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by budfreak on January 1st, 2005

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Is there a way to flush THC out of your system quickly?

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  • by Bibliophile_kg on January 5th, 2005

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    You can flush almost anything from your system by drinking a lot and the use of diuretics. I use cranberry juice and stone root tea to help fight colds (you can buy it loose and make your own tea, if you buy a prepackaged tea, look on the ingredients). Stone root tastes a lot like dirt, but it is usually masked by the other herbs I use to fight colds; echinacea, mint, and chamomile. Golden Seal is effective but expensive because it is endangered. I find teas work better than synthetic diuretics or pill forms for cleansing my system. However, I suspect what you are really asking is how to get THC out of your system for a drug test.

    Flushing out your system may allow your urine sample to slip by the more general, inexpensive and less accurate tests. However, be aware that these test labs will also look at other aspects of urine to try to screen out testees trying to "beat the system." They look at color, because clear or weak coloration indicates that the testee has been drinking a lot. I have never been tested; but I suspect that this means that those of us that drink the 8oz 8x per day and look for our urine to be colored lightly would be suspect! In addition, temperature is noted to spot those that may have collected a sample from someone else earlier. The final aspect that is noted is the presence of creatine (a soluble protein which will wash out of your system in the normal human body processes). Some substitutes will lack this substance.

    As for the many products touted on the web "guaranteed to pass drug tests"; buyer beware! They really will not be anymore effective than what you can do with natural remedies. In addition, some are less effective, and simply making money off of the unsuspecting.
    This may slip by the more general, inexpensive and less accurate tests.

    There are newer, far more accurate tests that will not be impacted by flushing your system. These tests are more expensive and so are often used to further test any positive results to screen out false positives. There are fat-soluble THC byproducts that are stored in your muscle cells. These cannot be simply flushed out of your system. The only things that impact the storage of these byproducts are excercise and time.

    Labs that are federally certified will utilize what is known as a gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) before a positive result can be reported. The gas chromatograph extracts a drug from most other components of a urine specimen. The mass spectrometry then performs the final separation, identification, and quantification of the specific drug or drug metabolite present in the urine specimen.

    Another test used that is not affected by flushing out your system is the hair test. However, these also generate a number of false positives, since your hair can absorb THC via second hand exposure. In addition, hair stores TCH indefinitely, thus even in the case of a testee who has ceased using marijuana, their hair may still contain traces of THC.

    Of course the best method to pass a drug test is abstention. The longer your abstention period is, the better.

    This information has been gleaned from
    http://www.erowid.org which describes themselves as "a member-supported organization providing access to reliable, non-judgmental information about psychoactive plants and chemicals and related issues. We work with academic, medical, and experiential experts to develop and publish new resources, as well as to improve and increase access to already existing resources. We also strive to ensure that these resources are maintained and preserved as a historical record for the future."

    http://www.samhsa.gov/index.aspx The US Dept. of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration

    and

    http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/journal/
    International Journal of Drug Testing, published by Florida State University.

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    • Great, comprehensive answer. Indeed, erowid.com is an excellent source for this sort of information.

      Aristocles

      by Aristocles on March 31st, 2007

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