Has this one cycled again? It's amusing, but I suspect you'd find that our money is similarly tainted by wheat flour.
I think the number I once saw was that one bill that had actually be in contact with cocaine and then entered the general money and went through a bank bill counter would then taint more than a thousand other bills. And that the cocaine contamination on these bills is measured in the millionths of a gram.
I'm guessing all of that is caveated in the actual paper, but when it hits newspapers it is always with the implication that pretty much all of our paper money has at some point had one end stuck up somebody's nose.
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