Acid Trip Fish Caught Of English Coast: Spaniards Breathe Cocaine

IN Spain, scientists have detected cocaine in the air of Madrid and Barcelona. Free dugs! How’s that for a tourist drive?

The CSIC institute found cocaine in concentrations of 29 to 850 picogrammes per cubic metre of air. Know that a picogramme is one trillionth of a gramme.

Those looking for a free high will have to breathe in deep and long.

“Even if we lived 1,000 years we would not consume the equivalent of a dose of cocaine through the air,” says one of the scientists, Miren Lopez de Alda.

And drugs might be regional:

“Heroin was also found in detectable levels in the samples taken in Madrid, but not in those from Barcelona,” says the CSIC.*

Meanwhile, wait a moment before booking those city breaks to Spain and know that a species of bream, sarpa salpa, which can trigger hallucinations when eaten, has been discovered in British water.

Says Andy Giles of his catch in the English Channel:

“Now I realise what it was and the effects it can have, perhaps I should have taken it into town to sell to some clubbers!”

And let the English tourist board know.

* Samples taken before Champions League final…

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