Trivia: There’s Cocaine in Almost All Dollar Bills

By Alex in Crime & Law, Daily Trivia, Money & Finance on Feb 4, 2008 at 7:01 am

Cocaine moleculeTrace amounts of cocaine are found in 4 out of every 5 dollar bills in circulation.

The average amount of cocaine found is 16 micrograms (0.000016 gram)


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  1. Lurk
    Feb 4th, 2008 at 8:10 am

    I am not surprised.

  2. webrunner
    Feb 4th, 2008 at 9:08 am

    Yep, it’s true. I’ve actually seen money tested on an ionscan drug testing machine, and to find a bill with no drug traces is very rare.

  3. NiteWhite
    Feb 4th, 2008 at 9:56 am

    That’s weird because all my friends use straws that have been cut.

  4. Kerozene
    Feb 4th, 2008 at 10:45 am

    I don’t carry cash. It’s been a problem on a vary rare occasion (when someones machine is down), but just about everywhere takes debit/credit cards anymore.
    Guess this gives me yet another reason to go plastic.

    Booo icky germ ridden, drug laced, easily stolen money!

  5. SW
    Feb 4th, 2008 at 11:12 am

    so how could you extract it?

  6. Ivan
    Feb 4th, 2008 at 1:50 pm

    What is the source of this info?

  7. kj
    Feb 4th, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    urban legend. asses. research.

  8. astrodex
    Feb 4th, 2008 at 4:02 pm

    According to snopes this is essentially true, but the presence of cocaine does not mean that 4 out of 5 bills have been used as a coke straw. It simply means that the drug is a very fine powder and easily spread around.

    http://www.snopes.com/business/money/cocaine.asp

    not an urban legend. ass. research.

  9. VonSkippy
    Feb 4th, 2008 at 6:00 pm

    So 4000-5000 dollar bills, some Pet. Ether, a evaporation dish and you got yourself a little tiny party.


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