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90 Percent of US Bills Contain Traces of Cocaine.
Posted by:
Lurker.
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Date: August 17, 2009 05:52PM
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/14/cocaine.traces.money/index.html
In the course of its average 20 months in circulation, U.S. currency gets whisked into ATMs, clutched, touched and traded perhaps thousands of times at coffee shops, convenience stores and newsstands. And every touch to every bill brings specks of dirt, food, germs or even drug residue.
Research presented this weekend reinforced previous findings that 90 percent of paper money circulating in U.S. cities contains traces of cocaine.
I find this to be an extreme high number, 90 percent??? I would pick traces of pot over cocaine.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/17/2009 05:52PM by Lurker..
In the course of its average 20 months in circulation, U.S. currency gets whisked into ATMs, clutched, touched and traded perhaps thousands of times at coffee shops, convenience stores and newsstands. And every touch to every bill brings specks of dirt, food, germs or even drug residue.
Research presented this weekend reinforced previous findings that 90 percent of paper money circulating in U.S. cities contains traces of cocaine.
I find this to be an extreme high number, 90 percent??? I would pick traces of pot over cocaine.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/17/2009 05:52PM by Lurker..
Re: 90 Percent of US Bills Contain Traces of Cocaine.
Posted by:
Harry Tuttle
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Date: August 17, 2009 05:57PM
You don't use paper money to snort pot though...
Re: 90 Percent of US Bills Contain Traces of Cocaine.
Posted by:
Mofo
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Date: August 17, 2009 06:01PM
I saw this and thought of posting.
Clearly, the drug war is working with flying colours.
The irony of flaunting something un taxed on the very thing that would be used to tax it...
Clearly, the drug war is working with flying colours.
The irony of flaunting something un taxed on the very thing that would be used to tax it...
Re: 90 Percent of US Bills Contain Traces of Cocaine.
Posted by:
Lurker.
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Date: August 17, 2009 06:23PM
90 percent and DC has the largest number of the bills.
Re: 90 Percent of US Bills Contain Traces of Cocaine.
Posted by:
MrMephisto
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Date: August 17, 2009 06:39PM
Here's a rational explanation:
http://www.snopes.com/business/money/cocaine.asp
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13 4826 0948 82695 25847. Yes.
http://www.snopes.com/business/money/cocaine.asp
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13 4826 0948 82695 25847. Yes.
Re: 90 Percent of US Bills Contain Traces of Cocaine.
Posted by:
trogdor!
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Date: August 17, 2009 11:35PM
I'm betting that the real answer lies somewhere in the the super-secret recipe the Bureau of Engraving and Printing uses for either the ink or the paper money is printed with. Somewhere in there lurks some sort of coca derivative that's triggering the false positive.
But they wont' say it because they don't want to give away their secret recipe
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/17/2009 11:36PM by trogdor!.
But they wont' say it because they don't want to give away their secret recipe
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/17/2009 11:36PM by trogdor!.
Re: 90 Percent of US Bills Contain Traces of Cocaine.
Posted by:
Thurston Moore
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Date: August 18, 2009 12:02AM
Lurker. Wrote:
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> http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/14/cocaine.trace
> s.money/index.html
>
I saw a teaser for the Channel 4 5pm news that mentioned this. Why is this suddenly, today, being reported across the entire media spectrum? I remember hearing about this in the 80's, as well.
> In the course of its average 20 months in
> circulation, U.S. currency gets whisked into ATMs,
> clutched, touched and traded perhaps thousands of
> times at coffee shops, convenience stores and
> newsstands. And every touch to every bill brings
> specks of dirt, food, germs or even drug residue.
>
> Research presented this weekend reinforced
> previous findings that 90 percent of paper money
> circulating in U.S. cities contains traces of
> cocaine.
>
So this really is old news. Why are they bringing it up again?
>
> I find this to be an extreme high number, 90
> percent??? I would pick traces of pot over
> cocaine.
Anytime someone rolls a joint with a twenty dollar bill, they don't leave a trace of the twenty dollar bill.
BTW, there will soon be reports on the news, assuming there's an agenda behind this "cocaine on twenties" repeat, about how researchers test river water in order to gauge the amount of cocaine use in a given city, since they can detect higher and lower levels of cocaine in the rivers. (They can also do this for birth control pills, and other medications. Yeah, you're drinking other people's medications everytime you drink muni water.)
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> http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/14/cocaine.trace
> s.money/index.html
>
I saw a teaser for the Channel 4 5pm news that mentioned this. Why is this suddenly, today, being reported across the entire media spectrum? I remember hearing about this in the 80's, as well.
> In the course of its average 20 months in
> circulation, U.S. currency gets whisked into ATMs,
> clutched, touched and traded perhaps thousands of
> times at coffee shops, convenience stores and
> newsstands. And every touch to every bill brings
> specks of dirt, food, germs or even drug residue.
>
> Research presented this weekend reinforced
> previous findings that 90 percent of paper money
> circulating in U.S. cities contains traces of
> cocaine.
>
So this really is old news. Why are they bringing it up again?
>
> I find this to be an extreme high number, 90
> percent??? I would pick traces of pot over
> cocaine.
Anytime someone rolls a joint with a twenty dollar bill, they don't leave a trace of the twenty dollar bill.
BTW, there will soon be reports on the news, assuming there's an agenda behind this "cocaine on twenties" repeat, about how researchers test river water in order to gauge the amount of cocaine use in a given city, since they can detect higher and lower levels of cocaine in the rivers. (They can also do this for birth control pills, and other medications. Yeah, you're drinking other people's medications everytime you drink muni water.)
Re: 90 Percent of US Bills Contain Traces of Cocaine.
Posted by:
bloody blisters
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Date: August 18, 2009 12:11AM
i didnt think the snorters snorted with anything lower than a 50. less circulated less germs no? i believe there are drugs in the water. no water leaves our atmosphere it all gets recirculated. that being the case we are also drinking dinosaur pee, it never left it just recirculated into the the atmosphere and into our lakes rivers and oceans.
Re: 90 Percent of US Bills Contain Traces of Cocaine.
Posted by:
ITRADE
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Date: August 18, 2009 09:07AM
The $2.00 and the $50.00 are the least circulated of standard US paper currency, although that may be changing.
There is a concerted effort afoot to convert all $1.00 currency to the gold coin variety and to introduce on an increased basis the $2.00.
Funny when $1.00 coins are now pocket change. Not as funny as when you travel to England and you toss around 1 UKP coins like pocket change...
There is a concerted effort afoot to convert all $1.00 currency to the gold coin variety and to introduce on an increased basis the $2.00.
Funny when $1.00 coins are now pocket change. Not as funny as when you travel to England and you toss around 1 UKP coins like pocket change...
Re: 90 Percent of US Bills Contain Traces of Cocaine.
Posted by:
Thurston Moore
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Date: August 18, 2009 09:34PM
bloody blisters Wrote:
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> i didnt think the snorters snorted with anything
> lower than a 50. less circulated less germs no? i
> believe there are drugs in the water. no water
> leaves our atmosphere it all gets recirculated.
> that being the case we are also drinking dinosaur
> pee, it never left it just recirculated into the
> the atmosphere and into our lakes rivers and
> oceans.
Since twenties are easy to get crisp and brand new from an ATM, the twenty is the cocaine users's first choice. Of course, the hard core people have little bump kits and stainless steel or sterling silver "straws".
As for the dinosaur pee, that has been filtered through rocks and evaporation hundreds of billions of times. As far as drugs being consumed right now, they get pissed out, flushed into the river and the next muni water system downriver sucks it up and filters off the sediment, adds some chlorine and fluoride, and sells it to people to drink.
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> i didnt think the snorters snorted with anything
> lower than a 50. less circulated less germs no? i
> believe there are drugs in the water. no water
> leaves our atmosphere it all gets recirculated.
> that being the case we are also drinking dinosaur
> pee, it never left it just recirculated into the
> the atmosphere and into our lakes rivers and
> oceans.
Since twenties are easy to get crisp and brand new from an ATM, the twenty is the cocaine users's first choice. Of course, the hard core people have little bump kits and stainless steel or sterling silver "straws".
As for the dinosaur pee, that has been filtered through rocks and evaporation hundreds of billions of times. As far as drugs being consumed right now, they get pissed out, flushed into the river and the next muni water system downriver sucks it up and filters off the sediment, adds some chlorine and fluoride, and sells it to people to drink.