
New York Post – Londoners are taking so much cocaine that it has seeped into the city’s famous River Thames, new research by King’s College London has discovered, prompting concerns over what it is doing to the river’s wildlife.
A team of scientists at the university studied wastewater that’s entering into the Thames from nearby sewers during storms and found easily detectable traces of the class A drug within 24 hours of the overflow, the Independent reports.
“Increases in caffeine, cocaine and benzoylecgonine [a metabolite] were observed 24 hours after sewer overflow events,” King’s College London researchers said in a paper that detailed their findings, according to the Evening Standard.
Compared to other major cities, the level of cocaine entering London’s water system — likely through users’ urine — is much higher, stoking fears that it may be affecting the eels that live in the Thames. “Drugs which affect us will almost always affect all animal life, and invertebrates a little bit more because their biochemistry is much more sensitive,” Robson explained. “Essentially everything in the water will be affected by drugs like these. A lot of the triggers and the ways that cocaine affects the system is really primal.” The cocaine problem plaguing eels has been discussed before.
Good lord I didn’t know British Eels got it like that. If I had to pick an aquatic marine life it would be eels that like to party. City Eels too, not salt water eels. Ocean eels are workers. But these City Eels hanging out in the popular spot. The River Thames just squirming and wiggling around dancing, bump a key, stay movin and groovin. We all got our vices. I’m not tryina control them. It might not be my thing but I’m not gonna tell them how they should live their life. But with the sensitive nature of drug use, you gotta understand when a casual party drug is turning to a problem that’s gonna really fuck up your life down the road. Listen we all went to college, us and these eels alike, but when you got cocaine pretty much flowing through your gills every second 24/7 its probably that point where its becoming a problem. Now am I a doctor or a scientist that can tell how much cocaine is flowing in the rivers? Nah, but Id imagine its almost like when they dye the river in Chicago for St. Patricks day.
I mean that would be such an irresponsible amount of drug use right there but how else are all these Eels getting tweaked out? The fun’s gotta stop eventually. It’s not a party if it happens every night and eventually you gotta look around and see how its affecting your own neighborhood. I hope for the better that these eels get it under control eventually.
Also its coming from British people’s piss so they’re getting pee’d on an coked up. Imagine getting a golden shower that dials you up to 11. Not great