Crabs on cocaine | DW News

Crabs on cocaine | DW News

crabs on cocaine that’s right British scientists have found cocaine as well as MDMA and methamphetamin in marine organisms how did it get there water pollution and sewage in an ongoing study volunteers and scientists concerned about the water quality collected hundreds of samples from two different Harbors in the UK the results show high levels of potentially harmful chemicals including prescribed and illegal drugs in both the water and Wildlife the full impact that drugs are having on sea life is not yet clear but scientists say they are already seeing some differences like changing color or how they grow and reproduce so if you cage a fish down stream of a SE treatment plant it will start to feminize within a couple of weeks if you give a crab or a fish anti-depressants it will change its behavior in very much the way it was designed to change our Behavior if we took that medication according to scientists raw sewage is only part of the problem compounds which the human body didn’t metabolize are flushed out to the Sea daily so if you see a crab scatterling forward it might be

Scientists have also detected different compounds in animals and humans, like PFAS, also known as forever chemicals, used in our non-tick frying pans and waterproof jackets. They say faster bans on these chemicals need to come.

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