Secondhand Pot Smoke Can Make You Fail a Drug Test

[slimvictor]

People who are exposed to secondhand marijuana smoke may feel a bit of the "high" that comes with using the drug, a new study finds. They may also feel unable to think clearly, and they may even have detectable levels of the drug in their urine or blood. But all of this happens only if they are exposed to marijuana smoke under severely unventilated conditions, the study found.

"If you're going to breathe in enough passive cannabis smoke to feel high and potentially be slightly impaired, you could fail a drug test," said Evan S. Herrmann, the study's lead author and postdoctoral fellow in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. "But this only happens under a very extreme situation."

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[szuko000]

There is a big difference between "failing a drug test" and "testing positive for cannabis" There are federal cut off levels that are considered passing scores even though someone may test positive for cannabis, this was to adjust for errors and situations such as this I thought. Just because someone tests positive for cannabis does not mean they fail for THC.