One afternoon a customer called up asking about hair follicle testing.  He had just graduated from college and had been looking for employment during the past couple of months.   He had finally gotten offered a great position at a bank; the only bad thing was that he would have to take a hair follicle drug test.  He was an occasional marijuana smoker at the time, so he knew there would be at least some traces of THC in his hair.

After making sure that the hair on his head was at least 1.5 inches I recommended to him that he use a shampoo designed to rid his hair of the THC for the test.  He purchased the product and he was all set to take his test.

A few days later the same guy called us back freaking out.  Apparently he had gone and gotten his hair cut a few days before the test, so when he went in for his test, the collector told him the hair on his head was not long enough.  Normally when this is the case they would take a sample from your leg, armpit, chest or another part of your body.  If a person doesn’t have an adequate amount of hair for testing, they sometimes may be allowed an extension for a few weeks so that they can grow the required amount of hair. In this particular case the customer was unable to get any kind of extension and he had to give his sample right then and there. It would have been bad enough just to have his sample taken from his chest or leg because he only used the detox shampoo on his head. His body hair would still be dirty.  To make a bad situation worse, the guy was a swimmer and therefore shaved all of his body hair.  He walked into the room and did not know what was about to happen. He kept asking where they were going to take the hair from and if the hair on his head was long enough. He repeatedly told them he has no hair. They laughed and made him take off his pants. They took the sample from his pubic area!  He was in shock!!! Imagine standing there with your pants off and someone snipping your pubic hair!! Wow!! Well he failed his test and could not get the job, but now he knows to keep his hair long.