening (including absolutely none) but there's lots of policies in place to where using someone else's urine is very difficult to impossible. Part of my spouse's current job is to watch people pee for drug tests. Also I've heard of at least one company that does hair tests.
Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana
by xkcd-sucks on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @06:30PM
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If you have enough forewarning to catheterize yourself and fill up with clean urine beforehand it's a non-issue. Obviously this is sensitive to how things are scheduled, but tends to work pretty well when one isn't closely watched between getting notice of the test and getting tested