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    The post about weed and drug testing got me thinking...

    ...say you smoked, and some place decided to give you a hair test. If you dyed your hair, would the weed (or other drugs) still show up? Or would the (permanent) dye and chemicals strip it out? Why or why not?

    Inquiring minds want to know...because I'm just plain curious (and also because I really want to smoke, but I'm always paranoid that right after I do, some amazing random job or opportunity will come up that I'll need to take a drug test to get. I know that sounds ridiculous, but oh well.)

    Also...if they do test your hair, is the whole strand considered evidence? I used to roll a lot, but haven't done it in about a year. So there would still be E in my hair, but it would only be way far down the strand because I haven't done it in a year. Would that count against me?

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    My mom runs a drug testing service, and so she fields these questions a lot.

    Hair dye will not help you pass the test. Dye covers the shaft, but it acts sort of as a coating... the tests runs the entire strand inside and out, so it doesn't matter how many layers of dye their are...drugs will still show up.

    Bleach SOMETIMES can cover the drugs, but only if you bleach completely (like, until your hair is white and beyond). However, don't think going platinum will help you pass. Usually (unless the company you're applying at is very leniant) they will require a candidate with bleached hair to submit to under-arms samples, pubic hair, etc, or regular urine tests for a 6 month period.

    It doesn't matter if you did drugs the day before the test or a year ago. If it shows up on the sample, the company cannot hire you.

    When they perform the test, they don't look for a date...if it shows up at all, it's considered a failed sample.

    And depending on what service they use (small companies usually use less-expensive drug testing facilities, who typically use techniques that only can find drug use evidence on the strand 3-6 months prior to the test date).

    Bigger companies use top notch facilities, who can find drug use up to 18 months prior to the day the sample is taken.

    And it isn't ridiculous...it used to be only huge corporations and high-security government tests required hair tests; now, even small companies and local jobs are requiring hair tests.

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    It's in the hair follicle, coloring won't do anything

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    Damn it! *pets hair* Oh how trecherous you are, my pretty!
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    Feckin' crap.. Do you think a nursing home would require a hair test? What happened to good old fashioned urine tests?

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    ^it really depends. Some hospital and nursing homes do, some don't. There's really no way to tell which institutions demand it or not.

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    How fast does your hair grow? Get a haircut at about the twelve month length.

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    Quote Originally Posted by UtahMike View Post
    How fast does your hair grow? Get a haircut at about the twelve month length.
    That does not WORK! The hair drug test works for as far back as 3 months! And hair grows at .5 of an inch every month and they need an inch and a half. For this to work you would have had to not did anything for 4 months and then run around with short ass hair. The only thing you could do is wax your head and entire body (brazilian, pits, everything) to pass. And that is insane. (I am high as hell right now as I write this.)
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    most places don't hair test. urine tests are super easy to pass. i don't do anything but smoke (and i dont do that as much as i used to) but i've passed 4 urine tests in the past. never failed one.

    one of those was the day after i smoked alllll day long. i used vale (it's a detox drink) every time.

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    jeeez. i would have so many fucking drugs in my hair haha.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darcy Foxx View Post
    jeeez. i would have so many fucking drugs in my hair haha.
    lol, I'd only have two, as all I've ever done is roll and smoke weed. (Or maybe more than two things would show up, depending on if any of the E was cut with other stuff.) But I guess "only" two things would be enough to put me out if someone decided to drug-test me.

    Maybe I'm being paranoid. If I was going for a straight job (which I might be, soon), it'd be as a yoga instructor, b/c that's what I'm certified/qualified for...do they even do drug tests for that usually? Anyone on here who works as an athletic trainer, group fitness instructor, etc...do you have to take a drug test for that? I've only worked at one studio and they didn't test at all, but who knows what the norm is.

    I only really get the urge to roll or smoke maybe twice a year...and then I do it for a week straight, and then decide I'm sick of it until 6 months later. Being high for two weeks out of the year isn't so bad, is it?

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    It's mostly big corporations and sensitive jobs that require serious testing. Yoga instructor isn't sensitive, so I imagine it might require testing if you were working for a big-box gym but I don't know how serious the testing would be.
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    I doubt you would need a hair test to teach yoga.

    I've passed a ton of urine tests by bringing someone else's pee. Surefire way to pass. (As long as you trust the person you got the sample from)



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    ^^^^^how did you smuggle it in?
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    What about a hair stripping kit? One of my friends used it after a bad dark dye job and it turned her hair like white! Then she died it a caramel brown color. Would the stripping kit get all the way "inside" of the strands of hair?

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    ^no. Stripping takes away the outer coating, not the internal follicle.

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    Ok so... I was in thailand last year and was in a fire that burnt down the guesthouse I was staying in, in bangkok. Because the police wanted to blame it on someone, and my boyfriend and I looked goth kind of and it wasz thailand so they accused us of being junkies and said that we shot up then fell alseep and thats how the place set on fire. SO not true neither of us has ever tried heroine and the fire wasn't our fault, but we had been smoking weed a few days earlier (really illegal in thailand) Ok getting to the point, My boyfriend was arrested and they had this guy would told us that he was working undercover for the German/Thai equivalent of the FBI or something like that (just so you know if you go to thailand that fat tourist pervy looking guy or the pool boy could be an under cover cop) After they arrested my boyfriend I guess the guy felt sorry for me ( I was sleeping outside the police sation and had lost all my clothes, money,passport etc. ) so he told me that they had disscussed arrested me and if had done any drugs I should go take a really hot , long suana to clean my hair. I did this and they later called me in took my hair and I passed! they guys still told me I was at risk of being arrested and even though my boyfriend was still in Thai jail I was exported from the country on the frist plane I could get and an emergency passport from the US embassy while I still didn't have charges.
    (god loves my BF and he ended up getting out and away a week later but he cant go back to thailand)
    SO advice-- Hot, long sauna, maybe even a few just to be sure.

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    Meh, I would doubt as an aerobics instructer anyone would test hair. I taught dance at a very large studio and they don't drug test...and I was working with kids...soooo.

    I personally would not work for any employer that mandated drug testing, as I think it's a violation of my privacy. It just seems wacky... I mean, I could be a drunk, sober up enough to go to work, and not raise any red flags...If I want to recreational use drugs (which BTW I don't anymore) I don't see what that is of anybody's business...but I'm kind of a hippy like that....
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    i know a company that tests for drinking and tobacco use, in addition to the usual stuff. pretty nice salaries there, too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pheonixkarma View Post
    Ok so... I was in thailand last year and was in a fire that burnt down the guesthouse I was staying in, in bangkok. Because the police wanted to blame it on someone, and my boyfriend and I looked goth kind of and it wasz thailand so they accused us of being junkies and said that we shot up then fell alseep and thats how the place set on fire. SO not true neither of us has ever tried heroine and the fire wasn't our fault, but we had been smoking weed a few days earlier (really illegal in thailand) Ok getting to the point, My boyfriend was arrested and they had this guy would told us that he was working undercover for the German/Thai equivalent of the FBI or something like that (just so you know if you go to thailand that fat tourist pervy looking guy or the pool boy could be an under cover cop) After they arrested my boyfriend I guess the guy felt sorry for me ( I was sleeping outside the police sation and had lost all my clothes, money,passport etc. ) so he told me that they had disscussed arrested me and if had done any drugs I should go take a really hot , long suana to clean my hair. I did this and they later called me in took my hair and I passed! they guys still told me I was at risk of being arrested and even though my boyfriend was still in Thai jail I was exported from the country on the frist plane I could get and an emergency passport from the US embassy while I still didn't have charges.
    (god loves my BF and he ended up getting out and away a week later but he cant go back to thailand)
    SO advice-- Hot, long sauna, maybe even a few just to be sure.
    OMG insane story....that could happen to anyone I'm glad you and your bf are okay!! I travel a lot and have done drugs abroad but that will make me think twice next time...scary.

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