The Truth About Marijuana-Contaminated Drinking Water
Thursday afternoon, officials in the small town of Hugo, Colorado, told residents they’d found THC—yup, that would be the psychoactive ingredient found in marijuana—in local wells. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment discouraged residents from drinking, cooking with, or bathing in the water, but subsequent tests revealed that there was not, in fact, THC in the water supply. Experts are still investigating, but it sounds like this is a case of false positives.
Although there wasn’t actually THC in Hugo’s tap water this time around, it’s not unheard of for drugs to wind up in a public water system. Pharmaceuticals can end up in your H2O in a few ways, such as when some of the meds in your urine that haven’t been metabolized remain after wastewater treatment—or when people flush unused drugs down the toilet or sink, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. But in...
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