 Okay, so. Cocaina. Cocaine. Cocaine. Cocaine. It's pretty well known that money is riddled with cocaine. Some 90% of all bills circulating in the states carry traces of it. It's safe to say that the stuff can spread around pretty easily. But here's the thing. Are those fish in the sea? Well, they're getting a whiff of that caviar too. God damn! You see, we're throwing a lot of our shit into the water. About five trillion pieces of it. And we know what usually happens to sea animals when they eat too much garbage. They die. Case in point. In 2012, Spanish scientists dissected a beach sperm whale and found 37 pounds of garbage blocking its stomach. Not exactly a great way to go out. And a lot of chemicals like cocaine are getting into the water system too. It's become a particular problem in Italy's rivers. Specifically the Sarno River. Some 15 grams of cocaine flow through the Sarno River each day. That's $1,800 of the stuff flowing downstream on a daily basis. But with powder chemicals like cocaine, effects on sea organisms aren't immediately apparent. So a bunch of scientists from the region conducted experiments in which they exposed fish to cocaine. Specifically to the most cracked out looking thing in the sea, the European eel. No, not that one. Yeah, this one. Anyway, after giving 20 nanograms of the stuff to the eels, they found some expectedly negative results. On top of exhibiting hyperactive behavior, the coked out eels experienced changes in the intestine and skin at the microscopic level. For instance, light micrographs showed a strong decrease in the number of mucus cells lining their skin. Which is pretty bad for eels, considering that the mucus aids in the defense against pathogens and helps them recognize sexual partners. Sex mucus. So yeah, the idea of a coked out eel is pretty funny. But the consequences of a chemically imbalanced ocean isn't. The fact is, we are pouring much more harmful shit into the ocean than cocaine. And while experiments like these might seem silly, what they show is a peek into the future filled with toxic oceans and coked out eels. So before we throw God knows what down the toilets, let's pause and reflect. Let's dare to keep the oceans clean and the eels drug free.