steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) (09/14/86)
Several people have mentioned various ways causing false positives on drug tests. Someone mentioned "poppy seed bagels." They were mentioned in an article I read as "perhaps," but the article said that "poppy seed cake," was much more likely to cause a false positive for opiates. There are a few poppy seeds sprinkled on a poppy seed bagel, but a poppy seed cake has many poppy seeds. I assume that opiates are found in minute amounts in other poppy seeds besides opium poppies and that there is too little to have an effect, but enough to foil drug tests. I suggest that we all start sending lots of poppy seed cakes to our representitives, bosses, police officers and others as an experiment in what happens when the system gets loaded down with "false" positives. -- scc!steiny Don Steiny @ Don Steiny Software 109 Torrey Pine Terrace Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060 (408) 425-0382
jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) (09/20/86)
In article <724@scc.UUCP> steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) writes: > Several people have mentioned various ways causing false >positives on drug tests. Someone mentioned "poppy seed bagels." >article said that "poppy seed cake," was much more likely to cause *sigh* I assume y'all are familiar with poppy seed hamentashen, which contain a heavy load of poppy seeds. I really like them. Does this mean I have to give them up if the CIA (or whoever) start testing all good Amurricans for opiates? Or ... good heavens, is that WHY I like them so much? ;-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-) -- Joe Yao hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP} jsdy@hadron.COM (not yet domainised)