Enrique Gili is a freelance writer covering Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (Researchers have figured out how to give an entire community a drug test using just a teaspoon of wastewater from a city's sewer plant. Kudos maybe we could filter out endrocrine disruptors and anti-depresents before they enter the food chain, or increase awareness on how to properly dispose of prescription drugs.
The test wouldn't be used to finger any single person as a drug user. But it would help federal law enforcement and other agencies track the spread of dangerous drugs, like methamphetamines, across the country. Crap, don't the cops enough tools at their disposal for the 'war on drugs' without resorting to community pee tests for selective crack downs. ( Courant.com)
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It has been known for sometime that you can gage the amount of consumption of some drugs in this way. As a tool for approximate verification of the level of drug usage it might have some minor value. I don't think it too likely that it will lead to crackdowns. That would likely require an alarmed public to generate political pressure.
Posted by: bigTom | August 22, 2007 11:57 AM
The 'war on drugs' is a joke, plain and simple.
It's becoming increasingly annoying that the government believes it has to think for a person. People are intelligent, often more times than the government.
It would be an intelligent move to end the 'war on drugs.'
Posted by: Sound | August 22, 2007 01:44 PM
Posted by: llewelly | August 23, 2007 12:53 AM