how long does thc stay in your system

[accessndx]

Any chance of getting some links to good @ home tests? The most sensitive and quality ones preferrably....can't be taking any chances on a Wallmart drug test....

3 months eh? I've been smoking hardcore for 20+ years.....very rarely take a day off. Haven't seen the inside of a gym since high school. The couch is an extreme sport for me.
An eighth a day is a conservative estimate.

You think 3 months will dry this ol' stoner out? I'd like to know 4 sure for obvious reasons. If I play this too close I'm looking at disastrous. I don't mind a bit of overkill to be safe....but I'd like to minimize as much of that overkill as possible.
My thought process was that 6 months would be safe considering the history. If I could cut it back to 3 months, I've got that much more time to be baked, fried and on the side.

 

[dagnabit]

But for the love of all that's sacred: if I could just get some consensus on what's the line in the sand for a fatty stoner that has been smoking like an 1/8th or more per day for decades...along with edibles and all other sorts of debauchery....I'd be psyched.

5 months? 4 months? 3 months? Anyone....Bueller....Bueller?

im a fatty debaucherus stoner...
my max is 45 days.
i've had great success with the flood method but it is bad for you and dangerous..
90 days should be waaay good even if you are a complete tub 'o goo.
i mean if you are one of those bed ridden morbid motherfuckers you got bigger(no pun intended)problems to worry about..
besides they will need a forklift and to cut down a wall to get at you anyway.

 

[Hammerhead]

I have used the ones at Walgreens. Cant remember what brand they where.. It tells you if your possitive /negative nothing more then that

 

[Chillb]

From personal experience many maaaany moons ago ... daily smoker for many months (homegrown nl #5) took 48 days to clear out... was working 2 physical jobs at the time even.

 

[GP73LPC]

as others have said, 90 days is better than good...

that is overkill !!!

good luck

 

[qupee]

agree or disagree what I stated is factual, your results are just different and doesn't make my results incorrect in the least.

everyone is different and like I said it is BEST to get some at home tests and do your own test to see what amount of days is needed based on YOUR smoking habits.

by the way 50ng is common and the only one worth using unless we are talking prison,fed issues

This is the only good advice here. Test yourself. Everyone is different.

My lengthy experience with drug tests echo medmaker's and I can go from heavy daily smoking to clean in under a week. When I was a teenager it was 3 or 4 days, now that I am in my thirties and overweight it is 6-8 days. From heavy, daily smoking. One time use currently takes me 72 hours to reliably test clean. However, I have seen enough people emphatically state they test dirty for 30-45 days to know it is silly to think everyone's results will be similar. No online calculator or DOS app is going to account for interpersonal differences.

I have been on probation or parole including drug tests almost continuously, aside from some of the times I've been incarcerated, since I was 15, and I am now in my 30's. I have tirelessly researched drug testing and personally tried any method ever mentioned online for beating urine tests, and most methods I've tried on many occasions.

Any chance of getting some links to good @ home tests? The most sensitive and quality ones preferrably....can't be taking any chances on a Wallmart drug test....

Here: http://www.amazon.com/Drug-Test-Marijuana-Urine-Strips/dp/B001YYTDLS

Walmart ones are fine, but they are like $15 each. These are just as good.

Couple things to note. These home tests aren't perfect. If I lack confidence in the result I take 3 tests in short order rather than just 1. These tests are also sensitive to temperature and you want to keep them at room temp, don't leave them in the car, high heat will destroy them. Also, you need to make sure enough urine is picked up by the strip - sometimes the instructions will say hold in urine for 3-5 seconds and that is often not enough, wait until you see the urine hit the strip above the collection sponge.

One other thing to note, these tests have a 50ng/ml cutoff, and a GC/MS lab test will have a 15ng/ml cutoff; however, the cutoffs are similar because the dip tests will cross-react with other metabolites whereas the GC/MS is completely specific to one metabolite (THC-COOH). If you can reliably pass a dip test at 50 you should be passing a GC/MS at 15 (or be very, very close).

 

[lophing highena]

I am not a chronic user. I rarely use cannabis. When I do I can feel lasting effects for at least 5 days. I am more relaxed and I sleep better and I have a light tingly feeling in my body. I think this indicates the presence of some active components of cannabis.

 

[moose eater]

Body fat % content, frequency of use, potency of what's being used, amount ingested at any given time, metabolism, etc. all play into how long you'll test positive for THC.

1 week to 6 months are legitimate short and long term estimates based on the answers to those criteria. Though the 6 months case was a special/extreme circumstance involving a number of variables.

Now deceased Dr. John Morgan MD, CUNY Professor, and Co-Author of 'Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts' which he co-authored with his also now-deceased significant other, Dr. Lynn Zimmer, PhD., stated the longest case he was personally familiar with, involving a confirmed positive after confirmed abstinance, was 58 days.

Both of them were amazing people. Long-missed in this dying war. Dr. John received the informal 'Oldest Guy at the Rave Award' one evening. They had heart, with a capital 'H.'

 

[St. Phatty]

I've never heard of anything longer than 30 days.

Exercise and drinking lots of water helps.

Of course, if this is for a test for a job or security clearance, it's normal to take hair tests.

Which means shaving above and below the belt, a day or 2 after you stop consuming Cannabis.

 

[Douglas.Curtis]

Urine tests can be passed easily with 24hrs notice. Doesn't matter who you are or how much you smoke, unless you have some bionic kidneys which filter faster for some reason.

Drink water till you are peeing every 10-15 minutes. (This only takes a few hours)
Take a B-complex vitamin 1-2hrs before the test
On the way to the testing place make sure to stop just before it and piss
Sign in for the test and you should be ready to piss again in only a few minutes
Take the test

Kidney tissue can only process so much per minute, and not enough metabolites can be processed in 10 minutes to test dirty. The B-complex makes sure the specific gravity is high enough to put off suspicion. You want lightly yellow urine, not super colored from the B-vitamins.

 

[St. Phatty]

There's got to be some chemical that isn't harmful to health, that will round up all the THC and route it to the kidneys.

 

[chilliwilli]

Urine tests can be passed easily with 24hrs notice. Doesn't matter who you are or how much you smoke, unless you have some bionic kidneys which filter faster for some reason.

Drink water till you are peeing every 10-15 minutes. (This only takes a few hours)
Take a B-complex vitamin 1-2hrs before the test
On the way to the testing place make sure to stop just before it and piss
Sign in for the test and you should be ready to piss again in only a few minutes
Take the test

Kidney tissue can only process so much per minute, and not enough metabolites can be processed in 10 minutes to test dirty. The B-complex makes sure the specific gravity is high enough to put off suspicion. You want lightly yellow urine, not super colored from the B-vitamins.

I had to take piss testes after getting caught and they also checked for creatinine. I faild the first because of that. My pee was clean but creatinine was to low so i had to do the test again.

 

[moose eater]

There's got to be some chemical that isn't harmful to health, that will round up all the THC and route it to the kidneys.

'Flushing', as defined by Douglas.Curtis above, but using high pectin fruit juice (the highest concentration of which is unfiltered apple cider, to rthe best of my knowledge) acts as a sort of saw dust on an oil spill sort of thing in your kidneys and bladder. But it's only a temporary benefit, just like flushing, as the metabolyte is still concentrated in the fatty tissues, and the kidney/bladder is all that's receiving a temporary 'cleansing.'

It's also a no-go for diabetics, unless one is willing to risk diabetic shock to beat a UA.

Also, if you're heading into a test where 'they'll' be looking at multiple issues in a complete panel, say, for buying life insurance, etc., then raised levels in the blood work, beyond the UA for dope, wil also throw flags and potentially affect the eligibility for insurance, or rates paid. Been there and done that.

Edit: You can also add powdered pectin (such as is used for making jello, jam, or jelly) to H2O and drink that, but not as palatable as unfiltered apple cider..

 

[St. Phatty]

We should start a rumor that "eating rotten eggs soaks up THC" ... just to watch people's faces as they eat those rotten eggs.

 

[RottyRzr]

I once applied for a job at a transportation company and they gave me a urine test. I was clean since I hadn't smoked any in over a year so I had no worries. The test was scheduled at like 10am and the morning of the test I had breakfast and a couple cups of coffee like normal. I took a leak before leaving the house and stopped at a fast food joint and got another coffee. (I love coffee) When I took the test I had to really go from drinking all the coffee. I gave my sample with complete confidence. I was told the test was gonna be sent off to another state for the lab test since they used the best lab in the States. They also said that they could detect THC 90 days after last use. This was a large transportation company and they were serious. Anyway, the results came back failed due to a dilute sample. I didnt get the job due to drinking coffee! Not weed!
Be careful drinking too much water before the test.

 

[moose eater]

I once applied for a job at a transportation company and they gave me a urine test. I was clean since I hadn't smoked any in over a year so I had no worries. The test was scheduled at like 10am and the morning of the test I had breakfast and a couple cups of coffee like normal. I took a leak before leaving the house and stopped at a fast food joint and got another coffee. (I love coffee) When I took the test I had to really go from drinking all the coffee. I gave my sample with complete confidence. I was told the test was gonna be sent off to another state for the lab test since they used the best lab in the States. They also said that they could detect THC 90 days after last use. This was a large transportation company and they were serious. Anyway, the results came back failed due to a dilute sample. I didnt get the job due to drinking coffee! Not weed!
Be careful drinking too much water before the test.

Not every place tests for dillution via creatinine levels, but some do; especially the more serious places. Though I think they're dwindling in numbers, unless DoT/DoD involved, as yours was.

In the days of old they used cheapo EMIT tests, known for false positives and false negatives, both, and if positive, and they were serious about testing, protecting themselves from both sides (insurance and the testee), they would often get a confirmation via a more proper analysis.

Pectin, as a 'cleanser', with volumes of water, goes back a long ways, but when I ingested a shitload of unfiltered apple cider and Mountian Dew, driving through the night, on my way to a town 300+ miles away for an early morning lab draw and related contracts about 30 years ago or so, my triglycerides were way elevated as a result, and they dinged me a bit on the cost of the policy for that.

 

[Fuel]

Fifteen years ago we made a bet with a friend from a serious discussion about it. We were both smoking ~1oz a week. And we both lost the bet.

On blood test with specific THC traces : everything was gone for me after twos weeks, my friend was positive after more than a month. It was a never-ending nightmare for him ^^ No specific diet, both practicing sport twice a week, barely the same height/weight.

Our conclusion : never trust anyone else on this question, just know yourself (metabolism).

 

[Brother Nature]

I don't know about other states, but I got through my whole 2 years of probation by diluting my sample in California. A diluted sample won't hold up in court so is technically a negative, even though your PO knows better. For jobs fake piss has always worked for me, aside from when they send it to a lab. Best policy is honesty, a good employer will get it these days. And if you really want the position, just don't smoke for a bit.

 

[moose eater]

I don't know about other states, but I got through my whole 2 years of probation by diluting my sample in California. A diluted sample won't hold up in court so is technically a negative, even though your PO knows better. For jobs fake piss has always worked for me, aside from when they send it to a lab. Best policy is honesty, a good employer will get it these days. And if you really want the position, just don't smoke for a bit.

I knew folks in DoT-sensitive positions on the coast ~30 years ago, escorting oil tankers, and some would 'borrow' urine from a non-toking family member or friend, keeping it strapped to their leg with a small ace bandage and sometimes a small battery-powered heater. Then, when asked for a sample, would retire to the stall and load the cup with the 'borrowed' sample.

At least one of those folks was using urine from a woman (his significant other), and I joked with him that he'd better hope he doesn't turn up pregnant, or that they test for estrogen.

Folks on parole or probation sometimes have to piss in front of the officer though, and that negates the effectiveness of some of those techniques.

One fellow who was valued greatly by his management, a biker with a captain's card, would be sought out by his immediate superior, and be told that so-and-so was looking for him with a specimen cup, and to make himself scarce, becoming busy 'elsewhere'. He lasted there for a long time before anyone held up the cease and desist sign after succumbing to a urine test collection, after which he went into motorcycle mechanic work, and I suspect died a good long while ago, due to other recreational vices and related diseases.

 

[Brother Nature]

Haha, yeah I have known a few fellas whove had a decent side hustle with fake piss. Getting it to the correct temp is key. I did have to do the monitored piss too and it always gave me the excuse of "Well I was nervous of pissing in front of another dude, that's why I drank so much liquid before hand." It was a well known tactic and if you were an at risk offender, you'd get called up for it, but I wasn't. Meth was much more of a problem where I came from. Some of the extensive lab tests do test for estrogen too. I'd gotten out of a department related work issue with synthetic urine and I recall the test guy telling me, with a wink, "Well this is the cleanest sample I've ever seen..." I also lost a job with that same tactic cause they sent it to a lab. You win some, you lose some.