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THC Found Inside Popular MLM Weight Loss Tea Causes Several People To Lose Their Jobs After Drug Testing

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People warn of losing jobs, testing positive for THC after drinking tea that helps weight loss​

ATLANTA — Local people who drank a herbal tea that is supposed to help with weight loss told Channel 2 Action News it caused them to lose their jobs by failing a drug test.

Total Life Changes (TLC) makes a raspberry lemonade Iaso tea that claimed it contained zero percent THC on the label.


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Women told Channel 2 Action News they thought they had nothing to worry about until they took a drug test.

“I had finally landed the dream job,” said Kim Agnew-Edwards of College Park. She worked in the airline industry for 20 years and finally landed a job with Delta Airlines.

“I was on top of the clouds,” said Agnew-Edwards.

She was furloughed during the pandemic and started selling TLC tea to make ends meet. The raspberry lemonade Iaso tea was popular with people who wanted to lose weight.

Agnew-Edwards even started drinking it.

“I lost 20 pounds, so I was excited,” she said.

Agnew-Edwards got the call to come back to her old job at Delta. But first, she had to take a drug test, and she failed it. “I almost hung up on her. She got the wrong number,” Agnew-Edwards said. She tested positive for marijuana. “I was like, this, literally no way. I said, ‘Ma’am I don’t smoke. I’m very health conscious. That’s not something that I do,’” said Agnew-Edwards.

She lost her dream job.

“I was standing in my kitchen. My knees buckled. I was literally to the point of fainting,” said Agnew-Edwards.

A family member showed her a story on the website of our sister TV station in Charlotte about how the TLC raspberry lemonade tea may have caused people to fail a drug test. She thought of the countless other people who bought the tea from her.

“Lot of emotions exploded in me. And by the evening time, I was angry. And now, I’m ready to fight,” said Agnew-Edwards.

She is not the only person to fail a drug test after drinking the tea. “It’s more than a dozen,” said attorney Kate Hollist, who is representing D’etta Friday of Hickory, North Carolina.

Friday also drank the tea to lose weight. She worked in a factory, having moved off welfare and trying to be a positive influence for her two daughters.

After an accident at work, Friday took a drug test, failed and lost her job. “I’m like, ‘Listen. I do not do drugs. I’m a minister. I do all kinds of stuff for my community. I do not do drugs, and I’m an advocate against,’” said Friday.

Our sister TV station in Charlotte, WSOC-TV, had an independent lab run tests on two samples to see if they contained THC, the ingredient in marijuana that makes you high. Even though the product label indicated there is zero percent THC, the lab found enough THC for someone to fail a drug test.

Hollist is filing one of three class action lawsuits against TLC.

“What we’re looking for is both justice for those individuals who have been particularly wronged — people like D’etta, who have lost their livelihoods,” said Hollist.

The class action lawsuit also includes people who bought the tea thinking it had zero percent THC.

Channel 2 asked TLC for an interview and received this statement:

“We are in the process of learning more of the relevant facts. We are not yet in a position to comment more fully.”

TLC removed the zero percent THC from the new packaging. But a Channel 2producer ordered the raspberry tea still labeled zero percent THC from a TLC preferred customer in March.


Agnew-Edwards said she still sells TLC products to make ends meet, but she refuses to sell the raspberry tea. “I won’t give it to anybody. Not a soul. I won’t sprinkle it in my grass,” said Agnew-Edwards.

Our sister TV station in Dayton, Ohio, noticed the zero percent THC is back on the packaging. But the raspberry tea is no longer being sold on the TLC website in the U.S. However, some individuals and websites are still selling the raspberry tea.
 
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Maybe its something else masking as THC?

Like something that metabolizes and triggers THC positive on labs?

that's how athletes get wrongly accused of doping because the scientists missed something in the nutritional supplements.

also, melanin in the organs and blood stream reacts differently to chemicals than it does in whites...we have more carbon than they do by default.
 

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Well it says BROAD SPECTRUM on the damn label. Before people start using these hemp products they really need to educate themselves on the risks. It sucks and i hope they can get some kind of justice.
A few years ago, I heard great things about this salve and wanted to get it for my mom who was recovering from surgery on her knee...i didn’t end up getting it for her because the product was “broad spectrum cbd” which means that there are trace amounts of THC and at a high usage of it, it could possibly show up on a drug test.
 

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This is horrible. Imagine you think you are all good, going for a job, and get this feedback on your lab test. You wouldn’t even know where to begin in order to find the culprit.
 

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A lot of these teas are bs anyway if you’re serious about weight loss these fad’s are not the way.
 
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That’s messed up! I wouldn’t continue to sell any of that mess anymore. I hope she can get her job back.
 

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Isn't this the same tea that Funky Dineva sells and promotes to users as a lucrative MLM?
He put Tasha K on to selling it also. I hope these people start suing.


 
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People getting drug tested on the job is fµck!ng waccckkkkkk.
I agree. Wack, indeed. I'm anti-illegal drugs and whatnot, but this sh!t is ridiculous.

I had to have a drug test a few years ago for workman's comp when somebody rear-ended me when I was on the clock. I was two or three months post chemo treatments and was prescribed pain meds for some long-term side effects.

Well, long story short - a "doctor" (in quotes because dude could've been lying) called me, interrogated me, and said that they found street drugs in my test. Then proceeded to ask me if I shoot up because the drug they supposedly found had to have come from using a needle. I was completely taken aback! After going back and forth with this n!66@ for way too long, I basically told him to get fckd. That's when he asked me for the prescription number on the bottle, put me on hold and called the pharmacy, verified the prescription, and got back on saying that everything was "good to go". I was pissed! Harrassed me for no good reason when he could've just asked for the damn script info at the beginning of the conversation. AND I listed all my medications on the freaking intake sheet. At first I regretted not getting his name, but it was for the best because I was gonna find his ass.
 

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