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Non Numismatic Discussion => Chin Wag => Topic started by: ausjack on July 30, 2013, 11:41:48 AM

Title: drugs on coins
Post by: ausjack on July 30, 2013, 11:41:48 AM
well I was thinking about how they say there's drugs all over our money so I was wondering how one would go about getting said dope off said coins..just a thought and no I'm not licking they fulvio :laugh2:
Title: RE: drugs on coins
Post by: trout on July 30, 2013, 11:46:53 AM
Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='23324' dateline='1375150308'well I was thinking about how they say there's drugs all over our money so I was wondering how one would go about getting said dope off said coins..just a thought and no I'm not licking they fulvio :laugh2:

I would imagine that there could be all sorts of "nasties" on coins But I doubt that there would be traces of drugs on them :ok:
Title: RE: drugs on coins
Post by: accumulator on July 30, 2013, 11:49:35 AM
Maybe notes from rolling them up to snort speed,cocaine etc etc LOL
Title: RE: drugs on coins
Post by: stevo1962 on July 30, 2013, 11:52:14 AM
Quote from: 'accumulator' pid='23329' dateline='1375150775'Maybe notes from rolling them up to snort speed,cocaine etc etc LOL

You might be able to resnort the snorter
Title: RE: drugs on coins
Post by: ausjack on July 30, 2013, 12:05:31 PM
you lot are terrible..love it :laugh2:
Title: RE: drugs on coins
Post by: enworb on July 30, 2013, 02:12:09 PM
I think its US money that has been tested and it found that 90% or so had traces of cocaine.
Title: RE: drugs on coins
Post by: purplepennyhunter on July 30, 2013, 02:44:52 PM
Oh yeah. (http://www.livescience.com/2740-highest-traces-cocaine-bills.html)
Title: RE: drugs on coins
Post by: Splock on July 30, 2013, 05:38:22 PM
I thought you were talking about this "scratch, sniff, get the munchies" coin:

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kLRf-QFW8ok/TPMlpHcJqpI/AAAAAAAAA2M/9YlZj4dmvyM/s1600/Benin_2010_Marijuana_Thumb.jpg)
Title: RE: drugs on coins
Post by: ausjack on July 30, 2013, 06:53:03 PM
I want one :laugh2: what a pearla, thanks mate :good:
Title: RE: drugs on coins
Post by: Sapyx on July 30, 2013, 07:27:40 PM
Here's the Snopes article (http://www.snopes.com/business/money/cocaine.asp) confirming the myth that a large percentage of American paper money bears traces of cocaine. However, several things ought to be pointed out.

The myth is about American paper money. I suspect the drugs don't stick so well to our polymer notes and if they do, the stuff just washes right off. Coins are likewise immune from drug adherence.

Most positive-testing notes are contaminated with "second-hand drugs" rather than having been directly used in illicit drug use - in other words, a single "dirty" note fed into a note counter-sorter can contaminate every other note fed into the machine.

Finally, the amounts detectable are very, very small. The veracity of this myth has more to do with our modern technological ability to detect the faintest traces of these substances, rather than the pervasiveness of drug use in our modern culture.
Title: RE: drugs on coins
Post by: trout on July 30, 2013, 08:47:32 PM
Quote from: 'Sapyx' pid='23385' dateline='1375178260'Here's the Snopes article (http://www.snopes.com/business/money/cocaine.asp) confirming the myth that a large percentage of American paper money bears traces of cocaine. However, several things ought to be pointed out.

The myth is about American paper money. I suspect the drugs don't stick so well to our polymer notes and if they do, the stuff just washes right off. Coins are likewise immune from drug adherence.

Most positive-testing notes are contaminated with "second-hand drugs" rather than having been directly used in illicit drug use - in other words, a single "dirty" note fed into a note counter-sorter can contaminate every other note fed into the machine.

Finally, the amounts detectable are very, very small. The veracity of this myth has more to do with our modern technological ability to detect the faintest traces of these substances, rather than the pervasiveness of drug use in our modern culture.

Bugger I was just going to get my Mate that lives in Nimben to send me a heap of change and flog em off as "drug coins" :dash1::laugh2:
Title: RE: drugs on coins
Post by: ausjack on July 30, 2013, 09:23:15 PM
I'm not going there..or to nimbin..again, too many hippies :laugh2:
Title: RE: drugs on coins
Post by: Unicorn on July 30, 2013, 10:21:48 PM
Every time I read this subject line - drugs on coins, Duran Duran's - Girls on Film verse goes through my head. :music:
Title: RE: drugs on coins
Post by: ausjack on July 31, 2013, 07:35:13 AM
I think..I think I love you uni :winkextra: :laugh2:

why is it my music is lame but they all remix all my old songs these days..and they don't do as good of a job as the originals..here's a flash back for those that like to trip :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCjMZMxNr-0 sorry it's only a short version uni :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3W6yf6c-FA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOg5VxrRTi0
and for something different
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyl5DlrsU90
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9mwELXPGbA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs