the majority of the paper money
in the US has traces of cocaine.
During the depths of the financial crisis, when the need for cash
was greatest, the banks turned to laundering drug money.
Used to be, if you wanted to lick your way to a high, you had to find a psycho-active toad.
Well, this is the old fashioned way to get more coke for your buck, with a strawbuck.
Keep some for later, deep in the money.
However, the main way that cash turns whiter than white is for it to be deposited in a bank.
Either bankers or their drug buddies will be shuffling the money back and forth.
IshitUnot: from Ask
Psychoactive toad is a name used for toads from which psychoactive substances from the family of bufotoxins can be derived. The skin and poison of Bufo alvarius (Colorado River toad or Sonoran Desert toad) contain 5-MeO-DMT and bufotenin. Other species contain only bufotenin. 5-MeO-DMT and bufotenin both belong to the family of hallucinogenic tryptamines. Due to these substances the skin or poison of the toads may produce psychoactive effects when ingested.
2 Observer
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A soldier guards marijuana that is being incinerated in Tijuana, Mexico. Photograph: Guillermo Arias/AP
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