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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday July 24 2016, @10:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the when-brownies-just-aren't-enough dept.

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.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/colorado-town-s-water-may-be-tainted-marijuana-chemical-thc-n614731


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @01:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @01:20PM (#379390)

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @05:37AM (#379669)

    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.