Yes! Hemp oil causes positive THC results.
Costantino A; Schwartz RH; Kaplan P," Hemp oil ingestion causes positive
urine tests for delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol carboxylic acid", J Anal
Toxicol 1997, 21(6): 482-5
Uttam Garg, PhD, DABCC
Associate Professor
Director of Clinical Chem & Tox Labs
Children's Mercy Hospital
Kansas City, MO 64108
Phone: 816-234-3803
Fax: 816-234-3794
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elser, Robert [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 12:01 PM
> To: 'Mailbase'
> Cc: Manzella, John
> Subject: Effect of consumption of hemp oil on THC in urine
>
> This is my first posting to this list, so bear with me in case I make a
> mistake. I'm a clinical chemist in the US at a regional hospital in south
> central Pennsylvania, one of your former colonies. In the US, the
> commercial agriculture of hemp is prohibited by the federal government
> because, evidently, of the botanical relationship between it and cannibis
> sativa. One of the staff physicians raised a question yesterday about the
> use of hemp oil as a source of omega fatty acids and wondered whether its
> consumption would cause a positive test for THC in urine. I haven't been
> able to find a reference to which I have easy access that would answer the
> question, so I'm posing it to the members of this list.
>
> Is hemp oil available in the UK? And, if it is, have any of you had any
> experience with its consumption being the cause of a positive urine THC
> test
> result?
>
> Bob Elser
> Robert C. Elser, Ph.D.
> Technical Director of Clinical Chemistry and Immunochemistry
> York Hospital Department of Laboratory Services
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> Phone: 717-851-2549
> Fax: 717-851-2707
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