What are my options after a false positive for marijuana?

I recently went temp to hire at the best paying job i ever had. I took a drug test that showed positive for no good reason. My work was superb and i had moved up in the ranks and was going on business trips and planning my six Sigma green belt project that would save the company 225k/yr. After much research, I have discovered that I was using 3 things that could potentially cause a false positive. I was taking Ibuprophine for headaches for several weeks, my boss himself actually gave me some of these. I was also using a tanning product that contained Hemp. Who would have thought? As well as the fact that I ate asparagus the night before my test. I know this sounds like a crock, but I am telling the truth. If there are so many exceptions to the drug test, why is it so highly regarded as accurate? Of the long list of false positive contributers, I hit 3. I know there are more people that this has happened to. What can I do? Please help. I have 7 kids and need a job. I want my job back.What are my options after a false positive for marijuana?
First of all when a drug tests returns positive you are supposed to not only advise the employee or prospective employee but give them the opportunity to explain themselves and re-take the test (99.9% done that same day or following morning.) Fact, the unreliability of drug test are any where between 10 to 30%! A handful of States have enacted laws restricting drug testing in the private sector. Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Montana, Minnesota, Iowa, and Hawaii have adopted laws that limit the circumstances under which employees can be required to submit to drug tests. Louisiana, Maryland, Nebraska, Oregon and Utah have adopted legislation that regulates drug testing in some fashion.





Go to the website I posted below to read up on the laws of your State. You may have cause to file legal action.





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Your welcome and the best of luck!!

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i'd contact a lawyer
you are going to need medical evidence to support your claim, or see if the company has a policy to dispute the test result and allow a second test
I recommend:





Calling up your HR department and request for a re-test. Explain to them that you have a strong case for the first test result being erroneous. With any test, there is always a potential for a wrong result, including human minstakes. FYI, there is also a hair test you can do that will evaluate your use of banned substances in the past few months (assuming you have certain length of hair). You can even agree to being randomly tested for the next year. Most reasonable companies should give you a second chance.





If they will not, then your recourse would be to threaten to seek legal course of action. Just be ready to act on the threat if needs be. Companies generally would prefer not to spend hundreds of thousand of dollars to defend a lawsuit if it can be settled for the cost of a test.





All the above is based on the assumption that you REALLY didn't use any banned substances (yes, I believe you).