Washington - Everyone in America is handling cocaine - but in most cases they don't know it, a report revealed yesterday. The drug is now so widespread that is has contaminated almost every banknote in the country, according to FBI forensic chemists in Washington DC.
The scientists blame automatic counting machines in banks for spreading the drug from dollar to dollar. Although the amount of cocaine on each note is small, lawyers defending pushers and dealers may now be able to argue that the discovery of cocaine on their clients' cash proves nothing.