Colorado town finds THC in its water, warns residents not to drink or bathe in it.
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[QUOTE]HUGO — This town on Colorado’s Eastern Plains warned its residents not to drink, bathe in or cook with its tap water on Thursday because officials said multiple preliminary tests of the water came back positive for THC, the main psychoactive compound in marijuana.
Residents were told not even to let their pets drink the water.
There have been no reports of illnesses or any symptoms of impairment from drinking the water, officials said at a news conference Thursday evening. Deeper tests, which could be completed Friday, are needed to verify the presence of THC and to determine the level of contamination, if any.
“We are checking to make sure this isn’t because of the field test kit — that it isn’t a false positive,” said Capt. Michael Yowell of Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office.
But Yowell said there were enough troubling signs for officials to take quick action.
Concerns about the water were first raised by a Hugo company using quick “field tests” to check employees for THC, Yowell said. The simple tests are similar in function to home pregnancy tests in that they can return only two results: positive or negative.
Yowell said the company, which he did not identify, had been getting inconsistent results and decided to test a vial of tap water, expecting it to be negative. Instead, the test came back positive, and the company called authorities.
Yowell said Lincoln County officials conducted 10 other field tests, using two different types of test kits, on the town’s water and six came back positive. Authorities later isolated the positive results to a single well — well No. 1, about a mile south of Hugo’s small downtown. When sheriff’s deputies investigated, Yowell said, they found signs of forced entry at the well, though it is unclear when the damage may have occurred.
“I wouldn’t be doing my job for my community if we just wrote this off,” Yowell said.[/QUOTE]
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Getting high by drinking tap water?
What a time to be alive.
why, is this funny?
Don't drink the water. They put something in it. Something to make you.... [i]reelaaaaaxxx... [/i]
[QUOTE=CruelAddict;50755800]Getting high by drinking tap water?
What a time to be alive.[/QUOTE]
I'm having a headache just thinking about it
Someone, bottle this water and sell it for profit.
How does THC even get in tap water??
[QUOTE=Kylel999;50756289]How does THC even get in tap water??[/QUOTE]
I imagine that town is probably full of stoners and since *some* THC comes out unmetabolized in your urine it's likely the sewage gets dumped into the same reservoir they get the drinking water from.
[QUOTE=Kylel999;50756289]How does THC even get in tap water??[/QUOTE]
THC is water soluble, dump a shit load of bud in the river/lake and you will see THC downstream.
[QUOTE=Smoked2Joints;50756347]THC is water soluble, dump a shit load of bud in the river/lake and you will see THC downstream.[/QUOTE]
Bud =/= THC
You have to heat it to obtain the active THC molecule, otherwise it's trapped in the plant.
Points to something other than just plant pollution. Probably by-products of wax production or something, or like what someone above said about piss
[QUOTE=nickohlus;50756437]Bud =/= THC
You have to heat it to obtain the active THC molecule, otherwise it's trapped in the plant.
Points to something other than just plant pollution. Probably by-products of wax production or something, or like what someone above said about piss[/QUOTE]
I would chalk it up to the concentrates production more than anything else, it's a very intensive process and there's a fair bit of waste from it.
[QUOTE=Smoked2Joints;50756347]THC is water soluble, dump a shit load of bud in the river/lake and you will see THC downstream.[/QUOTE]
is it? doesn't almost (?) every edible use butter in the recipe because THC is fat solluble and not water solluble?
If a city is inclined to have water that doesn't have anything in it, that's fine, and they should do what they can to achieve that goal.
But THC in your water?
Bruh, you'll be fine. Drink that shit, bathe in it. You won't feel shit anyway.
[QUOTE=Smoked2Joints;50756347]THC is water soluble, dump a shit load of bud in the river/lake and you will see THC downstream.[/QUOTE]
THC is fat soluble man, that's why it shows up in drug tests upwards of a month later. I'd say it was the shitty drug tests that gave this result, there's no reason why tap water would be carrying THC, wouldn't any potential sediments just settle out at the water treatment facility? Also those drug tests are extremely sensitive, at least some are. Stick to labs, not quick portable ones.
[editline]sure[/editline] I missed the part about the well that they isolated the positive results to, it sounds like someone was dumping leftover stuff from extract production. Still, as sensitive as those field kits are, the amount of THC required to be detected is probably in the microgram range, I wouldn't be worried about accidentally getting high.
I'd be more worried about whatever is allowing this lipophillic compound to be significantly detectable in their drinking supply
Pretty clear it's just a field test issue
[quote]When sheriff’s deputies investigated, Yowell said, they found signs of forced entry at the well, though it is unclear when the damage may have occurred.[/quote]
[quote]Some, like 90-year-old Maye Gene Lee, a former mayor of the town, were angry at the possibility that saboteurs may have struck the town’s water supply.
“If I could have gotten my hands on them, I would have taken care of them myself,” she said. “We shouldn’t have to worry about that. And if it happens out here in Hugo, Colo., it can happen any place.”[/quote]
seems like someone might've broken entry to fuck with the water too, let's not disregard that
Only issue i could think of being possible wouls be maybe people tripping off drug tests at work, if they drink the water, I guess?
Dunno if Colorado even allows it anymore, but I guess an out of state resident could get dinged for it.
[QUOTE=evilweazel;50757729]Only issue i could think of being possible wouls be maybe people tripping off drug tests at work, if they drink the water, I guess?
Dunno if Colorado even allows it anymore, but I guess an out of state resident could get dinged for it.[/QUOTE]
Depends. Problem is that actually claiming whether or not the effects are harmful both long and short term would require a study. As is stands, it would be smart to be safe than sorry. And besides, there are already enough problems with water treatment as is without adding to it further.
[QUOTE=evilweazel;50757729]Only issue i could think of being possible wouls be maybe people tripping off drug tests at work, if they drink the water, I guess?
Dunno if Colorado even allows it anymore, but I guess an out of state resident could get dinged for it.[/QUOTE]
Colorado does. Testing has actually increased since legalization following a push from insurance companies offering cheaper health insurance for companies that drug test.
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