The Drug Screening Question on Everybody's Mind

The third factor is Marijuana use.

Someone who only smokes once a month will be much less likely to fail a drug test than who smokes 3 times a day. The issue here is simple summation. If you smoke once a month, then metabolites from only one joint will be distributed throughout your body. The chances of enough metabolites being present in the urine you give on the test day is comparatively low. On the other hand, if you smoke several times a day, you're filling fat cells with a snowball effect. Since THC metabolites take longer to excrete than other metabolites, smoking regularly will keep adding more and more. Therefore, if you only smoke once a month, your chances for passing a drug test are relatively higher.

A final note. Urine marijuana tests are different from hair or blood tests. Hardly anyone will test your blood for marijuana's THC metabolites, unless you're in a rehab program or perhaps applying for a government position. THC metabolites don't stay in blood for more than a couple of days. Urine test is the most popular form of drug testing. All of the aforementioned factors we discussed are with regard to URINE drug testing. A hair test cannot be beaten. They are rare, usually only used by employers in certain education and government fields. But they are pernicious due to their mechanism. When you smoke, marijuana metabolites are circulated through your bloodstream and some end up in the nourishing blood vessels of hair follicles. Marijuana metabolites are then trapped in the keratin in the hair and cannot be removed by any lifestyle changes or commercial preparations (despite what internet ads claim!).

So, what can we conclude from this? If you're run / bike / swim regularly, drink a lot of water, can eat a cow and not get fat, and smoke marijuana only once a month, then you can expect to see those metabolites gone from your system in as little as 3 days. If you're overweight, drink more coffee than water, gain weight easily, don't exercise and smoke three times a day, then you can expect metabolites to be detectable up to and OVER 30 days. The painful fact is that the only way to be sure about being able to pass a drug test is to abstain from smoking at least a month before the test. Many of us don't have the luxury of knowing about a test this far in advance. The best you can do on short notice is to put your body through some hearty exercise, drink a lot of water, and STOP smoking until after the test. If you fail, you fail. Perhaps it'll be a learning experience or perhaps not.

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