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[matt819]

1. Hey, I'm all for scientific research

But this falls into the category of "Really!?"

[lunasun]

2. Whomever authorized the funding must be high

[candelista]

7. Stop using "whom."

You don't know how to use it. It's never the subject of a sentence. And it's acceptable nowadays to use "who" as the object of a verb. So just say "who" all the time. That way, you won't ever have to learn how to use "whom."

And have a nice day.

Yours sincerely,

Grammar Police

[demigoddess]

18. thank you,

love the grammar police

[DLnyc]

21. Send not to know for whom the grammar police watch,

they watch for thee!

[Capt. Obvious]

26. Grammar is very important to the Nazi Party

[hobbit709]

3. Who flushes their pot?

or even their seeds and stems.

[happyslug]

8. So you piss in the grass???

That is what they are checking for, what is going from your body into the toilet. Your body removes these substances all the time, generally in urine. Thus this test is how much of these substances were pissed into the sewer system.

[hobbit709]

9. I smoke the grass.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. Don't smoke the yellow grass.

the advice about yellow snow seems applicable.

[KansDem]

4. So the feds want to know how much pot goes in the pot?

[RKP5637]

5. Well, this is some sh** surfing by them! n/t

[ananda]

6. Seriously?

What a waste of time and money.

I guess it must justify some jobs, though.

[SmittynMo]

10. Are you kidding me?

The Feds are paying for this? OMG. Do they know how many more mouths they can feed with this wasted effort. I mean, Really? We need to get the idiots out of Washington. Vote for Sanders. He'll take care of it for you.

[Igel]

15. Look at how much is spent on recreational drug use.

How many mouths could that feed?

At least this answers some questions as to the impact of a public policy decision on the public. If you're going to have an informed public policy debate, or have technocrats make informed public policy, you need information.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

24. So we shouldn't have any tension relief? We should just donate the money to food pantries?

Hopefully, we still get to decide how we want to spend our OWN FUCKING MONEY!

[Finishline42]

11. What it doesn't address is when they smoke

What it doesn't address is when they smoke, at home, at a bar or at work.

It won't prove anything.

[Igel]

16. Depends on sampling rate and sampling locations.

Weekend vs. weekday is easy enough to deal with.

But there's no need for them to just sample at the main sewage treatment plant. If they take samples from sewers leading from residential communities and near industrial or commercial areas, that would do. They could then even distinguish between different communities' pot use, grosso modo. (Since it's not sensitive to distribution--a relatively small numbers of heavy uses versus larger numbers of light users, for instance, would provide the same metabolite concentrations.)

In any event, some effects of pot use last more than 24 hours--delayed reaction time and impaired long-term memory formation, for examples.

[Finishline42]

22. Nonsense

To begin with there's no baseline to start from.

Then you have the issue which is the #1 issue with current testing for pot use - is that a person can test positive 3 to 4 weeks after use - so what does the presence of THC in sewer water going to say?

As someone else already said - it's a witch hunt.

How about testing for alcohol and coming up for reasons to make it illegal again?

[jberryhill]

14. Interesting

I don't know why people have a problem with studying stuff.

[olddad56]

17. will we hve a similair study on habitual alcohol and nicotine use any time soon...

this is a witch hunt.

[pbmus]

19. OMG, metabolites occur with any drug not just mj ...

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

20. Oh, Fuck these people!

[csziggy]

23. Do they have samples from BEFORE pot was legalized?

If not, how can they "determine whether the opening of pot shops increase a community's marijuana use"? Even if they are trying to see if the legalization increases recreational use, how can they measure the people who can now use medical marijuana for non-recreational purposes? I see some serious flaws in the assumptions behind their testing model.

I also question the weekend versus weekday concept. With our economy moving to service based employment a much larger percentage of people are working hours over the entire week rather than concentrated Monday through Friday and nine to five.

[NV Whino]

25. This is basically a study to see if you've answered a questionnaire truthfully

Not a study to see if this would affect community health.