Up To 90 Percent of US Money Has Traces of Cocaine

mmmscience writes "Scientists have found that up to 90% of US paper money has some cocaine contamination, up from the 67% mark measured two years ago. Looking at bills from 17 cities, it's no surprise that the city with the highest level was Washington DC, where up to 95% of bills gathered there tested positive. From a global standpoint, both Canada and Brazil tested rather high (85% and 80%, respectively), but China and Japan were well behind the curve at 20% and 12%. The researchers hope that studies such as these will be of help to law enforcement agencies that are attempting to understand the growth and flow of drug use in communities."

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Obama collecting email addresses?

[Anonymous Coward]

So... out of curiosity... is Slashdot, that stalwart protector and alerter of civil rights violations when it comes to technology and government illicitly collecting your data, going to do an article on Obama's email address collection that it's now suddenly reversed course on after such hue and outcry?

strange

[ArsonSmith]

You'd think with Bush out of office that DC would test lower than it did 2 years ago.