THC – The Active Ingredient Of Pot – Found In Colorado Town Water Supply
HUGO, CO — (CNN) Colorado may be home to legalized recreational marijuana, but you won’t find any pot shops in the town of Hugo, where such businesses are not permitted.
Yet, somehow, evidence of tetrahydrocannabinol, better known as THC, has been found in the town’s water supply, officials said Thursday.
Field tests revealed presumptive positive results for THC, the principal psychoactive chemical in cannabis, Officer Michael Yowell of the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said at a news conference Thursday.
Testing continues to determine the level of concentration, he said. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation and the FBI are assisting Lincoln County’s investigation.
It has not been confirmed that the potential contamination was deliberate, Yowell said. But signs of tampering were found on one of the five main wells that supplies water to the town of 720 people about 100 miles southeast of Denver.
The contaminated well has been closed but preliminary tests suggest the entire water supply has been affected, Yowell said.
Hugo Public Works notified the sheriff’s office of the potential contamination earlier Thursday after discovering signs of tampering, Yowell said.
A reverse 911 call went out to Hugo residents telling them not to drink the water, Colorado emergency management department spokeswoman Micki Trost said.
The sheriff’s office issued updates via social media urging people not to drink the water, shower or cook due to potential contamination.
Don't drink the water in Hugo, CO THC in Water Supply
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Awesome, I'm heading toward them today. Looks like I'm not taking a shower until I hit utah
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Id be beyond pissed if my record got screwed with a failed drug test because of some stupid prank like this
I don't think stoners understand that they don't have to convince everyone they know to get high.
Although I doubt they spent enough money to contaminate water with such a concentration to actually do anything.
A water supply would be thousands and thousands of gallons, I'd assume the THC would dissipate into trace amounts.Dominick253 Thanks this. -
This just in: Home prices double in less than 48 hrs in Hugo, CO.
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The good news is I finally got a LITTLE buzz. The bad news is 15 gallons gotta get out and I can't move.
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Hate to break the news, but medication is found in a lot of municipalities water supply, from antibiotics, hormones, mood stabilizers, and other drugs. You take an aspirin, you pee an aspirin, what doesn't filter out through the kidneys goes out the other way, it can also exit the skin while sweating. Take a shower and down the drain it goes.
Not that I am happy with narcotics and other foul things in the water but this is old news and what is happening there is a scare tactic to try to get residents to want to ban weed there. I would bet that the thc was already in the water supply before it was ever legalized.
Notice that it was the sheriff issuing the warning, not a health adviser.Ruthless and Prom Night Dumpster Baby Thank this. -
Heck, bottle it up and start selling it...
Then the town could afford to bring fresh water in for them, if they want it that is.
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"Bottled* in Hugo at Stoner Springs"
*with absolutely no filtering whatsoever
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