Have you ever touched drugs? It is very unlikely. According to analyzes carried out by the specialized laboratory of the national gendarmerie (PJGN) of Pontoise (Val-d’Oise), relayed by The worlddrug residues are found on almost all banknotes in circulation in France.
90% of tickets
If cash regularly passes through your hands, you have most likely already touched small portions of drugs. “Statistically, there is always a trace”, specifies Colonel Sandrine Sabini, head of the toxicology department of the gendarmerie, on a daily basis.
With, in the first line, cocaine. But other drugs are also part of the cocktail that circulates through banknotes such as heroin, amphetamines, methamphetamines, ecstasy and THC. In total, 90% of the banknotes are impregnated with more or less significant traces of drugs.