Quote Originally Posted by surfermang
Well,
It depends on your employer... The lab jobs i'm applying for will do the 15ng cutoff(lame). I'm not sure how it is where you are from, but in Hawaii I'd say about 75% of the population are occassional smokers. They come down pretty hard with job drug testing. I think that they do a 15ng EMIT(more expensive/more accurate version), this isn't as bad as MS though, I have had a lot of experience with mass spec and I strongly believe that MS detects much lower than 15ng/ml, why would they run this expensive test to only detect the sample at 15ng/ml, I'm fairly sure that it can detect less than 10ng/ml. Well I'm semi-worried because it is a diagnostic laboratory and if they do a MS off the start I'm screwed(praying for an EMIT). Thanks for the input guys. Anything else any of you recommend? I know that if I get caught subbing it will hurt me a lot more than if I get a dilute negative and I'm almost 100% sure that the unrine analysis is supervised(stand behind you and stare at you creepily). So idk about subbing... I think I'm going to try to stay really active up until 3 days before then eat tons of red meats til the test and then diulte w/ the stickied method but substitute water with gatorade/powerade.

P.S. I have used the dilution stickied method once before and it worked. It was after smoking 1/2 ounce with my buddy in 1 weeks time, then the drug test was 9 days after that... I was really nervous but the dilution worked, it was a 5 panel EMIT and the supervisor for the urine analysis said that it was okay darkness/warmth. I B.S.'d her and said that I was holding my urine in all morning and wanted to take the test because I really had to pee(but it was really i was so waterlogged and diluted as a motha). Well I do approve of this stickied method and it has worked for me, but that was for a summer job where I suspect the company used one of the very cheap 5 panel tests.

Labs/fortune 500 companies communicate with eachother and if you get caught with a positive in one, all the others know... so you are screwed if you fail... it's a scary thing for your entire future to be hanging in the balance over something so harmless as recreational marijuana smoking... legalize it.

That is flippin crazy and now I am scared as fck. What kind of lab job are you applying for? Mine is with a research institute associated with a major university... so, I am expecting the very worst. Not sure if it matters but I'm in FL.. duno what the standards are over here. I imagine it'll take longer than two weeks to get my metabolite levels below 15 ng/ml.

A friend of mine was offered a pharmacy internship, contingent upon a clean drug test, so she abstained for 50 days and came up positive (85 ng/ml) even though her home test indicated clean.

Is there not some privacy clause that prevents information about your drug tests from being distributed? It seems so anti-HIPAA. I don't know. Maybe since they're paying for you to take the test you have zero say in anything.

Please, someone offer some more (hopefully uplifting) information......