Sorry, stoners. It turns out there’s no THC in Hugo, Colorado’s water supply.
On Monday, officials in the town of Hugo lifted a water advisory that was put into place four days earlier when they thought the water had been contaminated with THC. Levels of the substance, which is the active component in marijuana, were detected last week, but it turned out to be a false alarm.
Secondary testing has now confirmed that you can’t get high off Hugo’s water.
"Based upon the conclusive results now known to us, it is believed that there never was THC in the water system," said the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department in a tweet. Residents have been told to resume drinking and bathing in the tap water as usual.
Hugo officials probably could have nipped this thing in the bud earlier with some quick research. THC is not water soluble, so it’s improbable that it could have contaminated the water supply in the first place.
"I can't imagine, I can't even fathom the idea that THC would be in water at any type of solubility to create any kind of health hazard,” Joseph Evans, a former EPA scientist, told The Denver Post.
While officials may have been wrong about the THC, it is clear that someone did break into one of the town’s five water wells. An investigation into the breach is ongoing.
Read more about the THC scare here.
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