I failed a work drugs test after taking CBD gummies I bought on Amazon

A woman who failed a random drug test at work after taking 'THC free' CBD gummies has learned she will KEEP her job.

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00:00Hi, I'm Caroline and I purchased some CBD gummies from Canary via Amazon about a month ago.

00:08I purchased them to help me sleep and to help me cope with the stress that I'm under.

00:13I did my research and made sure that they were THC-free, it says this on their website,

00:18it says this obviously on the packaging and it said this assurance was provided

00:23in the Amazon listing as well, so I felt reassured by that obviously.

00:28They're endorsed by high-profile celebrity Claudia Wincummon.

00:32I was asked to participate in a routine random drugs test the other day at work,

00:38obviously didn't think I was going to fail. Unfortunately, when the gentleman who did the test

00:45looked at my sample, he said, do you smoke cannabis? Of course I don't, but explained that I've been

00:52taking these gummies that were claiming to be THC-free, so of course I failed my test and I've

00:59been suspended from work and yeah, my career is on the line basically.

01:07I was pulled into a room with HR and they just explained that unfortunately we are going to have

01:15to suspend you pending investigation. So I'm still waiting to hear back, so I'm just kind of hanging

01:24on to see if there's going to be any good news. I have to make my case, I have to defend myself

01:30obviously as part of the investigation. I was told that I could go back to my desk, but I would have

01:35to be escorted, which would be humiliating. So I asked my work friend if she could bring the items to me,

01:41I was told I'm not allowed to speak to anybody from work and then I had to leave, obviously I had to

01:48leave the premises and I'm just waiting basically just to see if, I mean I feel like my world's been

01:55turned upside down, but just whether my career that I've worked so hard to get and to maintain

02:02is over basically. This is just not, I mean it's horrendous, I mean it's horrendous for anybody,

02:07but given the profession that I work in as well, I work in the legal field, so I work as regulatory

02:14affairs manager, so I'm reading legislation and preaching legislation and ensuring compliance on

02:21the day-to-day and then I'm testing positive in a drugs test. It's just the humiliation of it, so I'm

02:28praying that I get to go back to work, but then I think even if I do get going back to work, the

02:33humiliation of this is going to be quite severe. Obviously I'm not sleeping, I'm struggling to eat

02:43and I have to function, so I'm trying to dissociate from the trauma of it because I'm a little girl,

02:50but obviously it's hard to escape the fact that I'm a single mum, I've been my daughter's sole

02:54provider pretty much for a year and a half, for the most part of a year and a half, so if I can't provide for

03:00my daughter, I don't know what's going to happen, I'm just trying not to think too much about that

03:08because it feels like I'm in a nightmare, so I'm just trying to pretend it's not happening really,

03:15but yeah the physical symptoms, like my hands feel tingling all the time, you know when I talk about

03:20it and getting upset, so as I say I'm just trying to detach from it because I can't really process the

03:27reality, you know if I lose my job and I have to look for another job, I assume this, I will have

03:34to raise this, I would have to uproot my little girl from school, from all her friends, from the

03:39little social clubs, and yeah that's where I'm at with the situation. I will never have these ever again

03:47and if anybody was to ever think about having these, I would just beg them not to do it. If you have anything

03:53to lose, if you have a job, if you have a license, if you have a child, you know if you're in the family

03:59courts, god forbid, don't have these products because you could potentially have your child taken

04:05away from you, yeah please I would just beg anybody to just don't take them, it's just not worth the risk.