CBD can ruin your trucking options

Discussion in 'Trucking Schools and CDL Training Forum' started by tscottme, Feb 13, 2024.

  1. JolliRoger

    JolliRoger Road Train Member

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    Very similar to the old dry liquor days here. Varied by county and who was the elected sheriff for that term.
     
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  3. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    I think even trusting the process and sources you mention is taking too much risk. We are talking about losing your income for considerable periods of time while one tries to get this cleared up. Which is more likely, even if both are unlikely, the CBD sources you trust makes 1 mistake or they never make a mistake? If a driver is using zero CBD from ANY source the chances of consuming CBD with THC is as close to zero as one can get. The chances of any source making a mistake is higher than THC fairies visiting you and put it in your blood while you sleep without your knowledge. A QR code is a marketing ploy to give a potential customer confidence in the sales pitch. Nobody selling CBD is going to replace a driver's income if a driver fails a drug test due to CBD. Even if the supplier claims to offer such a thing, until they provide income replacement you have no idea if the "promise" is real or another false story.

    CBD is a fad and also a market for the weed growers, they are dying to get SOMETHING sold to the crowd that wants "nothing to do with weed". Desperate people will take risks. The user convincing himself this CBD product is safe and will have no impact if it causes a positive on a drug test is not reducing the penalty the FMCSA imposes for failing the test. Find other pain-relief products that can't produce a positive drug screen result. NOBODY is inviting long stories about how unfair the drug testing programs are in relation to weed products. Until all of us read the FMCSA has authorized THC use, it doesn't matter what anyone's experience with weed or how any state treats weed. FMCSA has a rule, CDL drivers are subject to those rules, failing a test stops you from CDL driving. Don't volunteer to lose your income. Ignoring all of this and volunteering to fail a drug test and then crying about it just confirms why it was called "dope" in the first place. Don't be a dope.
     
  4. LH98

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    I really don’t understand how people can risk there whole CDL over pot? I used to smoke like a chimney, it’s what put me off getting my CDL for so long (takes 6 months to get out of your hair if your heavy smoker) probably the biggest mistake of my life was not quitting it earlier and getting my CDL sooner (I love this, i really do think I’ve found what I want to do for the rest of my life) and I swear, literally 2 weeks after I stopped, my life just started improving, I was less tired, I was eating better, more motivated, it was great. Craziest thing to me tho, is when I signed up with Swift and went to there school, everyone else had to pass the same hair follicle test I did, they all abstained from weed for at least a few months, and out of the 8 people in the class, after the drug test there was me and one other guy. Like, how are you going to get over the worst of craving it, see all the benefits and just, immediately ####ing smoke again? And I know CBD isn’t weed, but still, why risk it? Just take melatonin. stopping smoking also totally changed my opinion on it, it’s exceptionally detrimental, I wouldn’t say dangerous in the sense it’s going to kill you outright, but I feel for people that smoke like they breathe, it destroys your ability to be productive.
     
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  5. dieselpowered

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    Anything from medical smoke shop or anything MJ plant or any location you have a high percentage that any product there laced with something that will test positive no one goes there regular Snickers bar anyone who is naive enough go there gets what they get. That said you can still test positive unknown to people Haribo the gummie bear soft candies the regular and coke cola candies were recalled because they have small amounts cannabis contamination kids found sick and after taking these realized it was the gummy bears the problem is some adults eat these can you imagine eating those taking a drug test and failing because you didn't know the candy was laced with drugs.


    To be honest, some people take CBD oil for pain I myself haven't taken it but my constant pain every single day I could understand why someone would take it if it were to relieve the pain just enough so won't be at a constant 10 hurting to be mobile. Me, and Biofreeze and are best buds I cannot go a single day without it and doctors don't like giving steroids for pain nowadays like they used to and so I have to I have to find alternatives since the doctor I have seen says that surgery wouldn't help fix the issue and so people like me find solutions and still want to work for now its biofreeze for me and tylenol. But if I was in any other job field I would be on CBD oil in a heartbeat if it meant less pain and I am too young even to consider SS 37 and unless you're seriously bad like unable walk or no hands or something, no one should be on it aside from seniors.
     
  6. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    Whatever the reason for using CBD, there are alternatives that will never cause a false positive on a drug test. Use those alternatives. If you volunteer for a false drug test nobody wants to hear the sob story about living with the test results.
    YOU VOLUNTEERED for the problem.
    You now have the problem.
    Deal with the problem.
     
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