Just caught this SFGate report on a recent study done in Madrid and Barcelona that shows trace amounts of various drugs in the cities’ air. The amounts even go up on weekends.

The Superior Council of Scientific Investigations, a government scientific institute, said on its Web site Thursday that in addition to cocaine, they found trace amounts of amphetamines, opiates, cannabinoids and lysergic acid _a relative of LSD — in two air-quality control stations, one in each city.

And I love that it’s the Superior Council of Scientific Investigations. They stepped in after the Inferior Council failed to locate anything. AGAIN.

Anyway, don’t buy that ticket just yet; the amounts are not nearly enough to get anyone high — and it’s noted that the measurements were done in the parts of the cities where drug consumption was more likely.  But mostly because the reason is we have plenty of drugs here in the good old US of A — and it could be anywhere, like this 5,408 pounds of weed found in a school bus!

Childlike sense of wonder = intact.

Oh, and because we care, if you are likely to get caught with drugs, or defrauding people out of their retirement or something, and you are deathly afraid of what will happen to you in “rape-you-in-the-ass prison”, you could do worse than to talk to the brilliantly named Wall Street Prison Consultants. Which is far as I can tell is one guy, Larry Levine, who spent a decade in various prisons and now sells survival seminars to white-collar criminals.

See? The world is your oyster.  And by “the world”, I mean “jail time”. Or maybe “chemical pollution”.