There are cases where people who are in pain management programs where the physician has prescribed five hundred oxycodone or hydrocodone tablets per month but if there is any marijuana detected in the urine test the patient can be kicked out of the program.  This does not seem fair to the patient who attains some degree of pain relief or can increase their appetite from the marijuana use.

Some physicians are sympathetic to the patients’ use of marijuana to relieve pain but the insurance companies may not be so sympathetic.  In these cases the physician’s hands are tied.

There are no detox products that can only remove the THC metabolites temporarily but leave the prescribed medication in the blood or urine to be detected as they should be.  Most of the time the patients are subject to drug tests not to detect the presence of THC but to make sure the patients are taking their medications and not selling them or to make sure that the patients are taking them in the prescribed doses and not abusing them.

Another instance of drug testing gone wild is the case where some idiot at work has an on the job accident and they automatically want to drug test everyone in the company so as not to appear that they are singling out the guy who screwed up in the first place.  This can result in someone who has worked for many years and has an impeccable work record losing their job because of someone else’s negligence.  The good employee may only smoke marijuana off the premises and only on the weekends and still show traces of THC in the urine test.  Is this fair? Perhaps not, but life isn’t fair either.