Why Do Londoners Flush Expensive Recreational Drugs Down The Loo?

[sandyRoe]

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/there-is-more-cocaine-in-londons-sewer-system-than-any-other-european-city-study-shows/ar-BBkHsLC?ocid=mailsignoutmd

[ummmm]

Expensive wee....

[aelmpvw]

when they hear the police battering ram on their front door?

[Prudie]

They pee it out rather than chuck it hurriedly down the loo when someone's coming don't they :-)

[sandyRoe]

Ah, I see. I was thinking paranoia might have kicked in after their first sniff and they threw the rest of their stuff down the tubes.

[jno]

I suppose if you were in a hurry you might mistake it for Ajax powder or something like that?

[sandyRoe]

It's to be hoped they never make a reverse error there. Ajax powder might scald the nose off you.

[jno]

I'm told people take it because it gives them Vim.

[Ric.ror]

I don't think coke is as expensive as it used to be

[ummmm]

I think you're wrong, Ric, it's about £70 a gram. You can get it for about £40 but it won't be coke you're shoving up your nose.

(and no, I don't touch the stuff, but I did watch someone snort a gram of glucose)

[sandyRoe]

Sweet ☺

[mikey4444]

Sandy...these drug addicts obviously have more money than sense !

[ummmm]

Mikey....recreational!!! Just like you recreationally drink!

[ummmm]

Unless you're happy to be considered an alkie?

[mikey4444]

Ummm....I seem to recall that we have discussed this issue before. In the link that sandy has used, it appears to be cocaine that being cited. Cocaine is a highly addictive Class A drug...here are the facts. I will continue to call cocaine users addicts, as long they continue to "use" it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine

From one of the early paragraphs in the Wiki link ::::

"Cocaine is addictive due to its effect on the brains reward pathways. After a short period of use there is a high risk that dependence will occur.[8] It use also increases the risk of stroke, myocardial infarction, lung problems in those who smoke it, blood infections, and sudden cardiac arrest"

[Baldric]

///Sandy...these drug addicts obviously have more money than sense ! ///

Yet again you have failed to read and/or understand the article.

It was a Waste Water Survey, the Drugs had been taken, passed through the body and then gone down the Loo

[Retrochic]

I know of some people who take the occasional snort of cocaine and they are not addicts -they can go for months then just have some for a 'special occasion'. I suppose if you started to take it regularly you may become addicted but the same can be said for booze and cigs.

[mikey4444]

Retrochic...what fascinating friends you have !

As far as I am aware, I don't know any drug users but I shall be asking my friends very carefully, over the next few days, just to see if they do use Class A drugs !

[Retrochic]

Down in the hood mikey...lol! You would be surprised how many people take recreational drugs,I've smoked quite a few joints in my time but never ever been tempted to try anything stronger. My sister had a magic mushroom dish in a restaurant in Hong Kong years ago and ended up in the Ladies Rest Room screaming there was a snake trying to get up her dress -yes very Freudian I know. One of our nephews 'partakes' of the white stuff very occasionally and I know when he's done it as for days later he is always sniffing as if he has hayfever.

[jno]

don't be silly, mikey, you're an addict if you're addicted to something (it doesn't have to be cocaine, or indeed anything illegal; you can be addicted to sleeping pills). Plenty of people take cocaine because they like it, as others take alcohol, without becoming addicted at all.

[ummmm]

Mikey...people who take drugs now and then are not addicts. People who 'need' to take drugs, are.

You really are being naive if you think that someone who has a toot on a Saturday night is an addict.