It looks like cocaine in the United Kingdom is now so common that traces of the drug have contaminated the drinking water supply. Scientists discovered the traces through conducting research after an intensive purification treatment that found benzoylecgonine, the end product of cocaine, in water samples.

Steve Rolles from the drug policy think-tank ‘Transform’ quoted on the alarming availability of cocaine in England, “It has (also) been getting cheaper and cheaper at the same time as its use has been going up.”

Move over German techno movement, Rolles reckons: “we have the near highest level of cocaine use in western Europe.” With 180,000 dependent users of crack cocaine in England according DrugScope, maybe it isn’t the British superiority complex. Maybe they are just all high on cocaine and it’s a false feeling of self-confidence.

The news follows recent UK drug laws and research that saw the banning of destructive legal highs from up to 20 music festivals including Glastonbury, as well as interesting research into the positive effects of ketamine in depressions suffers by the Oxford Health NHS foundation.

You probably won’t get much of a buzz from the doped up water, as the percentages represent only a tiny amount need to for any onset. All jokes aside, the purified water also tested positive for high traces of common cocaine additives ibuprofen and caffeine. ‘Somebody poisoned da waterhole’!

source: Mixmag > The Independent