I am in the job market and was wondering what your strategies are?
Honestly this has always been a serious source of stress for me. Pot is a true medicine to me that really helps with my particular issues. As both a chunky person and daily smoker its very hard for me to abstain for the ~two months needed. Even then its not gurenteed out of your system right?
So I always went with synthetic and its always a stressful day going in and hoping for the best somehow worrying I’ll get caught and jailed. I hate it hate it hate it.
Now a days I hear that because medical is so normalized lots of companies either don’t care or have policies for it. I hear stories on the internet of how people just straight admit in the interview and ask if its okay. Do any of you actually go for this strategy?
Detox never seemed right to me. Combination of snake oil marketing and flushing out your system really fast seems sketchy.
The way drug test are implemented has never seemed fair or put in place for a good reason beyond company insurance policy requiring it. Coke heads, alcoholics, pill poppers, shrooms munchers, cigarette smokers, none of them get shafted like us pot smokers do on the piss test. Its kind of unjust if it targets one demographic way harder than others.
easy to say if you don’t live with debilitating pain i guess. going 3 months without the only thing that makes my life comfortable would be miserable. i COULD do it, but i don’t want to be forced to because of some horse shit policy
Agreed, that’s definitely an exception.
Thank you for saying this. I had similar thoughts when I read this when considering over my personal situation but was worried it was copium thinking. Glad I’m not the only one who thinks these kind of statements as un-nuanced.
Do people who think like this consider those with depression or severe ADHD or insomniacs who take their medication daily as evidence of addiction as well?
I can stop any time without symptoms of severe withdraw, but when I do stop my quality of life diminishes greatly due to the legitimate medical problems I suffer which the pot helps alleviate. Its MEDICINE with relatively few side affects compared to pharma shit.
Now when I smoked cigarettes and had severe body jitters and constant nicotine craving for weeks when I quit? Yeah, thats actual addiction.
Also just subjectively two to three months is not ‘a few weeks’. 8-12 weeks is not a short amount of time. I shouldn’t have to suffer significant fractions of a year just to jump through arbitrary hoops set by insurance companies.