Need feedback please. I'm new here!

I just registered for this site today. Nobody even knows I'm here, much less that I'm butt3rcup29. Sooo....Elaboration. Here goes.

Two and a half years ago, my ex-mother-in-law was granted custody of my two younger kids. My daughter is still with me. The judge listened to her parade her stream of liars into the courtroom and didn't drug-test me (which I would have passed with flying colors, I'd been clean for over a year) and awarded her custody of the boys. I told him then, respectfully, that she's white trash, and sooner or later CPS would take the kids from her and it would be his fault. He didn't listen. A week and a half ago, CPS made a visit to her home and it was disgusting. No electricity, dog crap everywhere, the boys hadn't eaten in two days and one of them had a tick attached to his ear, feeding. Trash piled up everywhere and cockroaches crawling out of every crevice, probably 10x more bugs than square footage. Not a scrap of food in the house. None. Not even a potato. They removed the kids and placed them in foster care. My ex-husband and I were notified and called in to an emergency placement hearing. Apparently the judge realized his error in judgement. We were both tested, both failed for pot, but both honest. We were both scheduled for a retest and the boys are still in foster care. If I fail the second one there won't be a third, and the kids will stay where they are until my exMIL cleans up and gets them back. If I pass, they'll come home with me. I've also filed full custody papers and if I don't pass this screen I'm SOL. I'm not smoking anymore, it's just not worth it in my situation, but I need to clean up fast so I can pass the test. I won't have to worry about this again.

So no, I'm not facing jail time or loss of employment. I'm facing the loss of my children. It is life-or-death that I pass.

BUT a false positive would f**k me. It's an instant-read cup, and if I fail on-site my kids are gone. Even if it comes back later that it was falsely positive and I have to retest, I don't want them left in the system any longer than absolutely necessary.

From the situation youve described, youre not on court-ordered probation for a criminal offense in which your rights had been revoked. Therefore, you have a right to have a confirmation test. In this case, any pony-tailed attorney would tell you that no court will sustain a positive result on the sole basis of an instant assay, which lacks the ability to provide a quantitative value (unlike the GC/MS) to seal the deal on the evidentiary front.

Thanks for all your help and advice. On some other threads I've read, I've seen people badmouth you for acting like a know-it-all, so I was nervous the first time I saw you had commented on my question, but I don't find you to be overbearing at all. Just full of useful information. Again, I thank you.

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On some other threads I've read, I've seen people badmouth you for acting like a know-it-all

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If this is so, can you please go to each thread that youve seen, and click on that little black triangular icon with the white "!" in its center - located at the bottom left corner of all posts, so I can have a look at them?
Thanks.

They are old posts (circa 2006) from the Substitution sticky by N2, and I think you've already addressed them. I flagged a couple though so you could see what I was talking about. I haven't explored a lot of the newer threads, I don't have the answers anyone is looking for. The only ones I've checked out are the ones where the posters are in a boat similar to mine, with around 2 weeks to clean up, only to see if any of the advice was applicable to me.

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Originally Posted by Burnt Toast

Actually DDM, its okay for the O/P to take a home test tomorrow morning when waking up so s/he gets an idea where s/he stands. :thumbsup:
The O/P should then take a second home test 3 days before the scheduled U/A (again using the first void of the day). If the O/P's second test is "dirty", then s/he can began creatine-loading that same day in preparation to use N2's Dilution technique on the day of the scheduled U/A.

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Yes BT, great advise as always, thank you. To add to that butt3rcup29, if you use the First Check Home THC drug test and fail it, you can mail it in to get a free GC/MS run on your sample. This will give you an exact quantitative level of the THCA in your system. You will know exactly how close you are to the 15ng cut off level you are at. NOW would be an excellent time to get your home drug test (~$18 at a drug store), use it tomorrow, using your first urination of the day when you wake up and mail that sucker in before lunch tomorrow. You can view the results online or by phone within 5-7 days and you'll know where you stand (follow the directions on the box exactly).

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Originally Posted by butt3rcup29

They are old posts (circa 2006) from the Substitution sticky by N2, and I think you've already addressed them. I flagged a couple though so you could see what I was talking about.

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Hit your Notifications tab, located at the top where you log in/out.

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To add to that butt3rcup29, if you use the First Check Home THC drug test and fail it, you can mail it in to get a free GC/MS run on your sample. This will give you an exact quantitative level of the THCA in your system. You will know exactly how close you are to the 15ng cut off level you are at. NOW would be an excellent time to get your home drug test (~$18 at a drug store), use it tomorrow, using your first urination of the day when you wake up and mail that sucker in before lunch tomorrow. You can view the results online or by phone within 5-7 days and you'll know where you stand (follow the directions on the box exactly).

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Keep in mind that she would have to send in a vial of her urine sample for a GC/MS to be performed. A used THC test kit by itself wouldnt be of much use to the lab tech.

I wish I had the option to sub. I have a perfectly clean donor (my little sister in med school) and she understands what's going on. She has no objections to helping me out. When I say I will be watched, that's not exactly carved in stone...I mean, the last test was a surprise, and the CPS worker herself took me into the courthouse bathroom where I was allowed to close the stall door but she stayed right outside. I worry, though, that since I failed it, I will be watched during the next one. Any thoughts? I'm not a criminal on parole or probation or something, technically I should still have my rights, right? Would it be worth it to risk it?