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Gee whiz: Testing of sewage confirms rise in marijuana use
The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA) ^ | 06/20/2019 | GENE JOHNSON

Posted on 06/22/2019 9:09:24 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie

Edited on 06/22/2019 5:08:09 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

A federally funded study has confirmed, not surprisingly, that marijuana use went up in Washington state after its first legal pot stores opened in 2014. In fact, consumption appeared to double, at least in one major city, over three years

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: backbiters; cannabis; searchworks; seattle; sewage
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To: kaehurowing
Marijuana use causes permanent psychosis, szhizophrenia and brain damage.

Going through life saying and doing STUPID things causes FR users to create the same exact post several minutes apart.

21 posted on 06/22/2019 12:25:21 PM PDT by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: AAABEST

And to think I can remember when cocaine was not addictive and opioids were a great substitute for more dangerous painkillers.


22 posted on 06/22/2019 12:27:34 PM PDT by anton
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To: antidemoncrat

Lazy happy fish.


23 posted on 06/22/2019 12:30:33 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: kaehurowing

Lol. True.


24 posted on 06/22/2019 12:30:58 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: LouAvul

They are making the point for us aren’t they? We are all in a low grade stupor and don’t know it.


25 posted on 06/22/2019 12:34:21 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Redwood71
I can now understand why the salmon industry is having so much trouble up here in Washington state. The fish are getting high and can’t, don’t want to, or can’t find their way, travel up the rivers to spawn or get caught.

It could be all of the birth control hormones in the water are turning the male fish queer.

26 posted on 06/22/2019 12:39:09 PM PDT by seowulf
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To: Tax-chick

“... full of residue from birth control pills.”

Another case of dysfunctional due to the large amount of hatchery salmon. Research has often shown that hatchery salmon perform less well than their wild counterparts. The reason for this has often been attributed to genetic factors such as parent selection or to the lack of opportunity for Mother Nature to cull misfits.

And if you think I’m kidding? Well, I am. But there’s some truth to your post:

http://calsport.org/fisheriesblog/?p=1989

Since it’s California, they must have done an independent survey. And it kind of matches up to the current crop of governing body down there.

rwood


27 posted on 06/22/2019 6:34:26 PM PDT by Redwood71
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To: Uncle Miltie
unglamorous work of analyzing raw sewage

So analyze $20 bills instead. Paper money can tell amazing stories in our age of parts-per-trillion lab instrument tyranny.

28 posted on 06/22/2019 7:12:06 PM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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