Who ever said that drugs and money don't mix
DRUGGED MONEY
By Janet Raloff
Web edition
Sunday, August 16th, 2009
For more than a decade, chemists have been pulling tiny grains of cocaine out of a large proportion of sampled U.S. greenbacks. My first story on the topic ran nearly a dozen years ago. The most recent update comes from the American Chemical Society “fall” national meeting, today, here in Washington, D.C. Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth have just reported finding traces of cocaine in 95 percent of the banknotes collected from our nation’s capital. Ouch!
Bills that proved most likely to carry the drug: $5 to $50 denominations.