Yo--for almost 30 years now I've been taking them.
And can you HONESTLY show me a "false positive"? Seriously? If you knew SHIT about how, for example, the military urinalysis system worked, you'd be incredibly silent on the concept of false positives.
Oh, and all that "Golden Seal", etc? Doesn't work--especially on pot, which is fat soluble.
Cool out Sparky, when the military started doing the piss test in the early 80's there were a few problems here.
I do know of one Ship stationed in Norfork that discharged 3 sailors for a positive reading.
These kids did not drink coffee or tea, no booze, smoke cigarettes or even eat chocolate, they were MORMON.
I do not know how things work today in the military, but I do know that a false positive back then caused the family's of Mormon family's to storm the powers that be.
Now about military testing of blood. In Portsmouth VA. I was waiting in a room that had a long glass window behind that was the lab that worked on blood samples.
As I waited for a tech to take my blood, I watched the people behind the glass test and do whatever to blood samples.
I saw with my very own eyes a male pick up a vile of blood and drop it on the floor. the tubes were glass at that time and broke. The Tech got all out of shape and stormed out of the room opening the door and I heard him say that the sample was inclusive and needed to be taken again.
Don't mess with me about Military medicine Sparky, I was born in a Navy Hospital and at one time or another spent 40 years in Navy, Airforce, and Army hospitals .
Sparky I know how Com suer works, find a pharmacists Mate with 2 weeks to go for separations and work out a deal.
Hubby traded $50.00 bucks to a shipyard worker to get the diving alarm off a boat due to go into moth balls.---- The ships clock off the pig boat he was qualified on went to some Captain willing to pay $1,500 for it.
You get a Captain whose son flunks a piss test--- really the test will come back inconclusive and no one bothers to retest him.
I was born into a Navy family, raised in a Navy family and raised 4 kids in in a Navy family, now just how many years did you spend in the Navy.?
I have seen 40 years of changes in the military, and you experienced 6-8 years.
When I was a kid Navy housing was segregated, the Philippine sailors did the laundry and shined the officers shoes.
I watched as Rickover became against all odds the father of the nuclear Sub Navy.
Sparky you were years away from birth when I was living the life of a dependent and even young myself absorbing the life.
So what the ****, years before you were born I was a little girl waiting for an ASR to come in and have my Daddy in a decompression tank.
So you can stick a pickle up your ass and eat liver and onions.