Can I test positive for marijuana use, as a caregiver for a medical smoker?

I am an in-home health aide for a man who uses medical marijuana. This includes administering his pipe to him, and helping him smoke it every morning... he usually takes just one to two puffs, but I am standing near him and holding the pipe, and I can smell the smoke. I am a non-user (of anything) myself, but I am concerned that the secondhand smoke may cause me to fail a drug test. I am planning on entering the health care field after this job and can guarantee I will be drug tested. Am I likely to test positive?

Yes, but the chances of it are HIGHLY unlikely, and that is fact, not fiction! As a matter of fact you would have to be inhaling it constantly as in living with someone who smoked all the time with you in their presence to even test positive for a trace. The reason I know this is because I worked in a clinic where we did drug tests and people would always come back and say well it was second hand smoke that made me test positive Doc, please write that in a letter so I won't lose my job and all the Doctors that worked there said exactly what I told you above. I wouldn't worry about it at all.

Yes, you can! You inhale it, it's just as bad as smoking it.

Marijuana stays in your system for approximately 30 days. I wouldn't worry about it.

Yeah, it may after long exposure. But you should have like a signed document from your employer or something that explains your situation in case it ever comes up.

Well not really unless you are tested and you have smoked it within like 3 weeks. Or if your in the same room and you have inhaled A LOT!!!! But if you are worried about it. Wait a couple weeks before getting tested or drink a crap load of water for a few days before the testing. But if he's only taking 1 or 2 hits off of it and you have never smoked then you should be ok.

It's difficult to say. It's definitely possible that you may fail a urine analysis because of the second hand smoke. In your defense though, you could always let them know the situation...and if the analysis showed trace amounts of THC, the employer may/may not be forgiving.
Tough descision.

no you can't.. i'm a seasoned smoker.. and it only stays in your system for 30 days if your a regular user.. and ur not.. so it would be less than that for you. Don't worry about it.. if anything wait atleast accouple weeks before you take a drug test at your new job...

If you haven't smoked it then it won't be in your system. The thc has to get into your blood, which second hand smoke doesn't do.