Highest Traces of Cocaine Found on U.S. Bills (drugs, dollar, money)

[norcalmom101]

Highest Traces of Cocaine Found on U.S. Bills - Yahoo! News (broken link)

"These findings should not be surprising, because cocaine and other drugs are traded using cash, which is handled by the same fingers that directly touch the drugs or wrappings," chemists Sergio Armenta and Miguel de la Guardia from the University of Valencia in Spain write. "Moreover, many cocaine users use a wrapped banknote to sniff this drug, so inducing direct cocaine contamination of the banknotes."

[Innovator831021]

Wasted research for about 20 year old news.

[Frank_Carbonni]

They have also found that one contaminated bill also contaminates many other bills. So the statistic that most currency has cocaine or other drug residue is more than a little misleading.

[cleatis]

yeah, money is actually filthy, we took a swab from a dollar bill and put it in a petri dish... gross, that's all I'm sayin... I want to wash my hands after handling money.