If I was in the same house as people smoking weed, can I test positive on a drug test? Has this ever happened?

Question

I was next to these people smoking a joint, and I have to have drug tests for school...is it possible to test positive? My roommate was upstairs, can she test positive if she breathed in the smoke thru the ventilation system? We CANNOT get positive tests, or we will be kicked out of school. What should we do to be sure we don't test positive? Ahhh...HELP!

Answer 1

It happened so often in the early days of drug testing that the tests used now are purposely less sensitive to make it most unlikely.

Answer 2

Don't worry about it.  Drug tests check for certain levels of marijuana.  If it was inhaled 2nd hand, it won't "show up" in a drug test.  The old saying that it takes 30 days for it to get out of your system is for serious everyday smokers.  Even if you smoke a whole bowl yourself, it will be out of your system in 3 days tops if you are a CASUAL toker.  (Every few months).  Chill!!  Don't you know there's cocaine trace on most 100 bills???? Worry about that!

Answer 3

you sure can,you dont have to be the one smoking the hippie lettuce,havent you heard of second hand smoke??All you have to do is inhale smoke,or handle the pipe/bong and the residue permeates your skin.

Answer 4

Passive inhalation of marijuana. In general, routine passive exposure to marijuana smoke will not result in a positive result for carboxy-THC.

Only under unrealistic conditions, a person may test positive for carboxy-THC, but concentrations are generally below the routine cut off levels.

Answer 5

Sweetie,

unless you were sitting on his lap intentionally inhaling the smoke from his joint(on a daily basis)...Maybe...

But given your question i don't think thats the case...

They test for higher levels than second hand smoke... I've been in your shoes and asked the same question..... Personally...i'd say your in the clear. I have to take a drug test every month at my job... Also, i should mention my roomates are habitual stoners.. morning, noon, and night...

and i share a room with one of them,

and occasionally smoke myself...

And, I have never failed a test.

Also, my routine has been successful for the past 3 years..

Soo, chill out sauerkraut..

You definately in the clear.. and just to soothe your nerves... drink a c**p load of water and pee it out right before the test (permiting it's a urine test) and you'll be clean as a whistle...