{"id":9653,"date":"2013-10-24T09:55:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T09:55:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T09:55:35","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9653","title":{"rendered":"Motherboard: Why the DEA Stopped Testing Cash for Coke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motherboard: <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/blog\/why-the-dea-stopped-testing-cash-for-coke\">Why the DEA Stopped Testing Cash for Coke<\/a> by Brian Anderson:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A trace analysis of US currency that was being carried out by the Drug Enforcement Administration&#8217;s senior forensic chemist turned up cocaine-stained $50 and $100 bills with such frequency that the agency found the forensic utility of such a trace study as being &#8220;limited at best.&#8221; In the end, the DEA had no choice but to cut the project entirely.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to FOIA documents obtained by MuckRock, which detail the five-phase analysis. The idea was to check an often-cited, if &#8220;old, long buried&#8221; 1985 DEA paper that analyzed reports of cocaine traces on US currency in circulation. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9653\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}