Been 50days still can't pass a drug test for thc

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James331 said:
It's not less harmful?

I've dealt with plenty of folks who have boozed themselves into the ICU, and a short life.

I've never had a person who smoked them self into a ICU and significantly shortened their life with weed.
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A person of average or better reading comprehension would have noted that I was talking about the fact that it's not LEGAL. As for being less harmful, I guess that's open for debate. Is being shot less harmful than being knifed? I guess it depends on where ad how badly you get it.
 
Acrodustertoo said:
Yup. If it looks like a duck.....

Or are you seeing a big influx of people purposely dressing like a drug user because it makes them look cool?
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Some, I've met people who dress like hippies but are straight edge. More importantly, I've seen many, many people who dress nothing like that and are habitual users and successful students/workers. Those people aren't on your radar. Hence, selection bias.
 
172andyou said:
Some, I've met people who dress like hippies but are straight edge. More importantly, I've seen many, many people who dress nothing like that and are habitual users and successful students/workers. Those people aren't on your radar. Hence, selection bias.
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Nothing says "I am successful" better than looking like this then right?
Crack_Addict_Makeup_by_Fillabula.jpg
 
DaleB said:
A person of average or better reading comprehension would have noted that I was talking about the fact that it's not LEGAL. As for being less harmful, I guess that's open for debate. Is being shot less harmful than being knifed? I guess it depends on where ad how badly you get it.
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Actually you worded it poorly, the post you responded to first mentioned it's harm.

But to compare smoking weed to being stabbed or shot, well that's a lack of comprehension all to itself.

And weed vs booze, no debate, go to any ICU and ask how many people circling the drain drank themselves there, then ask how many got their due to their consumption of weed.
 
What type of test are you taking,urine ,hair ,blood? If it's only a urine test,unless your still using you should be clear in a few days.
 
Palmpilot said:
Why tell someone to stop who has already stopped?
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Mainly cuz its fun to bust the chops of some pothead who comes in here whining about trying to get a medical (or whatever he is trying to do) when he's been smoking dope. 50 days! Whoopie. Ive somehow managed to go over 19000 days without smoking pot. I feel a relapse coming on...
 
Sac Arrow said:
Unless it short circuits your brain. When I was a kid, there was a college divinity student that lived next to us who got slipped some acid at a party without knowing it. It screwed him up so bad he couldn't live on his own or even walk or talk normally anymore. Permanently.
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He was the inspiration for the "Rev. Jim" character in "Taxi."

Rich
 
172andyou said:
Yeah, I have no confidence in the FAA to keep up with this one. So, legal or not, it's going to be off limits to aviators for a long time.
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As I think it should be -- and I speak as one who strongly favors legalization. I think attempting to regulate the distribution, possession, and use of a plant that anyone with a flowerpot and a grow light can cultivate at home is just a colossal waste of time, money, and law-enforcement resources. But like many other lifestyle choices, smoking weed is incompatible with certain activities, and flying is one of them.

Rich
 
RJM62 said:
But like many other lifestyle choices, smoking weed is incompatible with certain activities, and flying is one of them.
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I see nothing to suggest that weed is worse than alcohol for aviating. In fact, I would much rather fly with someone who got messed up on weed 8+ hours ago than someone hung over from a bender on alcohol 8+ hours ago. Neither should be partaken of while flying, of course.
 
jbrinker said:
I totally agree with you - the question is how does the FAA feel about that? Going to be an interesting few years.
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I wouldn't expect state legalization to have any effect on the FAA's position unless and until the federal law prohibiting it is repealed.
 
Acrodustertoo said:
Yup. If it looks like a duck.....

Or are you seeing a big influx of people purposely dressing like a drug user because it makes them look cool?
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Are you assuming that people who dress like that are the only ones using pot?
 
RJM62 said:
As I think it should be -- and I speak as one who strongly favors legalization. I think attempting to regulate the distribution, possession, and use of a plant that anyone with a flowerpot and a grow light can cultivate at home is just a colossal waste of time, money, and law-enforcement resources. But like many other lifestyle choices, smoking weed is incompatible with certain activities, and flying is one of them.

Rich
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I agree with that. One thing that weed has, that alcohol does not, is a long lasting residual.
 
Sac Arrow said:
I agree with that. One thing that weed has, that alcohol does not, is a long lasting residual.
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It's not just the metabolites (the stuff the drug test measures) that lingers, it's the THC (the psychoactive stuff), though the relationship between the stored THC and withdrawal and other symptoms hasn't really been strongly correlated.
 
frfly172 said:
What type of test are you taking,urine ,hair ,blood? If it's only a urine test,unless your still using you should be clear in a few days.
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Is this a home test kit that is being used for self-screening before going in for an employment screening?
 
Sac Arrow said:
I agree with that. One thing that weed has, that alcohol does not, is a long lasting residual.
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Got a citation for that? Ideally one that correlates residual to diminished function? Cause I can tell you that most people I know that have tried both have the opposite opinion, but I don't have any real data to back that up.
 
172andyou said:
Got a citation for that? Ideally one that correlates residual to diminished function? Cause I can tell you that most people I know that have tried both have the opposite opinion, but I don't have any real data to back that up.
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Yes, the fact that THC is resident in the fat cells for up to months is well documented. As to what extent that translates to diminished function I don't know, but I suspect in any case it's probably significantly longer than eight hours.
 
Acrodustertoo said:
There is a reason that smoking reefer is not good for you.
I have a couple potheads every year in my classes. They think they have a firm grasp on things but in reality they learn at a snails pace com pared to the sober ones. They live in a fog all day so they don't even realize how slow they really are. It is really quite interesting for me to watch. They think they go unnoticed but I can pick them out pretty quick.
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Oh, wait for the pothead faction here on POA to tell you that you have it all wrong and regale you with stories of high functioning potheads.
 
frfly172 said:
What type of test are you taking,urine ,hair ,blood? If it's only a urine test,unless your still using you should be clear in a few days.
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Urine test I've been clean since End of September. I've been using at home drug tests failed 3 now :(
 
Unknown said:
Urine test I've been clean since End of September. I've been using at home drug tests failed 3 now :(
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Stay clean for a couple more months. You'll wash it out eventually. Lose some weight while you are at it.
 
You guys fall for the trolls. Day in amd day out. Thats why they keep coming back
 
Unknown said:
Like I said it has been 50days , do you have something constructive to say?
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I've heard that THC is fat soluble. I have not independently verified this. If you were fatter when you smoked, some of it stores there.. Then when you lose weight/burn fat, you release some of that THC into the blood stream, where it is detectable again, and shows up in hair again for the expected intervals.

Consider the level of evidence on this "heard it from someone, could be a rumor".
 
EminiTrader said:
You guys fall for the trolls. Day in amd day out. Thats why they keep coming back
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I don't know whether he's a troll, and neither do you.

But really, even if he is a troll, I don't care. This is a discussion board, and he gave us something interesting to discuss, so where's the harm? If you don't think he's sincere, no one's forcing you to participate.
 
RJM62 said:
As I think it should be -- and I speak as one who strongly favors legalization. I think attempting to regulate the distribution, possession, and use of a plant that anyone with a flowerpot and a grow light can cultivate at home is just a colossal waste of time, money, and law-enforcement resources. But like many other lifestyle choices, smoking weed is incompatible with certain activities, and flying is one of them.

Rich
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The govt does a thorough job of regulating alcohol, which is easily made at home from many fruits and plants grown at home or purchased at the local grocery store. Wine from grapes, vodka from taters, shine from corn, beer and whiskey from grain . . . Why would adding another plant be difficult? Look how tightly tobacco is regulated. Ask a farmer from NC if you think it's not. Ask a farmer from South Georgia about freaking peanut regulations!
 
Hasn't it been about 50 days since the poster who said they "accidentally" smoked weed and we're grounded from a 135 job, after attending a wedding in Colorado? Or something like that? LOL

That said, it's Friday night, and there's all sorts of drunk ex-PoAers with nothing to do but post something like that... or both times... haha.

My parents were flower children...

I found the best possible way to not be interested in certain substances is to watch adults use them and see what morons they turn into. The family alcoholics, the family pot-heads, the family whatever's... they've all served as excellent examples of what I don't have time for nor want.

Some of the older pot-heads did seem to have a pretty good time in the 70s, but they had a lot more energy back then... and better concerts and bands to go see, cheap.

I'll stick to my caffeine, nicotine, and taurine habits... ha. And I should really dump the nicotine.
 
Hank S said:
The govt does a thorough job of regulating alcohol, which is easily made at home from many fruits and plants grown at home or purchased at the local grocery store. Wine from grapes, vodka from taters, shine from corn, beer and whiskey from grain . . . Why would adding another plant be difficult? Look how tightly tobacco is regulated. Ask a farmer from NC if you think it's not. Ask a farmer from South Georgia about freaking peanut regulations!
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Well, they make a thorough attempt to regulate alcohol; but I'm not sure how effective it is judging by the number of backyard stills that dot the woods in these parts. I also know of at least half a dozen commercial marijuana growers within a 25-mile radius. Considering that I know about these guys despite neither using nor seeking out the stuff, I have to suspect that there are many, many more.

Rich
 
JCranford said:
Mainly cuz its fun to bust the chops of some pothead who comes in here whining about trying to get a medical (or whatever he is trying to do) when he's been smoking dope. 50 days! Whoopie. Ive somehow managed to go over 19000 days without smoking pot. I feel a relapse coming on...
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It's also fun to get all the puritanical nut jobs all riled up :)
 
denverpilot said:
Some of the older pot-heads did seem to have a pretty good time in the 70s, but they had a lot more energy back then... and better concerts and bands to go see, cheap.
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I had a ball in the late 60s early 70s, even without pot. As I was a controller in the Air Force and we were tested all the time unannounced. Sooo that took care of the pot, although we had some that got busted and then were kicked out of the USAF. Probably got hired as controllers for the FAA lol. But yeah, the bands were amazing and actually played their instruments, and sang. No ****ing computers or lip syncing going on. Local bands trying to make it big were just as good as the ones that did make it. When I was in Germany the bands that toured the military bases were from England and unbelievably good. And the partying, girls, and and...I'll leave it there. :eek:
 
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If or when pot gets legalized at the federal level, then the FAA will have some decisions to make.
 
172andyou said:
Pot is way less harmful than alcohol.
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Since when has inhaling a burning substance ever been good for your body ?
Smoking ANYTHING is the number one cause of strokes. The "fun" thing about strokes is they rarely kill you outright. You get to go on living in a greatly DIMINISHED capacity. Which as you can imagine is enormous fun for the people trying to take care of you.
 
Art VanDelay said:
Since when has inhaling a burning substance ever been good for your body ?
Smoking ANYTHING is the number one cause of strokes. The "fun" thing about strokes is they rarely kill you outright. You get to go on living in a greatly DIMINISHED capacity. Which as you can imagine is enormous fun for the people trying to take care of you.
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Site ONE case where the CAUSE of a stroke was from smoking weed.
 
James331 said:
Site ONE case where the CAUSE of a stroke was from smoking weed.
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My own DEAD father comes to mind first.
Smoking is smoking ! If you think one is more "organic" or purer than what Phillip Morris puts out you're truly stupid.
 
Art VanDelay said:
My own DEAD father comes to mind first.
Smoking is smoking ! If you think one is more "organic" or purer than what Phillip Morris puts out you're truly stupid.
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Sorry about your dad.

Your father died from just smoking weed?

There is a HUUUUGE difference between weed and a pack of cigs, BOTH in level of consumption and in what it does to your body.

I would be very interested in hearing about someone who put themself in the grave solely by smoking pot.
 
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