Coked Up: 90 Percent of U.S. Money has Traces of Cocaine
Posted on 17 August 2009 by Brian Karpf
A recent study shows that 90% of U.S. paper money contains traces of cocaine. Perhaps not surprisingly, $5, $10, $20, and $50 bills are more likely to have traces of the drug than $1 bills. Next time you tell your kid not to put their hands in their mouth after touching money, remember to add their nose to that equation.
It is possible that bills testing positive for cocaine may not have actually been used by someone snorting the drug, but may have come into contact with other such bills inside dollar counting machines at banks. The study also revealed that the levels of cocaine found on the bills is not enough to spark any health alarms. However, bank tellers who deal with large quantities of bills can inhale enough cocaine “dust” to actually test positive for the drug. That explains alot – how else could bank tellers appear so happy and stimulated in an arguably not-so-stimulating and happy line of work?
The United States had the highest (no pun intended) percentage of tainted currency, followed by Canada.
