How Long Does Marijuana Stay In Your System?

It is hard to give a precise answer of "How Long Does Marijuana Stay In Your System?". There are several factors which will effect the amount of time marijuana will remain present in the body. On average Marijuana will be detectable for 3-10 days for a casual user, up 30 days for a persistent user, and up to 90 days for a chronic marijuana user.

Below we discuss the factors to consider in which marijuana (weed, thc) will leave the body.
However, we suggest that you purchase a marijuana drug test kits to drug test yourself to make sure you are clean of thc before any marijuana drug test.

amount of marijuana used

For a first time pot user, thc will remain detectable in the body for a period up to 7 days. For a casual marijuana user (2-3 times a week); thc can be detectable for a period up to 21 days. Chronic users who smoke pot everyday can expect to excrete thc toxins for up to 90 days. This is an extremely long time for such a relatively harmless drug to be detectable in a drug test.

quality of marijuana used

Currently t he marijuana found in the United States has a THC concentration of around 8.5%- 9%. In the early 1990s the thc concentration was around 3.5%. It is estimated that marijuana sold in coffee shops in Amsterdam has a THC concentration of around 19 percent. Since marijuana comes in so many different strength; it is relatively impossible to know exactly what level of THC concentration a person is ingesting when using marijuana. If a casual user were to smoke an incredibly potent strain of marijuana, it would have the same effect on THC content in a person’s fat, as if a chronic or daily user were to smoke a less potent strain of marijuana, and thus take longer to excrete out of the system.

metabolic rate

A metabolic rate is the rate at which a person's body run. A person with a faster metabolic rate will have a shorter detectable time for weed than a person with a slower rate. That being said, a person who smoked pot recently and has a fast metabolic rate will excrete larger amounts of thc than a person with a slower metabolic rate. This is important if you are using a temporary detox product to pass a drug test. The metabolic rate ties in with the next factor in determining how long marijuana stays in your system:

body fat percentage

Body fate percentage is critical to determine how long thc will stay in your system. A person has to be honest with the amount of body fat they have because THC is stored in the fat cells in your body. So the more fat cells that you have the more storage space you have for marijuana.

It takes an extremely long time in order to pass a hair drug test for marijuana. The reason for this is two fold.
First in order to pass a hair drug test a person must grow hair which is free of thc toxins. So if it takes your system 30 days to be clean of weed then your body will not start growing clean hair follicles until 30 days after you stop smoking pot!

On average hair grows at a rate of .5 inches per month. A hair drug test usually requires 1.5 inches of hair, which will test for the past 90 days, (remember hair grows .5 inches a month.) So using this example you decide to quit smoking weed today, and you have a hair length of 2 inches it will take 4 months in order for you to give a 1.5 inch sample of hair which is free of thc.

This is calculated by,
1. 30 days in order to start producing hair clean of thc
2. 90 days to grow a hair sample of 1.5 inches

Remember that 2 inches of original hair is needed (removed, cut) for a hair sample.

The good news? You can purchase a detox shampoo to pass a hair drug test it will strip your hair of thc!