HUH??? - WH plan tests entire counties for cocaine

Fairfax Co. Takes Part in Unusual Wastewater Experiment
Mar 27th - 9:20am

FAIRFAX, Va. - Fairfax County is taking part in an unusual White House drug study.

Wastewater from communities throughout the Potomac River Basin is being tested for the urinary byproducts of cocaine.

"Apparently, they're able to ascertain how many people may be using illicit drugs, in this case cocaine, with such studies," Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerry Connolly tells WTOP.

Earlier this month, county workers collected five days worth of water samples at the pollution control plant in Lorton. The samples were sent to a lab in Rockville, Md., to be analyzed for the traces of the main urinary byproduct of cocaine.

"It does not indicate that we have an unusual drug problem in Fairfax County," Connolly says. "I'll be interested, obviously, in the results. It's kind of an unusual study and an unusual request. Obviously, we're prepared to cooperate with any endeavor to try to make sure the use of illicit drugs is discouraged in our community."

White House officials believe the wastewater testing will lead to a more accurate index of how many people use drugs than traditional survey research.

http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=737418
via:http://www.rawstory.com/

:crazy:

where do you live that you don't get a copy of your water test results ea. year telling you levels of arsenic etc?

My throwaway one-line post was a silly allusion to Bush's efforts to dismantle EPA water standards, but yes, you are technically correct. I probably could dig up a set of my local municipality's water test results -- not thanks to Bush's ongoing funding cuts at the EPA, but rather in spite of them.

I wouldn't want to mislead anyone about our Great Leader, honest.

he could have a "marketable" product there.

Sheesh! All they need to do is test the "waters" coming out of the WH.

of all the things they could spend money on.

The information gained could be very interesting.

conclusion -- the fine people of london are apparently bombed to the gills on cocaine at all times altho they seemed pretty relaxed to me on my last few visits

i wonder how accurate these tests are, they seem to show an awful lot of drug byproduct in our water supplies

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/bc-cri080305.php

just in time.

*Note to self; start setting up DU-members-only safehouse.

:D

vacates the WH. LoL.

:dunce: That will really tell 'em what they want to know won't it?? Excuse me...but even I think I know that people of all walks of life do drugs and that coke is the drug of choice...see...they could have give ME the money instead...oh wait...that would be blood money.

And the article from the WashPost:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=218&topic_id=1562&mesg_id=1562

and remove Federal funding.

Collective punishment.

Dumb ass idiots -- can they find more ways to waste money?