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Here, from erowid:

2.5 Hair testing: When THC metabolites are in the blood, they go through the blood vessels in the head, and get filtered through the hair. THC metabolites remain in the hair as a permanent record. The hair test costs several hundred dollars ($150-$300) and is rarely given because urinalysis is cheaper (approximately $65) and more accurate. (The hair test equipment and setup goes for over a million). According to Jeff Nightbyrd, hair tests are "widely used in the casino industry." They cut 50 strands of hair from the scalp, and send it in to the testing lab where they liquefy it. "A hair sample is disolved in a series of solvents which extract the drug metabolites and then are analyzed via GC/MS." It can take several hours to days just to extract metabolites. Average hair grows 1/4 inch per month. Typically they just use hair one and a half inches from the scalp; though some labs will take enough to test for up to 3 years. The liquid is run through the most sensitive GC/MS machines available, and can detect as little as 1 ng/mL! The hair test discriminates in that detection is easier in dark hair. Colored people may be discriminated against further because melanin is in their hair, which can be mistaken for THC. However, there is conflicting data as to whether melanin can be detected as THC. Psychemedics Corporation has a PDT90 kit for $75. This home test kit is for parents that want to chop off a lock of their child's hair to find out what drugs s/he is using. Kids- lock your bedroom doors at night if your parents don't trust your judgment on the drug issue.

 

Beating the hair test is extremely hard, and there are false positives. Bleaching or dying your hair is rumored to work, but it doesn't. I imagine you can shave every hair on your body and claim that you're a swimmer. According to NORML, Aloe Rid by Nexus is a shampoo that will aid in testing negative. Aloe Rid is available only in salons. Healthy Hair, from Sampson Health Products, is another shampoo designed to beat the hair test. Healthy Hair is sold in retail stores throughout Las Vegas. Keith Thrash from Sampson Health Products reccommends precleansing with Aloe Rid prior to using Healthy Hair. Healthy Hair is used in the morning and before going to bed. Each session takes 20 minutes. According to Steve at Sampson Health Products, two out of a thousand people failed the hair test when using Healthy Hair. Byrd Labs is currently developing a shampoo to defeat the hair test. Some have suggested treating hair with oil because THC is oil based and oil soluble. However, there is no proven way to beat the hair test, so it's all heresay and guessing at this point. (If anyone has any success with the shampoos or the swimmer excuse, please let me know). Swimming and washing your hair removes toxins, and Keith Thrash recommends doing both as much as possible. Fortunately, the hair test cannot be used alone as evidence because there are no forensic standards. It can only be used when substantiated by other evidence. Also, there are no intoxication standards. I believe if you tested positive for the hair test that you would probably have a good chance of fighting it. (BlockBuster Video uses the most up-to-date equipment, and passing such a test can be difficult). It takes several months of precleansing to beat the tests given by Psychemedics.

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Hair tests are for sure the hardest to beat. My advice is shave your head. Then they'll get a sample of hair from elsewhere on your body, I think either arm pits or pubes. Go over to marijuana.com/ and go to the forums and go to the drug test forum there, the hair testing one. You should be able to find more info there. There's something called the Macujo method or something like that, it will turn your hair to straw but apparently it can work. You also need to chill on the weed from now till then.

 

That said, the odds are against you. If I were you I'd opt out of the job and find an employer that does urine tests or better yet, no testing at all...

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Originally posted by the_gooch

they have these special shampoo's that can mask it for you. browse for them on google

 

those shampoos are a scam, that shit is just there to cash in on the illegal drug "industry". seriously, you know those 200 percent money back guarentees they have? they don't even stand by that shit, if you have a problem with a test on their product and complain, they'll just tell you weed is illegal and they're not responsible...

 

Originally posted by dr.testical

my mom was telling me about at her work they can find out everything youve done your hole life. she told me alot about what a few of my friends did. its all confidential. cool this had nothing to do with whatever

 

that's not true.

 

it's more like 3 months is the detection time.

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a drug test? to work in 7-11? Are you serious?

 

Is this common in the US? Is it just certain states that have lost the plot completely?

 

If I got ask to sumbit to a drug test to work in any job, I would tell them in NO uncertain terms to fuck off, and that I'd go find a job that didn't screw with my right to privacy.

 

regardless of whether or not I was doing drugs.

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Yeah, I know people who used SEVERAL of the 'masking' shampoos before a folicle test and failed. Don't buy that garbage.

 

If they're actually going to do a hair test you're fucked. As far as urine goes, get someone who's clean to piss in a condom for you, knot it up, and pin that shit to the inside of your boxers.

 

Water, exercise and time is really all you can do for a drug test... but don't exercise for a couple days before the test; that brings more impurities to the surface.

 

Of course, doing drugs is illegal so I don't do that.

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Originally posted by iloveboxcars

urine has to be a certain temperature otherwise you will have to do it all over again.

 

 

maybe if you put the condom up your ass or something.

 

Yeah, that or you throw it on the air ducts in your car and hit defrost on the way out.

 

That or fresh piss promptly pinned into your lap.

 

Trust me, I did this shit for about a year... even in the dead of winter having to sit in a lobby for 20 minutes at a time I was fine.

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