90 percent of U.S. bills carry traces of cocaine - CNN.com
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
I guess kinda shows how well cold hard cash gets around
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- 100 percent of bills from a few large urban areas tested positive for cocaine
- Amount of cocaine on money is not enough to cause health risks
- Money can be contaminated by being put in counting machines with tainted bills
The term "dirty money" is for real.
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.
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I guess kinda shows how well cold hard cash gets around
