Here we go, the war on cash begins...
begins? where have you been? the big push to debit cards and gradually making procurement of any reasonable quantity of cash (especially given inflation these days) almost impossible has been going on for ages.
90 percent of U.S. bills carry traces of cocaine (2009)
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#12It's nice to see they recorded the denomination of each bill. Too bad the article didn't go into further detail in its summarization.
The abstract[0] says $1 and $100 denominations were less likely to test positive. The latter is curious. Perhaps it's because lower denominations are more likely to be used by street dealers, or that $20 bills make up the majority of triple-digit ATM transactions.
It's worth noting that currency has a lot more than just trace amounts of cocaine on it.[1] Trace amounts of any common narcotic can create problems if probable cause with fur happens to get a whiff of your cash.
>There is cocaine dust around the machines. These bank tellers breathe in cocaine.
Here I thought handling large amounts of cash was just intrinsically exhilarating.
[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18646272
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_currency#In_the...
Re: 90 percent of U.S. bills carry traces of cocaine (2009)
#13I wonder what they would find if they tested for fecal matter instead, for example...
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#14But how can I extract and collect it for personal use?
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#15But how can I extract and collect it for personal use?
wash a stack of bills and drink the water?
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#17Great article. This is why I only carry $1 bills.
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#18I hate to sound like a broken record, but "traces" can mean amazingly small amounts these days due to testing sensitivity. Remember this when you read "traces of [insert toxic metal] were found in drinking water!!".
I don't know what the testing limits for cocaine are, but parts per billion wouldn't surprise me. For some metals, it can be parts per trillion. Ppt would he equivalent to one microgram in a cubic meter (one metric ton) of water.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps this is how they find large amounts of hidden cash, with the same drug dog?
Dogs can be trained to the scent of many items, some are trained to specifically smell for cash. The TSA black labs are designed to sniff out explosives and not drugs. Some dogs are even being trained to sniff out electronics. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-197623/Dogs-help-sni...
>Dogs can be trained to the scent of many items
I heard there's been some breakthrough in reading digital data through scents:
Re: 90 percent of U.S. bills carry traces of cocaine (2009)
#20Here we go, the war on cash begins...
begins? where have you been? the big push to debit cards and gradually making procurement of any reasonable quantity of cash (especially given inflation these days) almost impossible has been going on for ages.
I don't find it all that hard to procure cash.