90 percent of U.S. money is laced with cocaine

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Traces of cocaine taint up to 90 percent of paper money in the United States, a new study finds.

A group of scientists tested banknotes from more than 30 cities in five countries, including the United States, Canada, Brazil, China, and Japan, and found "alarming" evidence of cocaine use in many areas.

U.S. and Canadian currency had the highest levels, with an average contamination rate of between 85 and 90 percent, while Chinese and Japanese currency had the lowest, between 12 and 20 percent contamination.

The findings were presented yesterday at the 238th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C.

Study leader Yuegang Zuo of the University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth said that the high percentage of contaminated U.S. currency observed in the current study represents nearly a 20 percent jump in comparison to a similar study he conducted two years ago.

"To my surprise, we're finding more and more cocaine in banknotes," Zuo said.

Scientists have known for years that paper money can become contaminated with cocaine during drug deals and directly through drug use, such as snorting cocaine through rolled bills. Contamination can also spread to banknotes not involved in the illicit drug culture, because bills are processed in banks' currency-counting machines.

"I'm not sure why we've seen this apparent increase, but it could be related to the economic downturn, with stressed people turning to cocaine," Zuo said.

Such studies are useful, he noted, because the data can help law enforcement agencies and forensic specialists identify patterns of drug use in a community.

Previous studies that have reported on cocaine traces on money have had several drawbacks, Zuo said. Some only sampled a small number of bills, while others destroyed the money in the process of testing.

Zuo and his colleagues used a modified instrument that allowed for faster, simpler and more accurate measurement of cocaine contamination than other methods, without destroying the currency.

The amounts of cocaine found on U.S. bills ranged from .006 micrograms (several thousands of times smaller than a single grain of sand) to more than 1,240 micrograms of cocaine per banknote (about 50 grains of sand).

The scientists found that larger cities like Baltimore, Boston, and Detroit had among the highest average cocaine levels. Washington, D.C., ranked above the average, with 95 percent of the banknotes sampled contaminated with the drug. The lowest average cocaine levels in U.S. currency appeared on bills collected from Salt Lake City.

Despite the high percentage of cocaine-contaminated banknotes, Zuo points out that the amount of cocaine found on most notes was so small that consumers should not have any health or legal concerns about handling paper money.

"For the most part, you can't get high by sniffing a regular banknote, unless it was used directly in drug uptake or during a drug exchange," Zuo said. "It also won't affect your health and is unlikely to interfere with blood and urine tests used for drug detection.
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Eh, I thought this was common knowledge for the most part. I suppose it's still interesting though.

"For the most part, you can't get high by sniffing a regular banknote, unless it was used directly in drug uptake or during a drug exchange
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hahahaha.
 
Well I'm sure most of my money is saturated in the stuff.
But still, I think that's pretty freaking awesome.
 
I'm gonna start saving my money, scraping residue off the bills and then snorting that rather than paying for my own ;)
 
why do people use filthy ass germ ridden green paper to snifff?
convenience ??? im sure


i dont wanna sound like a snob
but that money is more dirty than the coke they be sniffin


get a mc donalds straw them fuckers are fat
or some other tube

8)
 
^^ Actually there are glass straws you can buy offline for like $2.00 each and they are the best I've ever used. The dollar bill is when I break my glass straw or can't find it. And need that fiending hit, ya know ;)

And Dunkin' Donuts straws I think are even bigger then McDonalds. And they are orange, a much much better color in my opinion :)

But I agree. If you must use a dollar bill, use a $100
 
I'm going to get like 5 grand in one dollar bills and find a way to scrap all the residue off, take it back and do it again. LOL Just kidding. That would be to much work, but I bet someone will try/has tried this eventually.
 
purepremium said:
^^ Actually there are glass straws you can buy offline for like $2.00 each and they are the best I've ever used. The dollar bill is when I break my glass straw or can't find it. And need that fiending hit, ya know ;)

And Dunkin' Donuts straws I think are even bigger then McDonalds. And they are orange, a much much better color in my opinion :)

But I agree. If you must use a dollar bill, use a $100
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Fuck it I bust OC through Slurpee Straws, now those fuckers are big, and have a spoon on the end for dosing!!
 
lol that's disgusting, money is so dirty I can't believe so many people refuse to switch to straws =p
 
I love how they use "laced" in the title. That word has such negative connotations with the public, so it's obvious it's meant to scare people.
 
Haha I thought of this thread last night. I was cleaning my house yesterday and found two rolled up dollar bills. I opened them up there most certainly not just traces amounts of cocaine on them. Haha it was funny. I was like damnnn I could scrap this and it would be enough. Haha.

I just thought of that and went to the store and passed it on.

=D
 
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