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    Nomoreweedforme Posts: 1, Reputation: 1
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    Aug 29, 2012, 08:02 PM
    Help, hair follicle test, used hair from arm pits
    I stopped smoking in January 2012, before that I smoked two to three joints a week. July 7, after a friend died I had a couple of hits off a blunt. Yesterday, apron 49 days from when I last smoked weed, I had to take a hair follicle test for a possible job. I didn't know they were doing hair follicle tests. I had about two hours to buy some follicle cleanse from the local head shop and used it everywhere there was hair on my body. They used hair from my armpit for the test sample. Any guess if I will pass or fail this test?
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    Aug 30, 2012, 06:35 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by Nomoreweedforme View Post
    I stopped smoking in January 2012, before that I smoked two to three joints a week. July 7, after a friend died I had a couple of hits off of a blunt. Yesterday, apron 49 days from when I last smoked weed, I had to take a hair follicle test for a possible job. I didn't know they were doing hair follicle tests. I had about two hours to buy some follicle cleanse from the local head shop and used it everywhere there was hair on my body. They used hair from my armpit for the test sample. Any guess if I will pass or fail this test?
    You are right on the cusp. Infrequent use of marijuana doesn't register on hair drug tests... infrequent is most often defined as twice weekly. It's important to realize that this is an average and can vary from person to person.

    Second, the growth rate for axillary hair is slower than for head hair providing a longer detection period. While the use in July wouldn't have been high enough to register the fact that axillary hair was used means that your time of heavier use (back to Jan) may still be present. That's the problem and not the more recent use. So it's basically a question of whether that use, prior to January, was heavy and frequent enough to have deposited into hair.

    Even chronic daily users are only detected about 60% of the time due to the very low incorporation rate of THC and COOH (cannabis metabolites) into hair.

    Detox shampoos are a big question mark. In theory they should work. The principle is simple enough but the majority of user reports aren't favorable.

    You have a lot of borderline variables involved that are just too close to call.
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    Sep 7, 2012, 06:09 PM
    Did you pass?
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