Why do people use banknotes to snort drugs? Or is it just in films? You'd think a serious drug user would have their own porcelain tube, monogrammed in a felt lined box. Or perhaps that would be a bit of a giveaway if they got 'busted' by the 'feds'.
I keep forgetting the bloody punctuation. That's a full stop, badly Photoshopped in.
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Not that I'd really know, but I think banknotes are just convenient. You can always withdraw or borrow one. Apparently over 90% of all banknotes now contain traces of cocaine...
Snorting cocaine through a banknote is a Hollywood thing. I'm sure it does go on, but it was used deliberately by Hollywood to show the wealth and debauch of cocaine-using characters (as opposed to the squalor of heroin addicts, say). Just snorting it straight up the nose - which is more common, I understand - looked too rough and ready for characters they were trying to depict as fabulously glamorous, wealthy and indulgent.
As Ariane says, most notes do indeed show traces of cocaine (as much as 99.2% of all notes in London; a slightly lower proportion of notes elsewhere), which reinforced the impression of the banknote as de rigeur, but most are just contaminated by contact with other contaminated notes, of course - and they're all contaminated with a lot of other substances (many of them bodily) besides, of course.
Did you put the salt shaker in the picture to protect your reputation, Graham? Interesting place to keep your charlie.
I'm far from convinced by those 'statistics' - sounds like an urban myth if ever there was one. Why would anyone measure such a thing? Far easier to make it up.
The salt shaker was a joke. One of those humourless ones I like to make.
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