Canadian currency contains traces of cocaine: study

Dukesdad · Aug 17, 2009

Think you've never touched cocaine in your life? Think again, says a new study, which found traces of the drug on more than 85 per cent of Canadian paper currency.
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Researchers from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth conducted chemical tests on banknotes from 30 cities in five countries: Canada, the United States, Brazil, China and Japan.
They found the highest levels of cocaine on U.S. and Canadian currency, which had an average contamination rate of between 85 and 90 per cent.
China and Japan had the lowest contamination rates, between 12 and 20 per cent. Brazil was still high at 80 per cent of notes contaminated with coke.
The researchers presented their findings Sunday at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington.
The findings suggest cocaine abuse is a more widespread problem than the average person realizes, and may be on the rise in some regions, lead study author Yuegang Zuo said in a news release.
According to Zuo, the percentage of contaminated U.S. currency rose nearly 20 per cent compared to a similar study conducted two years ago.
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Mooney · Aug 17, 2009

90% of U.S. currency is tainted.

Baack · Aug 17, 2009

Mooney said: ↑

90% of U.S. currency is tainted.
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Filed in the folder marked facts most people would never imagine is the news that nearly nine out of 10 bills in the U.S. are contaminated with cocaine.
Data released by the American Chemical Society says that cocaine is present in up to 90 percent of paper money in the United States, particularly in large cities such as Baltimore, Boston, and Detroit. The scientists found traces of cocaine in 95 percent of the banknotes analyzed from Washington, D.C., alone.
Many of those bills were used at some point to actually take cocaine, but many were contaminated by being bundled with tainted bills.
The problem is growing rapidly. Two years ago, the number was 67%.
The information raises the opportunity for law enforcement agencies to use the traces of the substance to track the international movement of drugs. Most large transactions for products like cocaine and heroin are done in cash. The flow of illicit drugs has been nearly impossible to trace. That may have changed in just the last year or so.
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http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/t...lmost-90-of-us-bills-have-cocaine-traces.aspx

Dukesdad · Aug 17, 2009

Baack

Thanks for fixing my post.
Guess that's why you make the big bucks.

112racing · Aug 17, 2009

Research presented this weekend reinforced previous findings that 90 percent of paper money circulating in U.S. cities contains traces of cocaine.Although the contaminated bills do not affect health, Negrusz said, they could cause in a false positive drug test if a person, such as a law enforcement officer or banker, handles contaminated currency repeatedly.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/14/cocaine.traces.money/index.html

kajidono · Aug 18, 2009

The best part of knowing about this is reading about people sent to prison because the cops found money on them that had trace amounts of cocaine on it. Duurrrr.

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