Cocaine found on nearly all euro notes

by ThiChi 10 Replies latest social current

  • ThiChi
    ThiChi

    Ahhh, this explaines it!

    Cocaine found on nearly all euro notes
    By Kate Connolly in Berlin
    (Filed: 26/06/2003)

    Almost all euro bank notes have traces of cocaine, according to a study by German scientists.

    Prof Fritz Sögel and a team from the Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research in Nuremberg studied 700 euro notes from across the euro zone between January 2002 - the month the notes were launched - and last August.

    Three per cent were found to be contaminated with an average of 0.4 microgrammes of cocaine particles, just days after the euro's launch, and this figure soared to 90 per cent in seven months.

    The most highly contaminated notes, in the first study of its kind on euro notes, originated from Spain.

    Rolled up banknotes are often used to sniff cocaine. Because the notes are made from pure cotton, cocaine crystals stick easily to them and quickly get passed on to other notes, according to experts.

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    External links
    Drugs money - Snopes
    The euro - European Central Bank

  • StinkyPantz
    StinkyPantz

    I once read a similar article about U.S. money.

  • ballistic
    ballistic

    I have heard this statement about dollars and pounds, the truth is they have some serious kit a bit like a mass spectrometer and it is so sensitive it can detect... wait for it... it can detect from London someone OPENING A BOTTLE of something in Australia within a week of it being opened - carried by the wind. (they use a really rare ether which has a certain finger print). So the real story is they could probably detect anything on a bank note, I don't need to give examples.

  • Satanus
    Satanus

    Arrest all europeans. Simple solution. Decadent bastards

    SS

  • OrbitingTheSun
    OrbitingTheSun

    I read that too, SP.

  • Abaddon
    Abaddon

    Yes? And? So? What?

    http://cocaine.org/cokebill.htm

    ... is this like the 'British Troop accused of mistreating Iraqis' thread? Where you try and get us Europeans to react to crticism, and we don't?

  • Mr. Kim
    Mr. Kim

    Drugs are everywhere, huh?

  • Hamas
    Hamas

    lol @ Mr Kim answer

    True.

  • ballistic
    ballistic

    Here we go:

  • Hamas
    Hamas

    Tennants !

    Good choice !

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