DC: 7 tons of cocaine up the nose & down the drain
Recently a German research outfit tested wastewater in more than a dozen worldwide cities for metabolites of cocaine. The idea was to infer per-capita cocaine use by measuring the concentration of coke by-products (excreted through urine and then through the waste treatment system) in the Hudson, the Potomac and other great rivers of the world. The winner, by a lot: New York City, with an estimated useage of 134 lines of cocaine per day per 1,000 inhabitants. That's 16 tons a year. Miranda de Ebro, in Spain's Pyrenees, came in second. Washington D.C. placed third, with 56 lines a day per 1,000 inhabitants or 7 tons per year. San Francisco was fourth. No tests were done on the Patapsco.
Source: Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research. The study was cited in the United Nations' World Drug Report, published a couple weeks ago. Thanks to Big Picture for the tip.
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and you've got to figure, most crack and coke users in large cities like new york washington dc and baltimore are not placing their wastewater into the municipal waste system but rather in alleys. dont believe me, take a visit to the cities drug areas... or trust me that they're gross.
Posted by: friendsname | July 21, 2007 5:10 PM