Study: 90% of U.S. currency has cocaine residue on it

[CoolBreeze]

Girl Of Words caught this great story:

Your money needs laundering.

A new study found that almost all the bank notes in circulation in this country are contaminated with cocaine.

An average of about 85% of US greenbacks had traces of the drug - up 20% since the same team did a similar study two years ago.

"To my surprise, we're finding more and more cocaine in banknotes," said Dr. Yuegang Zuo, who led the researchers at the University of Massachusetts.

"It could be related to the economic downturn, with stressed people turning to cocaine."

Bills become drug money when users snort the powder through rolled up notes, or handle bills with powder-coated hands. Grains of cocaine then transfer to clean bills in pockets, wallets and bank counting machines across the country.

Zuo presented his findings Monday at the biannual meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C. - the city that ranked highest in the survey for coke contamination.

Fully 95% of the Washington bills sampled had cocaine on them. Of the 17 US cities tested, clean-living Salt Lake City had the lowest levels of contamination.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/0 ... z0Ouu2pYOk

[Hoosier Daddy]

x never mind

[fearpeddler]

everyone and their mother have done this story at least once a year for the last 5 or so if my memory recalls correctly, I'm just suprised people are shocked at little "fun facts" like these...

[Bob Campbell]

Interesting, but 25 years old news. We knew that in the 80's.