Scientists drug-test whole cities

IcebergSlim said:
Oregon State University scientists tested 10 unnamed American cities for remnants of drugs, both legal and illegal, from wastewater streams. They were able to show that they could get a good snapshot of what people are taking.
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Or, for a cheaper alternative, they could read Bluelight.

What a pile of poo. :|
 
So this is how the government spends our money now, playing with our own feces... I've never felt more vulnerable for having a septic tank...
 
The Spot said:
I wouldn't deem it too abstract to imagine that at some point a person on parol or in a targeted federal area for drug consumption based on these results wouldn't have a collector placed in their sewer line for individual household testing behind the residences back.
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Only valid if you never have any visitors use your toilet... (& if you're that anal about such things you probably deserve it! =D )


I believe it was a German river. I also remember there being a super huge amount of cocaine metabolites.
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It was the river Po (runs through Turin) - they found loads of benzoylecognine in the water


Or, for a cheaper alternative, they could read Bluelight.
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Ah, but that's what someone with common sense would do - conspicuous by it's absence in a lot of government agencies =D
 
mulberryman said:
So this is how the government spends our money now, playing with our own feces... I've never felt more vulnerable for having a septic tank...
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At least they're not sniffing it. Go Jankem!
 
The government already has access to our electric bills, so they can tell who might be growing marijuana. Thus, they probably have the legal authority to drug test neighborhoods or even personal homes. Although this is more or less impossible now, who knows how it might be in the future.
 
"we used to have this thing called 'channel 1' in my high school it was a 15 minute newscast produced for high school students"

ha I remember that, remember the fried ketamine brain documentary on it? Or the Ecstacy burns wholes in your brain one. Or the one joint equals four ciggarettes one. or the Smoke pot and shoot your best friend commercial.

Yea, I learned alot from them
 
Field said her study suggests that a key tool currently used by drug abuse researchers — self-reported drug questionnaires — underestimates drug use.
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That's the real gem here. Someone is finally waking up to the fact that more people use illegal drugs than has ever been officially reported.
 
hmmm

would it be ecominally viable to getr heavely loaded waste and extract the drugs ?
 
Yes, especially for methamphetamine. If you saved up you and all of your friends' urine for a year every time you were on meth, and performed an extraction you could easily have a gram of recycled drug. Maybe even an ounce if you're all serious junkies.
 
Detected in the sewage flowing out of 1600 Pensylvania Ave, researchers found cocaine, the blood of virgins, and the tears of perished innocents flowing in great quantities.
 
It's entirely possible for them to narrow down heavy drug use by going up the sewage collection network. They do it with illegal chemical dumpers all the time.

Can we test entire cities for drug use?

Oui, oui!
 
58% of Americans now think that Marijuana is safer than alcohol. That's probably everyone that's done both.

I think they tested the effluent from the restrooms in the Italian parliament and found every illegal substance in there. It's clearly time to stop this charade.
 
Coolio said:
That's the real gem here. Someone is finally waking up to the fact that more people use illegal drugs than has ever been officially reported.
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and thats why i think the government will never publically release the results of such tests. it doesnt jive with their propaganda if the general populace was aware of just how many people use drugs. if it became known that not just junkies use drugs and that regular people are doing it, less people would support forfeiting their rights in the name of the "war on drugs."
 
I would guess that most people don't even realize that their rights have been forfeited, just as most people probably don't realize that they have certain rights at all and would most likely probably do whatever they are told by police and other agents of their government. I would estimate that probably at least 50% of Americans have no idea what the Contitution even is.
 
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