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Officials told residents of a small Colorado community [Hugo, CO] not to drink or shower in tap water Thursday because one of the town's wells may have been contaminated with THC, marijuana's intoxicating chemical.
[...] Investigators found signs that one of Hugo's five wells had been tampered with, but they hadn't determined whether someone deliberately tainted the water.
Hugo prohibits marijuana cultivation, product manufacturing, testing facilities and retail marijuana stores, although those activities are legal elsewhere in the state.
Peter Perrone, owner of a marijuana testing facility in the Denver area, expressed doubt that THC could be in the water. The chemical isn't water-soluble, he told The Denver Post.
It's unlikely that consuming pot-tainted water would cause lasting health effects, said Mark Salley, a spokesman for the state Department of Public Health and Environment.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @10:20AM
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/colorado-town-finds-no-marijuana-chemical-in-water-cancels-restrictions/ar-BBuIAHM [msn.com]
Meebee the original tester's fingers were sticky? Did he have cheetoes stains on his shirt?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @10:40AM
Dude, you just harshed my buzz.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @10:45AM
Picture a worldwide campaign to dose the water with MDMA.
And for at least one day, there will be peace on earth.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Sunday July 24 2016, @11:01AM
Russia may be working on a cobalt bomb. :-)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34797252 [bbc.com]
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Sunday July 24 2016, @06:35PM
Not really...it would just mean millions more hipster zombies instead of just the couple hundred thousand burning man glazed eye zombies that are mostly confined to Northern California, Oregon and Washington state.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @07:51PM
Guilty as charged.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @01:11PM
Best part is... The police test strips for THC came back with all the (multiple) false positives.
Now I wonder why that happens with police drug field tests? Any guesses?
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @02:25PM
No guesses needed.
There was a post about that a week ago on Techdirt, titled Field Drug Tests: The $2 Tool That Can Destroy Lives [techdirt.com], covering a NYT article [nytimes.com] from two weeks ago.
It's mostly about "Amy Albritton, who spent 21 days in jail thanks to a false positive", lost her job, her apartment and furniture (considered abandoned after disappearing for three weeks), now has a felony record (pleaded guilty to get out instead of facing three years in jail - after three weeks in jail, the evidence was still not tested) and can't get a new job (see: felony record).
All that because the cops used a cheap test (that also reacts to a hundred or so legal substances), treated it as definite evidence and locked her up. There are also a few more examples in there.
Down in the comments below the TD article a forensic scientist ("Jessie") popped up, gave a decent explanation about the tests and their unreliability.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @01:20PM
Bet Google News and Facebook will disappear that article and leave the false sensationalist one to stand come November.
If there were any justice in the world, the prohibitionist idiot who lied about the water just to start a national media scare about the dangers of legalization should be involuntarily injected with Seroquel or similar for a year just to see what living with depression is like for those of us who can't get access to marijuana that SSRIs just don't work for. Oh, and also caffeine injections starting around 9 PM so the dickwad can understand the insomnia that comes with it.
I don't know how to induce night terrors, but if there's a way that should be done to him as well. The little reprieve the shithead might get in the unconsciousness of sleep interrupted every single fucking time.
I truly envy our übermensch posters that require not even aspirin on occasion. I wish I knew life without this shit :(
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @05:37AM
No you don't. No really. That's your depression talking. I understand what that is as well, including insomnia, anxiety, blah, blah, blah.
I wouldn't wish what I have on anybody. The stuff that depressives, especially suicidal ones, deal with can break a person. No matter what a person has done, I don't wish to leave them mentally broken.
You wish to fire your heart upon him as if your chest was a cannon. I understand, but reconsider.