Drugs in the water now? Why??

So we've all heard crack pots raving about "them" putting drugs in our water supply. Part of me has always had suspicions but I couldn't quite make the leap. But today the AP released a probe result that confirms: They really ARE putting drugs in our water... wtf?

http://www.townhall.com/news/us/200...ugs_in_drinking_water?page=full&comments=true

 

yeah.. On college campuses they test the waste water and its high with cocaine metabolites, peaking on weekends.. What goes in comes out... in pee... SO dont eat yellow snow.....

 

It's not news that drugs are found in every major river- that's where it ends up after passing through your system. Even truly trivial amounts can be detected. The media usually spins this as "drug use is now so commonplace that..."

 

funny thing is, the day before this story came out...i was high and i was talking to my friend about how water was a conspiracy and the govt was putting hormones in it.

damn.

weed really does enlighten you!

 

Tell me, have there always been so many conspiracies as there is now? everything i have been reading lately is disturbing.

 

I really should amend my earlier post... the amounts are "trivial" in terms of having any drug effect on people. But the amounts are enough to cause medical experts concern about long-term exposure over many generations.

 

One final addition:

http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/08-03-19.html#skepticality

"Derek & Swoopy look beyond the headline hype in their interview with Dr. Shane Snyder, who published his first study on “Screening of Drinking Water for Possible Endocrine Disrupting Compounds” over ten years ago. As a doctor of Environmental Toxicology and Zoology, Dr. Snyder has devoted most of his career to studying the evidence of chemical, environmental and pharmaceutical compounds in the water supply — and what harm, if any, it poses to the organisms that utilize it."

I'm listening to it now, and it's much better than I expected.