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How Illegal Drugs and ADHD Medications are Polluting Urban Streams

Both legal and illegal drugs are polluting streams in and around at least 1 major U.S. city, a new study reveals. This includes amphetamines, which are biologically active and highly addictive. [1]
The pollution comes at a high cost, ecologically. Areas in some streams have high enough concentrations of amphetamines to alter the bottom of the aquatic food chain.
Study author Sylvia Lee said:

Spy in the sky: Baltimore police secretly patrol citizens with tech used in Iraq war

RT | August 24, 2016 Police in Baltimore are facing a new scandal for their use of surveillance planes from the Iraq war to secretly spy on residents. The aerial snooping has been happening since January without authorities informing the public they are being monitored for as much as 10 hours a day, Bloomberg reports. […]