First, I want to state: I don't use illicit drugs (only medications for pain and OTC medications my physicians have on-file as having suggested I take)...

My question is: What if a patient is not using illegal drugs, such as marijuana, but someone else does and has no respect for others whom have said things such as: "Don't do it around me"? But, the person is so self-centered that the person tokes away anyway, all-the-while knowing others are being tested for the presence of THC. Don't the folices retain residue for over 6 months?

I went to my doc and, before labs were ordered, I had to explain to her that someone did just that... lit up and toked away though the person was told not to do it; since she knows me, she understood. Like it mattered that anyone told the person of the possible chaos it could create for others. And, I was not the only person whom told the one lighting up, "Don't do it." (I'm not passing judgement, only saying, for those of us who are randomly tested - within the terms of our care to make sure it's not discriminatory toward folks whom have had substance issues - and who do not make use of marijuana, it comprises our care. That is something that was made patently clear to the person as well.)

Some, I gotta say, only care about oneself. To heck with what may result for others .

The crap stinks, and... it also interferes with some prescribed meds. But try to tell that to a pot-head. After all, their responses often differ; it's for their "health" after all. I wonder how they'd feel if they lost their care providers, which is a risk to people around them when they decide to strike up and to heck with everyone else.

Anyway, possibly, the person asking the Q. isn't "using," but may have been exposed... despite efforts to avoid it. Sometimes? Others just don't care about anyone but themselves.