MUCH OF THE MONEY THAT CIRCULATES FREELY IS CONTAMINATED WITH TRACES OF DRUGS.
When paper money was invented no one imagined the alternative uses it might have in addition to buying goods or paying for services.
At the University of Dublin they discovered that most of the banknotes circulating in the Irish capital contain significant traces of cocaine. The sample of 45 notes of different denominations, 5, 10, 20, 50 euros, were 100% positive, and three of them also had traces of heroin.
The cotton fibres from which the euros are made facilitate the absorption of the substance, which made the analysis easier.
Contamination could occur by various means, from the common practice of sniffing cocaine by means of a rolled banknote, through contact in a drug-trafficking transaction or during ordinary financial operations, or at the ATM itself by joining other contaminated banknotes.
Of the sample, the largest ever carried out in Ireland, 62% had levels of 2 nanograms per note, and 5% up to 100 times this amount, indicating that they had had direct contact with the enervant.
Although these results are not quantitative, they can give an idea of the level of consumption of this drug in society.
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