Does Taking Niacin Cheat a Marijuana Drug Test?
Rumors that taking Niacin will cheat a marijuana drug screening test abound in mainstream America. People looking for the easy way out have been lead to believe that Niacin in large quantities will let them fool a drug screening test. It is particularly used for the lipid soluble drug marijuana because they think it promotes metabolism of the drug and causes it to be flushed from your body. However, that is a falsehood and it has been shown that not only does it not help them to pass the drug screening test but that it can also cause major overdose symptoms, such as irregular heart beats, blood acidosis, low sugar and even death. So instead of getting the job done, staying out of jail or getting into the service, you are now in the hospital or worse the morgue. The sad result is that Niacin does not work to fool a drug test, but because niacin is known to affect metabolic processes, there is a completely unfounded claim that it can rapidly clear the body of drugs such as cannabis. Howe
