Failed UA, Hopefully I can exlain it away Options

[SofaGeorge]

Many years ago I was a counselor working in a couple work release facilities. I'm not kidding when i say I probably gave 2,000+ UAs. The bottom line is that if you fail a UA... you fail by a mile. People think that a UA simply tests for a presence of a substance. That is just the half of it. They also test for "level." I can't give the actual numbers... but it used to work like this. If your test came back positive for THC (pot) they didn't just look at the positive test... they also looked at what level of THC the test caught. If you tested a 60 on THC... and the cut off was 100... you were considered a "negative" even though you had a positive test for THC. You simply didn't have enough to hit the 100 mark and be over the limit. The military had a really high level on their THC count... something rediculous like 160... which meant that you had basically just burned two joints before peeing in the cup. the way it was explained to me was that the military had to go with such a high amount because otherwise too many people would fail the test.

This is why the "oh I ate poppy seed bagels" line doesn't work. You aren't just testing positive for morphine. You are testing high enough for morphine to have confirmed amounts that could not be caused by a bagel. A poppy seed bagel may give you a positive morphine read... but if your number is 15... and cut off is 100... and you test 150... there is no way in hell you got a 150 morphine read off a bagel.

It isn't just a positive test... it is the level variance that nails you.