Cocaine Found on 90-Percent of U.S. Bills

[Guest]

This is really old news. Why did they dig this up?

 

[RADIO_ACTIVE]

I bet there is a whole lot of METH on them as well lol

 

[SlickyFats]

Sorry this is all my fault

 

[Honis]

Another Apple App article and I'm done with this god awful site.

 

[MU_Engineer]

[citation][nom]cruiserPro[/nom]who would uses currency nowadays anyway? When was the last time you bought anything using a Benjamin?[/citation]

When was the last time anybody has even seen a $100 bill? ATMs only give out $20s and just about nobody takes anything bigger than a $20.

 

[jellico]

Just a little biology FYI, but very few germs pass from person to person via money. They simply do not live that long on a dry surface; and any form of friction (such as money riding around in your wallet), will literally rip bacteria and viruses apart. In fact, you really don't need anti-bacterial soap and hand-sanitizer at all. The soap just gets the dirt and oil off of your hands. The rubbing action during washing does the sanitizing.

 

[FSXFan]

[citation][nom]Honis[/nom]Another Apple App article and I'm done with this god awful site.[/citation]
Cool. Nobody likes a whiner.

 

[tayb]

[citation][nom]MU_Engineer[/nom]When was the last time anybody has even seen a $100 bill? ATMs only give out $20s and just about nobody takes anything bigger than a $20.[/citation]

You cannot lawfully turn down legal tender as payment unless change cannot be made. I have a $100 bill in my wallet right now and if you go to the bank and make a withdrawal you can certainly ask for $100 bills. Go try and buy your groceries at Walmart with quarters there is nothing they can do except count the quarters. Legal tender is legal tender.

 

[rooket]

I don't understand why this study really matters, I mean.. I guess it is interesting but not like u are going to get addicted to drugs off handling money, or even if you spilled pure cocaine on your hands it won't affect you at all.

 

[Trauma]

Your report on this is inaccurate. DC was not the highest rank. It was Miami, Detroit and Boston all with 100% testing positive. Instead of coping and pasting news you find perhaps you could actualy take the time to do the research?

 

[grieve]

[citation][nom]MDillenbeck[/nom]Went to the Scientific America article to find out more - $1, $5, $10, $20, and $100 bills were samples.If we are to assume an equal number of each bill, then this gives a sample size of 2.6 bills per denomination per city. N = 2.6 is no where near the needed sample size.Where were these samples taken? At banks, from store registers, out of volunteers' wallets? Why so few?My favorite response from that article's comments was by ifitzme:Wouldn't that be an interesting confound![/citation]
They got the bills from prostitutes and dealers...

It's definatly accurate!

 

[Trauma]

My favorites from today's GMTS:

--Cash and Cocaine: Research shows that 90% of paper money has trace amounts of cocaine. In Miami, Boston and Detroit, it was worse - 100% of money tested had traces of it. In the largest study of its kind ever conducted they found that In Washington, the figure was 95 percent.

Note that they say largest STUDY not the largest amounts.

Surely this was an honest mistake but we at Toms are sticklers for facts as you are well aware. Thanx for the article anyways Mr Parrish.

 

[okibrian]

[citation][nom]mcappleman[/nom]I usually lick every bill i have. It's a good way to build up immunities![/citation]
Nice one.

 

[okibrian]

At least now my dollar is worth some thing now.

 

[Raidur]

I wonder how many have oxy on them.

 

[Guest]

Search snopes.com for "cocaine" to find out why this seemingly alarming figure isn't.