FILTHY LUCRE

"Congratulations, America: Even as our currency continues to falter, it takes home top honors in at least one category—having the highest amounts of trace cocaine of any bills on the planet. This according to a new study by those party guys at Trends in Analytical Chemistry, which found traces of the drug on nearly every bill in circulation in every country. It bears noting that currency in Germany and Ireland showed significantly lower concentrations, presumably because their citizens prefer their countries' native liquid vices."

-JONATHAN DURBIN
Photo: Corrie Vierregger
2:44 PM, August 06, 2008

LINK TO THE INITIAL REPORT.

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