Study finds tiny traces of cocaine on U.S. dollars
Published: August 18, 2009
WASHINGTON — Chances are there’s cocaine in your wallet.
Researchers looked at 234 bank notes from the U.S. and found that 90 percent had small traces of the illegal drug.
Bills from larger cities, such as Baltimore, Boston and Detroit, were among those with the highest average cocaine levels. Salt Lake City had the lowest. Most of those analyzed from Washington had tiny amounts of cocaine.
Money can become contaminated with cocaine during drug deals, or when users snort the substance through rolled bills. It can then spread to other cash when banks process the money. Yuegang Zuo, a University of Massachusetts professor, led the study.
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..and the point to this study is?
I’ll take a stab, from most likely to least.
-To discourage prosecutorial railroading
-To highlight the potential for bank tellers, casino employees, etc to fail drug tests after doing nothing more than their job
-To highlight the futility of the drug war
-To scare people into supporting the new world order, hand in hand with a single world currency (sarcasm)
That money doesn’t deserve a second chance.
You’d care if a drug dog targeted you because you had somebody else’s cocaine on your dollar bill.
(disclaimer: submitter has no idea whether a dog can detect a trace of cocaine that small, but wouldn’t be surprised)
The point of the study was to burn up the last of their federal grant money so they could ask for more money.
..and the point to this study is?
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