Thread: Cocaine in your wallet?

Cocaine traces contaminate 90 percent of U.S. currency

Those dollars get around.



Drug dealers are known for laundering money. But if new research is any indication, they don't do a very thorough job of it.



A chemical analysis of paper currency revealed traces of cocaine on 210 out of 234 U.S. bills sampled. That's nearly 90 percent of the total - the highest rate among five countries studied.



The amounts found were not enough for someone to get high, says study leader Yuegang Zuo, a chemistry professor at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. The largest quantity of cocaine was 2,530 micrograms - less than one ten-thousandth of an ounce - found on a Canadian bill. Many bills were contaminated with far smaller amounts.



Still, the results could be a starting point for studying the spread of drug abuse, Zuo says.



The cocaine could have gotten on the bills because the money had been used in a drug transaction at some point, or perhaps because it was rolled up and used to sniff the illegal substance, according to the researchers.



Much of the money probably had no direct contact with the drug at all, but was contaminated when processed alongside "dirty" money in banks' counting machines.



The analysis was conducted using the techniques of gas chromatography and mass spectrometry.



The 234 U.S. bank notes were taken from 18 cities, not including Philadelphia. Money from Detroit and Orlando had the highest rates of contamination, at 100 percent. In Washington, the figure was 95 percent.



The intoxicating results were to be presented last night at the American Chemical Society meeting in Washington.



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You bunch of druggies!

[quote name='Sparta' date='21 August 2009 - 09:38 AM' timestamp='1250861927' post='8946']

A lot of times I take in cash that smells like crack, when it's recently been exposed the money can stink up a room.

[/quote]



Crack? I didn't think you snorted that shit, you smoked it?



What the hell do I know, I never played with such stuff!