Du haschich sur les billets de banque en Algérie?

[Jack_Sparrow]

les 10% restants c'est surrement des résidus de heroine qu'il portent

c'est drole ça a diminué... en 2002 une etude similaire a revelé que c'etait le cas pour 99,9% des billets... (en clair il n'y avait que les billets fraichement imprimés qui n'etait pas positif lors du test)

[RoboCop]

90% des billets de banque américains ont des traces de cocaïne.

Fluctuat en ligne.

Après les particules de coke trouvées dans l'air de Rome, Barcelone et Madrid, il semblerait donc que nos porte-monnaie soient eux aussi contaminés par la poudre blanche.


Menée par l'université du Massachusetts à Dartmouth, l'étude démontre que 85 à 95 % des dollars en circulation aux États-Unis porteraient des résidus de cocaïne (phénomène notamment dû au fait que les consommateurs utilisent des billets roulés pour sniffer). Un chiffre en nette augmentation depuis la précédente étude réalisée en 2007 (67 %).
« À ma surprise, nous trouvons de plus en plus de cocaïne sur les billets de banques », s'étonne l'auteur de l'étude, Yuegang Zuo. « Je ne sais pas d'où vient cette augmentation, mais ce pourrait être lié à la crise économique, les gens stressés se tournant vers la cocaïne. »
Des 30 villes testées dans le monde, Whashington décroche le pompon avec pas moins de 95 % de billets contaminés. QG des mormons, Salt Lake City (Utah) termine elle à la dernière place du classement américain.

[GLP]

Bonjour ,
C'est dire que 90 % du liquide passe par le réseau de drogue. des trafiquants jusqu'au consommateur ... un petit aperçut indirecte de la partie caché de l'iceberg!

[momo.05]

faut les blanchir............les billets!

[Jack_Sparrow]

Peut-on conclure que les billets de banque circulant en Algérie contiennent des traces de haschich?!

Ce qui est sur c'est que tous les billets de banque circulant en Algérie contiennent de la chique (Chemma)

Moralité : les billets de banque (comme la monnaie) sont vraiment sales, d'où l'importance de toujours se laver les mains avant de manger!

A l'eau de javel si c'est possible

[nassim]

Une étude publiée avant hier aux Etats-Unis par la société chimique américaine (American Chemical Society) indique que 90% des billets de banque circulant aux Etats-Unis contiennent des traces de cocaine!

Peut-on conclure que les billets de banque circulant en Algérie contiennent des traces de haschich?!

Moralité : les billets de banque (comme la monnaie) sont vraiment sales, d'où l'importance de toujours se laver les mains avant de manger!

New study: Up to 90 percent of U.S. paper money contains traces of cocaine
You probably have cocaine in your wallet, purse, or pocket. Sound unlikely or outrageous? Think again! In what researchers describe as the largest, most comprehensive analysis to date of cocaine contamination in banknotes, scientists are reporting that cocaine is present in up to 90 percent of paper money in the United States, particularly in large cities such as Baltimore, Boston, and Detroit. The scientists found traces of cocaine in 95 percent of the banknotes analyzed from Washington, D.C., alone.

Presented here today at the 238th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, the new study suggests that cocaine abuse is still widespread and may be on the rise in some areas. It could help raise public awareness about cocaine use and lead to greater emphasis on curbing its abuse, the researchers say.

The scientists tested banknotes from more than 30 cities in five countries, including the U.S., Canada, Brazil, China, and Japan, and found “alarming” evidence of cocaine use in many areas. The U.S. and Canada had the highest levels, with an average contamination rate of between 85 and 90 percent, while China and Japan had the lowest, between 12 and 20 percent contamination. The study is the first report about cocaine contamination in Chinese and Japanese currencies, they say.

“To my surprise, we’re finding more and more cocaine in banknotes,” said study leader Yuegang Zuo, Ph.D., of the University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth.

Zuo says that the high percentage of contaminated U.S. currency observed in the current study represents nearly a 20 percent jump in comparison to a similar study he conducted two years ago. That earlier study indicated that 67 percent of bills in the U.S. contained traces of cocaine.

“I’m not sure why we’ve seen this apparent increase, but it could be related to the economic downturn, with stressed people turning to cocaine,” Zuo says. Such studies are useful, he noted, because the data can help law enforcement agencies and forensic specialists identify patterns of drug use in a community.

Scientists have known for years that paper money can become contaminated with cocaine during drug deals and directly through drug use such as snorting cocaine through rolled bills. Contamination can spread to banknotes not involved in the illicit drug culture because bills are processed in banks’ currency-counting machines.

Previous studies on cocaine in banknotes, however, had several drawbacks. They often were based on sampling only a small number of banknotes, for instance. Some tests destroyed the currency.

In the new study, Zuo and colleagues describe use of a modified form of a standard laboratory instrument termed a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer. It allows a faster, simpler and more accurate measurement of cocaine contamination than other methods, without destroying the currency. The researchers used the method to analyze banknotes of several different denominations from the five countries surveyed.

The U.S. had the highest levels. The scientists analyzed a total of 234 banknotes from the U.S. and found that up to 90 percent of the banknotes contain traces of cocaine. Amounts ranged from .006 micrograms (several thousands of times smaller than a single grain of sand) to over 1,240 micrograms of cocaine per banknote (about 50 grains of sand). For comparison: A grain of sand weighs approximately 23 micrograms; there are one million micrograms in a gram and 28 grams in an ounce.

The scientists collected U.S. banknotes from 17 U.S. cities and found that larger cities like Baltimore, Boston, and Detroit had among the highest average cocaine levels. Washington, D.C., ranked above the average, with 95 percent of the banknotes sampled contaminated with the drug. The lowest average cocaine levels in U.S. currency appeared in bills collected from Salt Lake City.

The researchers studied 27 banknotes from Canada and found that 85 percent were contaminated with cocaine, with amounts ranging from 2.4 micrograms to over 2,530 micrograms of coke per banknote. The researchers analyzed 10 banknotes from Brazil and found that 80 percent were contaminated with cocaine, still high but lower than the U.S. and Canada.

China and Japan had the lowest levels. The researchers analyzed 112 banknotes from China and found that about 20 percent were contaminated with cocaine. Of the 16 banknotes analyzed from Japan, only about 12 percent were contaminated with cocaine, the researchers say.

Despite the high percentage of cocaine-contaminated banknotes, Zuo points out that the amount of cocaine found on most notes was so small that consumers should not have any health or legal concerns about handling paper money.

“For the most part, you can’t get high by sniffing a regular banknote, unless it was used directly in drug uptake or during a drug exchange,” Zuo said. “It also won’t affect your health and is unlikely interfere with blood and urine tests used for drug detection.” This study was partly funded by the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.

source : American Chemical Society