Marijuana Drug Testing To Be Done on Iditarod Mushers

An interesting musher news item today - for Iditarod mushers, 2010's race is going to be a little different than the last. According to Matias Saari at the Fairbanks Daily News Miner drug and alcohol testing rules will be truly enforced for the first time during the 2010 race. You can check out the marijuana drug testing article in full by clicking the link.

The dogs have been tested for a long time, according to the writer. Now it is the humans' turn. The article raises a few questions - what to do with medical marijuana users, like returning champion and cancer survivor Lance Mackey? Some mushers say they've never seen hard drugs during the race, although marijuana use is seen from time to time. Certainly the Iditarod is not typically what you have in mind when you think of recreational drug settings! But it turns out that even in the cold of Alaska, you may need a home drug test.

And if you were a frequent smoker before the race began (perhaps like Lance Mackey), any use during the race would likely be detected by a urine based marijuana drug test. Because for frequent smokers, marijuana can be detected in urine for up to 15, even 30 days. Last time Mackey won, he finished in just under 10 days.

Especially when medical marijuana is involved, these things become complicated. Drug testing certainly seems like a good idea though when you are racing through fearsome conditions in the wilderness.

Hopefully everyone will enjoy themselves safely in one of America's most interesting races!

Urine Marijuana Drug Tests Are Being Used on Stronger Pot Than Ever...Probably

Today we tackle the question - is marijuana stronger than ever or is that a myth? People disagree and I will try to present to the marijuana drug test buyer both sides of the story.

The University of Mississippi's Potency Monitoring Project put out a report this May suggesting the average amount of THC in marijuana is twice as much as it was 2 1/2 decades ago. Now it is 10.1% - in 1983, the amount of THC in pot was just under 4%, according to the report. If you want to buy a marijuana drug test, what does this mean for you?

Maybe not exactly what you think. A blogger at the Marijuana Policy Project, Bruce Mirken, has a few criticisms of the report. He points out that the 10.1% figure came about because hashish, hash oil, and cannabis were lumped together (did you know that hashish was so potent? THC makes up an average of 20.76% of its content). Mirken suggests that the potency of marijuana may be inching up, but not as much as the report says.

Does this mean we should no longer marijuana urine drug test? Well no. You can look at the charts at the Office of National Drug Control Policy marijuana drug potency page and see that potent marijuana is more common, if nothing else. Plus, marijuana use remains illegal in the United States for the most part.

THC content aside, the home drug test, urine or saliva, is so accurate now that it picks up marijuana use in all degrees of potency. You cannot escape detection by smoking weaker weed. A urine marijuana drug test for example meets federal guidelines for drug testing and measures amounts as small as 50 nanograms per mililiter.

There are many reasons why someone might buy a marijuana drug test. While the jury may still be out on the increase in potency of marijuana today, rest assured that the potency of the home drug test for pot is not in question. You can purchase one at Home Health Testing today for only $2.25.