U.S. paper money contains higher trace levels of cocaine than any other world currency.Does it pass the Snopes test?!
Chemists found that the average U.S. bill has between 2.9 and 28.8 micrograms of cocaine on its surface. Meanwhile, the study showed that Spanish money has the highest trace amounts among European nations.
This doesn't mean the average bill was handled by a cocaine user. Traces of the drug can spread easily from bill to bill in devices like ATMs and bank counting machines. However, the numbers do suggest that Americans love cocaine.
So, if you're scoring at home, fill in the U.S. for both the fattest and the most coked up nation on Earth. Given coke's appetite-suppressing qualities, it sounds as though we're just not getting enough cocaine to the right people.
Not sure, but it explains some of my friends' billfolds. (Shout-out to LDL!)
1 comment:
This one is true... and its a real problem. The issue is that the police often times use trace detectors as evidence against people that somehow their money is drug money during civil asset forfeiture proceedings, and at other times. The problem is that because money circulates between so many people, and the traces are rather long lasting, the fact that coke may be on your money means absolutely nothing... and yet it continues to be used as evidence of wrong doing.
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