I am in the job market and was wondering what your strategies are?
Honestly this has always been a serious source of stress for me. Pot is a true medicine to me that really helps with my particular issues. As both a chunky person and daily smoker its very hard for me to abstain for the ~two months needed. Even then its not gurenteed out of your system right?
So I always went with synthetic and its always a stressful day going in and hoping for the best somehow worrying I’ll get caught and jailed. I hate it hate it hate it.
Now a days I hear that because medical is so normalized lots of companies either don’t care or have policies for it. I hear stories on the internet of how people just straight admit in the interview and ask if its okay. Do any of you actually go for this strategy?
Detox never seemed right to me. Combination of snake oil marketing and flushing out your system really fast seems sketchy.
The way drug test are implemented has never seemed fair or put in place for a good reason beyond company insurance policy requiring it. Coke heads, alcoholics, pill poppers, shrooms munchers, cigarette smokers, none of them get shafted like us pot smokers do on the piss test. Its kind of unjust if it targets one demographic way harder than others.
If a prospective employer wants me to piss in a cup then that’s a pretty big red flag that I’m not going to be a good fit for that culture. Trust works both ways. Also, it’s just plain weird.
A lot of this depends upon the industry and position. An employer can find that they are paying higher insurance premiums if they can’t prove that they put due diligence into ensuring that their workforce isn’t getting high before that forklift accident.
It’s not about trust, it’s about what’s cheaper.
It is about trust. You’re saying that employers are making decisions where they’re trusting their employees less in return for money.
If it was about the wellbeing of the company they would be testing C suite execs as they have the power to ruin a company yet they don’t get tested at all in my experience.
I don’t live in a fucking dystopia where getting a mall clerk job requires you to pass a pot test. Jesus guys, how are you not revolting?
Working for a school district, there’s a reason we don’t drug test. Can’t do that if you want teachers. Lol. If I were to apply for a new job, I’d say it’s medical. I have a Med card in my state.
If you’re serious about it, stop smoking when you start looking for a job. When/if you land the job feel it out for a few months and if you feel comfortable then start again. Taking a break every now and then is good for you, and if it’s to better yourself for a job then all the better.
Quick fix from your closest head shop, follow the instructions. Has worked for me for the last 20 years, even specific gravity tests
If the job is under the mistaken notion that an employee’s off-time weed use has something to do with their employment, they can correct their mistake or hire a bitch.
I always used fake urine. I copped to being medical once at an interview and the lady told me I was wasting her time lmfao
I got so tired of bullshit that I ultimately started my own business, I’m never going to drop myself.
Live hack: living in a country where employers dont do that shit
I look for jobs that don’t give a shit or don’t ask.
That pretty much leaves “unskilled” jobs like retail or foodservice.
Look for your job in a state that isn’t horseshit. 99% of employers don’t care if you’re looking for work in one of those states.
I used a kit from TestClear to successfully pass a drug screening for my current job last year. It was simple to use, and it came with everything I needed to covertly use it. It’s not synthetic urine, but dried actual urine.
If you have any questions about the process, please let me know. I’d be happy to help.
If you have toddlers who are willing to pee for you…
Detox kit. Always worked for me
Would you be comfortable giving some more information on the exact detox procedure and the kit used? Do you have to take niacin to make your pee yellow?
Medical lab scientist here. There’s no such thing as a “detox kit”. All you’re doing is drinking enough water to dilute the sample. The detox kit may have vitamins or creatine to help beat tests commonly used to detect dilution, but there’s no “detoxing” occurring. It’s just dilution.
You can drink a lot of water, pop a B vitamin, maybe some creatine, and you’d be just as well off as a detox kit. Frankly unless it’s a high security type position I doubt they’re paying for extra testing for dilution. I recently did one at Quest diagnostics and all they cared about was the temperature.
Hey @deranger@sh.itjust.works thank you very much for the great reply. This is valuable information that took more than a moment of your time to write and I’m grateful.
Typically I’d recommend one of these two.
Lower risk of getting busted for adulteration: drink lots of water. I like to do a half gallon to gallon of water the day of the test. If you hydrate sooner (eg days before) you won’t need to drink as much the day of the test. Clear urine is good urine anyways, kidney stones are a bitch. If they actually care about dilution they’ll ask you to resubmit. Submitting dilute urine is not a failure, it’s just not a pass. Probably not even tested for unless you’re trying for a top secret job or something like that.
Lower risk of getting busted for dilution: use synthetic urine. Risk here is getting caught with the fake piss or being out of temperature range. Chemically speaking though this is the least risk. Synthetic pee is what they use to calibrate the analyzers and “dipstick”/drop of urine on a card style drug tests. It’s perfect in terms of fooling the analytical lab portion. I used this recently to pass a test and it worked great, but I was paranoid about the temperature (it was perfectly in range, though).
Detox kits are necessarily bullshit but it’s just a more expensive form of dilution and supplementation to beat dilution tests.
It’s been 4 years since I’ve needed one but if you go on one of the bigger marijuana websites like Leafly or just Google reviews I’m sure you’ll find some good recommendations. I never took niacin and passed no problems for 3 fortune 100s or the private company equivalents. If you’re properly hydrated your pee will be clear anyways
Do employers still drug test for weed in 2025. They might ask you to piss but they are screening for hard drugs.
