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Drug Testing Entire Cities at Once
Ellis D. Tripp writes "Researchers have developed a technique for determining what illicit drugs people might be consuming in a given area, by testing a sample from the local sewage treatment plant. As little as a teaspoonful of untreated wastewater can reveal drug use patterns in a given community. Obviously, any drugs found can't be tied to any specific user, but how much longer until the drug warriors want to deploy automatic sampling units farther upstream of the sewage treatment plant?" From the article: "one fairly affluent community scored low for illicit drugs except for cocaine. Cocaine and ecstasy tended to peak on weekends and drop on weekdays, she said, while methamphetamine and prescription drugs were steady throughout the week."
what if someone flushes a bag of drugs cuz they know the police are gonna search their house? That'd make it look like 1000 people overdosed at once lol
Google's Super Secret Search Algorithm: SELECT @search_results FROM internet WHERE @search_results = 'good'
Results for Salt Lake City show very high levels of LDS
They'll also be able to tell if your city is pregnant
This is easily defeated using old technology -- go behind a TREE!
This drug war foolishness is getting out of hand.
My standing policy for piss testing is they have to collect it orally if they want if from me. Hot from the pipe.
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
... the drug taking sewer habiting alligators, always trying to ruin our fun.
On another note, I wonder if its possible to get a high of this water, and I worry about what the sharks with lasers might do when the rivers flow into the sea.
Wouldn't it be swell if these city wide drug tests revealed how much Americans just love their drugs and the whole silly war on drugs was called off on account of it being a hideous ineffective activity that probably creates more problems than it solves. Then again given that it was created to "stop blacks and asians from raping the white women" (tongue firmly in cheek) and to control the hippies... (history channel drug week is fun)
I don't care what you say, all I need is my Wumpabet soup.
... when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Find free books.
From now on I'm only relieving myself on the neighbor's lawn.
A urinal with a charcoal filter! ...and the follow-up patent, "A urinal with a charcoal filter... on the internet."
Affluent effluent?
Can I use your toilet , dude?
Whoooaa....
You already look like a moron when you're high, so just do your business in your pants. So you wont get caught.
They should test the outflow from the Whitehouse and Capitol...
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
No, I think only a small sample will do.
Gives a new meaning to "stool pigeon", doesn't it?
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"one fairly affluent community..."
Don't you mean "effluent"?
Beta only seems to work for Google. Such a shame.
Please allow me to take this opportunity to agree with you.
Mmmm....tequila.
Next slashdot poll: Favorite tequila
- Cabo Wabo
- Oro Azul
- Don Julio
- Jose Ceurvo
- Sauza
- CabelleroNeal
Procrastination -- because good things come to those who wait.
Original Post Submitted By -> Ellis D. Tripp
This is just pure coincidence, right?
Z.
...at a Judas Priest show in Salt Lake City. Caused me to see legions of wide-bottomed, watery eyed blond folks in suits on ten speeds.
I'll never touch the stuff again.
all New Yorkers will get their scheduled 10 hour stay at Riker's Island in the mail tomorrow.
don't laugh, Pittsburgh, you're next.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Oh boy, I smell the premise for a new episode of Law & Order...
There are two separate, yet equally important bodily functions...
Recursive: Adj. See Recursive.
Corzo!!!
Followed perhaps by Corazon, then Milagro....
Please, take Sammy Hagar's tequila off your list. Never drink tequila with a rhyming name.
maybe they all met at the clinic
Jesus, I'd just love to see the user interfaces *you* cook up!