... or while you're counting your money after a hard night of dancing.
Just for the record, this article is about six years old:
Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, took out a large ad in last Friday's New York Times asking, "Did you know that there's a three out of four chance that the money you're carrying could be legally confiscated?" His argument is that 75 percent of American currency is contaminated with cocaine. Since a law--which the ACLU opposes--allows courts to seize "drug-related assets" for almost any reason at all, Glasser concludes that ordinary citizens are at risk of having three-quarters of their cash seized. Is he right?
Glasser is correct that paper money is commonly contaminated with cocaine. Studies published by Argonne National Laboratories, the FBI, and the Journal of Forensic Sciences place the number between 70 and 100 percent.
http://slate.msn.com/id/1002005/
I guess this means were all drug traffickers. See you all in the pokey.
...and in case you think this is some urban legend, I've already checked.
http://www.snopes.com/business/money/cocaine.asp




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