{"id":1809,"date":"2006-11-23T08:59:34","date_gmt":"2006-11-23T16:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/11\/then_again_they_also_could_have_just_asked_us.html"},"modified":"2006-11-23T08:59:34","modified_gmt":"2006-11-23T16:59:34","slug":"then_again_they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/then_again_they.html","title":{"rendered":"Then Again, They Also Could Have Just Asked Us . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to detailed analysis of the Hudson River, residents in the Hudson River watershed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/11232006\/news\/regionalnews\/n_y__blows_away_coke_field_regionalnews_marianne_garvey.htm\">consume more cocaine than anywhere else in the world<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Researchers for the Nuremberg&#8217;s Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research scoured the Hudson River for benzoylecgonine &#8212; a substance produced by the human body while processing cocaine &#8212; and found byproducts equivalent to a total of 16.4 tons of cocaine per year.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 3.4 million people ages 15 to 65 live in the Hudson&#8217;s watershed. Nearly three percent of Americans in this age group use cocaine at least once a year, according to the United Nations &#8220;World Drug Report.&#8221; That equates to about 95,000 people who are consuming the 16.4 tons of pure coke annually.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers also discovered more pure coke in our river than anywhere else &#8212; including Washington&#8217;s Potomac River and San Francisco Bay.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to detailed analysis of the Hudson River, residents in the Hudson River watershed consume more cocaine than anywhere else in the world: Researchers for the Nuremberg&#8217;s Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research scoured the Hudson River for benzoylecgonine &#8212; a substance produced by the human body while processing cocaine &#8212; and found byproducts equivalent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-need_to_know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}