Tuesday, August 17, 2010

How Long Can One Detect the Presence of Marijuana by Using Saliva Drug Test

Marijuana is an illegal drug. This drug is used for smoking, using a pipe. By using this drug, many adverse effects like respiration problems manifest. This drug is also termed as the gateway drug for all the drugs.

Now-a-days, saliva drug testing is used tremendously because of the advantage of no tampering or adulteration. The most effective method for the usage of marijuana will be the saliva drug testing method.


When coming to the drug detection period for each and every drug will be different. One can define the detection period as the amount of the time till the test shows the positive result. This varies depending on the type of the test which is used for detecting the marijuana usage.


Marijuana contains the active component called THC component which is the main cause for all the adverse effects. This active component will be checked using the saliva drug test.

Here by using the saliva drug testing, the detection period will be between 6 to 24 hours. After the completion of the detection period the presence of marijuana or the THC component cannot be detected using the saliva drug test.

At highways, in companies and in organizations where a safety environment is needed, in those cases, this saliva drug test is used for detecting the marijuana usage. The employers of the organization, or the people who want to make their beloved or children to get tested then in those cases, saliva drug tests will give the result for the recent marijuana usage.


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