THC is insoluble in water.
The EPA is always fining the cities that have both an NFL and NBA team for excessive THC levels in the atmosphere. Surgical masks help somewhat. You’ll only want the mini candy bars or 4oz snack size Doritos at day’s end.
Rocky Mountain high?
If THC was water soluble then a bong would never work. The THC would be absorbed by the water before it reached someone’s lungs.
That 'ol Rocky Mountain High…
Yes, very limited solubility in water. 2.8 mg per liter (8 micromolar).
Therapeutic doses are in the range of 10 mg per day - so that would mean drinking >3 liters of a saturated aqueous solution of THC.
“State health officials say it’s too soon to know whether THC in the water would intoxicate people who drink it.”
That is not true. No one is going to get intoxicated. Theoretically, if you drank such water daily for some period, you might score positive on a drug test since the THC gets absorbed into lipid membranes and droplets and persists, slowly diffusing out over time.
It’s amusing what the absence of chemical and biological knowledge can lead people to.
I was just going to say that darn you beat me to it
Meanwhile in New Jersey Chris Christie is trying to figure out whether his water contains HAM
So, what’s the problem?
Wtf?
I’ll drink to that.
Could anyone please explain how THC could get into their water supply in the first place? I’m still stuck on that part.
As someone who goes through about 5-6 liters of water a day (it’s hot in Texas, and we sweat a lot), that stat isn’t comforting.
It’s not tHC, its halliburtons fracking chemicals
I’m waiting for more details, but I’m with you on that point that the story seems suspect. I believe the last line was that commercial production was not allowed within the city. So, there’s probably small grows and people smoking. I live in Sonoma County, California. Southern tip of the Emerald Triangle. This has been the local state of affairs for as long as I’ve lived here, and I’ve never seen a report about THC in our drinking water
Oh, wow, man, you were serious? Oh, dude, I’m sorry. Hey, Cheech, stop snorting the water, man. They really want the test!
Seriously, the little town is facing a severe vanilla ice cream and lemon oreo sandwich cookie crisis if the government doesn’t intervene…
This story is utter nonsense. I’m guessing it is a faux story, or some sort of goofball submission to the local newspaper in some effort to feed the anti-marijuana fears of this little town.