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Cocaine on Money: Drug Found on 90% of U.S. Bills
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Cocaine on Money: Drug Found on 90% of U.S. Bills
Christine Dell'Amore in Washington, D.C.
National Geographic News
August 16, 2009

If you live in the United States or Canada, chances are you have cocaine in your wallet.

Nearly nine out of ten bills circulating in the U.S. and its northern neighbor are tainted with cocaine, according to what's being called the most definitive research to date on the subject.

What's more, researchers were surprised to find hints that more Americans are using the illegal drug, said study leader Yuegang Zuo of the University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth.

In a similar study by the same team in 2007, 67 percent of U.S. bills were found to be tainted with cocaine. The new study puts the percentage at 85 to 95—a jump of roughly 20 percent, Zuo said.

The drug gets on paper money during drug transactions and when people roll bills to snort cocaine powder, Zuo said.

Stress spurred by the worldwide financial crisis may be driving people to abuse cocaine, one of the most common illegal drugs in the world, Zuo said in a phone interview.

The new findings could "help raise public awareness about cocaine use and lead to greater emphasis on curbing its abuse," Zuo said in a follow-up email.

Cocaine Country

Part of the reason the new study is so complete, Zuo said, is because the team used new equipment, a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer, which doesn't ruin the money—allowing the scientists to test more bills without breaking the bank.

The team collected banknotes from the Brazil, Canada, the U.S., China, and Japan.

With 5.8 million people having used the drug at least once in 2007, the U.S. is the world's biggest cocaine market, according to the 2009 UN World Drug Report.

Perhaps not surprisingly, then, the U.S.—along with Canada—had the highest percentage of cocaine-permeated bills in the study.

Of the 234 U.S. bills collected in 17 large and small cities, nearly 90 percent had traces of cocaine, especially in larger cities such as Baltimore, Boston, and Detroit. Ninety-five percent of the dollars found in Washington, D.C., had cocaine embedded in their fibers—among the highest in the study.

(See pictures of cocaine-cultivating country in National Geographic magazine.)
In keeping with their reputations for having relatively low rates of cocaine use, China and Japan yielded bills with relatively low levels of cocaine contamination.

Asian drug-taking practices could conceivably be partly responsible for the lower percentages of cocaine-tainted bills. Zuo doesn't know, for example, whether Asian cocaine users inhale through rolled bills as many Western users do.

"It is for sure that drug abuse in different countries and regions has different use patterns which may affect cocaine contamination on money," he said via email.

Regardless of where you live, though, there's little chance of getting buzzed off your bills, Zuo said. Even in the U.S. and Canada, the concentrations are simply too small.

Findings today at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/090816-cocaine-money.html


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Re: Cocaine on Money: Drug Found on 90% of U.S. Bills [Re: motaman]
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I know I have contributed my fair share!


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Try practicing safe sex and go fuck yourself!

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Re: Cocaine on Money: Drug Found on 90% of U.S. Bills [Re: motaman]
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motaman said:
What's more, researchers were surprised to find hints that more Americans are using the illegal drug, said study leader Yuegang Zuo of the University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/090816-cocaine-money.html


I thought it was a pretty well known trend that drug use goes up when the economy is down. :confused:

Its probably good that cocaine is still the top choice stimulant in the US rather than methamphetamine.


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Re: Cocaine on Money: Drug Found on 90% of U.S. Bills [Re: pazzy]
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Still can't beat Ireland at 100%

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6250189.stm


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Re: Cocaine on Money: Drug Found on 90% of U.S. Bills [Re: DeeGee]
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does this mean if someone had the right chemicals they could make an extraction?


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Re: Cocaine on Money: Drug Found on 90% of U.S. Bills [Re: Invisible_Woe]
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Invisible_Woe said:
does this mean if someone had the right chemicals they could make an extraction?


You just need a coke magnet. Easy to find, tall, skinny, found in Hollywood.


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Re: Cocaine on Money: Drug Found on 90% of U.S. Bills [Re: Xaemian]
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Xaemian said:
Invisible_Woe said:
does this mean if someone had the right chemicals they could make an extraction?


You just need a coke magnet. Easy to find, tall, skinny, found in Hollywood.


best thing ever posted on these boards. thank you kind sir.

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Re: Cocaine on Money: Drug Found on 90% of U.S. Bills [Re: motaman]
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motaman said:
Cocaine on Money: Drug Found on 90% of U.S. Bills
Christine Dell'Amore in Washington, D.C.
National Geographic News
August 16, 2009


The new findings could "help raise public awareness about cocaine use and lead to greater emphasis on curbing its abuse," Zuo said in a follow-up email.



Yes, that will work. The fact that it hasn't worked so far despite all the anti-drug efforts and awareness is just down to not trying hard enough.


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Re: Cocaine on Money: Drug Found on 90% of U.S. Bills [Re: buddhabadger]
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buddhabadger said:
motaman said:
Cocaine on Money: Drug Found on 90% of U.S. Bills
Christine Dell'Amore in Washington, D.C.
National Geographic News
August 16, 2009


The new findings could "help raise public awareness about cocaine use and lead to greater emphasis on curbing its abuse," Zuo said in a follow-up email.



Yes, that will work. The fact that it hasn't worked so far despite all the anti-drug efforts and awareness is just down to not trying hard enough.


:rofl:

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Re: Cocaine on Money: Drug Found on 90% of U.S. Bills [Re: OrgasmicBanana]
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Remind me to sniff my wallet.


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Re: Cocaine on Money: Drug Found on 90% of U.S. Bills [Re: smack]
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You'd think that if it were found on 90% of the bills, they'd heed the wisdom of the saying "only a fool tries the same thing expecting a different result" and find new approaches to curb use (hint: education, not propaganda, regulation, not prohibition!).

I bet if a statistic came out that 95% of the population has used marijuana, the policy would still be "appears we need harsher penalties, lol!"


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Re: Cocaine on Money: Drug Found on 90% of U.S. Bills [Re: motaman]
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:nonono:
this isn't new, certainly shouldn't be news to most (unless you were born yesterday). a similar report came up about 8 years ago.

"85-90% of dollar bills have coke on it". the figures were the same back then, as they are now.


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Re: Cocaine on Money: Drug Found on 90% of U.S. Bills [Re: piracetam]
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I think its gross when people use dollar bills to snort anything. It's repulsive, money is so filthy. Get a straw! Dismantle a pen or mechanical pencil or just use your finger ffs!


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You're gonna get hurt real bad :smile:

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind

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Re: Cocaine on Money: Drug Found on 90% of U.S. Bills [Re: AsAboveSoBelow]
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but theres a better chance of getting the extra coke thats on 90% of dollar bills


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Re: Cocaine on Money: Drug Found on 90% of U.S. Bills [Re: JackofSpades]
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This story was on the cable news, this morning.

No one mentions the Big Mac residue, apple pie residue, or an overdose for every tainted dollar bill.

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Re: Cocaine on Money: Drug Found on 90% of U.S. Bills [Re: durian_2008]
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If the only evidence we have of some aparently heavy and wide-spread use of cocaine is some residue on some dollar bills, how big of a problem is it really?

We should throw another umpteen billion dollars at fighting this cocaine epidemic so we can finally rid our country of those horrible powdery dollar bills once and for all!!!!

OR, we can collectively shrug our shoulders and say, "Who the fuck cares!!"

Edited by Caladan_Shroom (08/18/09 11:33 AM)

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