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Blackshear M Bryan's avatar

Just a thought, what is the half life/metabolism of the drugs involved. How long since he last took the drugs and compare that to the above. Further what potential is there for masking agents in analyzing his results? It may be a value to have a toxicologist review the data. In some sports that involve muscular strength steroid use is common, however, they have been quite clever in developing regiments that leave the athlete clean when there is testing.

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Blackshear M Bryan's avatar

Thanks for the update. I knew about heavy metals, but not the narcotics. I wonder if the hair samples can give an accurate idea of what the levels were like you can with the blood samples. At any rate, fun observation, and I appreciate your bringing me up-to-date.

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Blackshear M Bryan's avatar

Oops, thought hair was primarily for THC but I may out of date. Also did they use GCMS for testing? To my recollection neither ketamine or MDMA are narcotics. In the end as you said don’t trust Musk.

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Geoff Anderson's avatar

I do believe it is GCMS, and they typically dissolve small bits of hair (they clip it) with an estimated 2mm of growth a week (that is from memoryO, and it is also used for heavy metals poisoning/exposure (not Ozzy though).

Turns out that pharmaceuticals also leave traces in the hair.

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Blackshear M Bryan's avatar

Interesting, I t

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Geoff Anderson's avatar

Yes but ...

There is test of his supposed hair, that will chronicle the use of the narcotics over time and is not tied to the metabolism flushing the drugs out of his system.

There are also reports that when spot drug testing was going to happen, he would be given enough notice to clear his blood/urine of the metabolites.

Nothing Musk does or says can be trusted

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Maggie Bennett's avatar

Definitely longer than usual! I had to skip over the Musk part because I’m so sick of even his name. Had to pipe up about “If you want to know what you think about a topic, write about it”. So true! I didn’t realize it until I saw it ‘spelled out’, if you will, but I’ve experienced it many times!

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Geoff Anderson's avatar

That is a very insightful coda

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