Ep. 467: Cocaine Salmon, Legislative Scorecard, and Oh My God It's Dry in the West
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🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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This week, Cal breaks down recent research on the effects of hard drugs on Atlantic Salmon, western drought, and the wins-and-losses of all our legislative calls to action so far this year.
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| 0:54.0 | A new study looked at |
| 0:56.3 | Coked up Atlantic salmon. Yes, you heard that right. |
| 1:00.0 | Researchers in Sweden completed a research project that assessed the effects of cocaine |
| 1:04.4 | and its metabolite, benzal-econin. |
| 1:08.2 | Ech-jonin? |
| 1:09.4 | Benzel-Ech-Genin. |
| 1:10.9 | Well, it's a mouthful. |
| 1:12.8 | On fish. To do this, they fed hatchery smolt's |
| 1:16.5 | slow-release drug capsules before releasing them into a lake and then |
| 1:20.5 | studied their behavior and survival rates. |
| 1:22.9 | The high salmon swam about 20% faster and twice as |
| 1:26.7 | far as their sober counterparts. |
| 1:29.1 | Surprisingly enough, they also survived significantly longer in the wild. |
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