A few weeks ago I went out to lunch with a few co-workers, and two of us decided to pay with cash and the other two were using credit cards. One of the girls who was paying cash, Liz, found some odd "dirt" on her money. She thought maybe it was ketchup or makeup. My other co-worker, Rony, told her that it was probably blood because the money had at one point been used in a drug transaction. Liz was entirely grossed out, and then we started hypothesizing about the amount of drugs on money (and diseases, etc). This article just came out yesterday and it talks about how the US Dollar has the highest traces of cocaine, and also about the chance to have disease-causing bacteria. It was pretty interesting and definitely makes me more hesitant to carry cash!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080805/sc_livescience/highesttracesofcocainefoundonusbills
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