r/drugtesthelp • u/exploroproducts • 15h ago
Cannabis Data from 60k people facing a THC test: 40% had 3 days or less
I'm on the team at Exploro, which runs a THC detection calculator. Between October 2025 and September 2026, about 60,000 people filled it out, and we pooled the anonymous answers. A lot of the questions on this sub come from the same situations, so I figured the patterns might be useful here. No links, and nothing below is advice on passing anything. But, hopefully, it would provide some perspective in a time of need.
How much time people had
40% of people who entered a test date were testing within 3 days. About 1 in 6 were checking on the same day as their test. Half had 6 days or less.
Why they were testing
49% said it was for a new job. Random workplace tests and legal requirements trailed well behind.
Home tests
41% owned a home test. Of those, 28% came to the calculator right after getting a positive result, and 12% couldn't read their result or weren't sure what it showed. Given how many faint line posts show up here, that last number didn't surprise me.
Worry
31% said they were very or extremely worried. That jumped to 55% after a positive home test, compared with 25% for people who owned a home test but hadn't used it yet. When the main concern was a job, it was 45%.
What people use
59% use daily or more. Flower was the most common at 41%, then vapes at 32%, edibles at 18%, and dabs at 9%. Age changes the picture a lot: among 21 to 24 year olds, 37% mainly vape and 15% mainly use edibles. By 45 to 54, vaping drops to 22% and edibles rise to 32%.
Smaller patterns that stood out
- Women were about 25% of users. 23% of women mainly use edibles vs 16% of men, but daily use was almost the same (61% vs 58%).
- Women reported more worry: 38% very or extremely worried vs 29% of men.
- 54% also use nicotine. Among dab users it's 64%, among edible users 33%.
- Sunday was the most common last-use day.
Caveats
Everything is self-reported, and the results are anonymized.
The people in this data were looking up detection times, so they skew toward people preparing for or worried about a test, and they aren't representative of THC users in general. The questions about test dates, reasons, home tests, and worry were added later, so those numbers come from a smaller group. Duplicates and impossible entries (like ages outside 16 to 80) were removed.
Happy to answer any questions about the data. I'm also curious whether the "1 in 6 on test day" number matches what people here see.