I vaguely recall this happening as a joke in some form of media but all I’m getting are statistics about currency being contaminated with cocaine when searching for it online.


Edit: My dad wants to buy scuba equipment but doesn’t know where to buy it or what size he is for a lot of it so I was going to write “For scuba equipment not for drugs” on one of the bills as a joke for his Christmas present.

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    Not sure where it’s from but I’ve received a bill like that from someone I really cared about a long time ago when I had a bit of a serious drinking problem. I was also homeless at the time.

    The $20 bill said, “Not for alcohol,” on it. And the look in their eyes pleaded, “please.”

    When I was at the liquor store that evening and I went to pay I didn’t have enough unless I spent that $20. I picked something different and used that money for food that night.

    I’d like to say that was the first step in me getting sober but it was a few years later when I finally quit drinking.

    6 years sober now.

    I really wish I could remember their face.

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    You may be thinking of Scarface. When Tony Montana exchanges dollars for pesos 🤷‍♂️

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    Searching online points to the movie Drillbit Taylor maybe being where this came from, but I have not seen it to confirm.

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      I think that might be it! I definitely saw that movie a few years ago.

      Nice detective work

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    Could be related to the Aussie movie Two Hands, where some drug money has a picture of a gun drawn on it? Only one I can think of right now where money has somat written on it.

    That and the tooth fairy sticker on the fiver in that Bluey episode, I guess.