Your cocaine is piss

[StoneHappyMonday]

Cocaine in sewage; London tops league table

Scientists say London has the highest concentration of cocaine in sewage of anywhere surveyed in Europe.

The data from the European Union's drug monitoring body found the capital slightly ahead of Amsterdam.

While London comes top for cocaine flushed down the toilet, Amsterdam's drains contain greater amounts of cannabis.

The results, which take into account the size of each city's population, show that on average, Londoners were flushing away 737mg of cocaine per 1,000 people during the week in 2014.

The amount of cocaine in London's waste water peaks on a Friday and Saturday, but then begins to fall away dramatically on Sunday and into Monday.

The scientists tested for five different drugs and found that Amsterdam came top of the league table for both ecstasy and cannabis. Oslo in Norway and Dresden in Germany had by far the highest amounts of methamphetamine in sewage - while London had no trace at all.

Story then descends into farce/shit about legal highs and the 'dark web'.

 

[yoyo50]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK64DqpIy0s

and Dinosaur piss is water

 

[One Thousand Words]

It's always who you know

 

[felix]

Statistics say that stastistics can say anything you want about your statistical agenda.

That's one of the worst articles I've read anywhere about anything.

"Home Affairs Correspondent"?

Home Office Bitch, more like.

 

[lurching]

Well, felix, this is not an opinion piece. It's hard to get riled up over this news item that uses wording such as "potentially suggesting" ;-) But still, is not a bad idea to take any stats with a grain of salt.

I wasn't suprised to see Dresden ranking so high in the meth ranking, it being so close to Czech border. But was Prague tested for meth?

Interesting note is that they could differentiate between drugs that had been processed by a human body and drugs that weren't. Apparently in Eindhoven (in the dutch province of Brabant, notorious amphetamine-producing land) the majority of MDMA and speed was shown not to have been ingested, while in Amsterdam most of it had been.

 

[ScotchMist]

When you think about how many grams of supposed
cocaine would have to be consumed to reach 737mg of cocaine per 1000 people that 737 would increase a great deal..

Be interesting if they tested for cuts to....

 

[Black]

The results, which take into account the size of each city's population, show that on average, Londoners were flushing away 737mg of cocaine per 1,000 people during the week in 2014.

so with something like 10 mio. inhabitants for the whole of london, that makes 7.4kg of cocaine per week flushed down the drain. i wonder when the first people will begin to tap into this goldmine. i think it's time to file a patent