Monetary Density

"What," I hear you ask, "is monetary density?" Well, have you ever heard someone say that something is "worth its weight in gold"? As it turns out, a better turn of phrase would be "Worth its weight in LSD". Among some other interesting discoveries, the folks over at Evil Mad Scientist Labs (I'm filling out my application as we speak) have measured the weights of various items and compared it to its cost. For instance (unsurprisingly), dollar bills are the most efficient form of currency, as its weight-to-cost ratio is much higher than say, quarters. A pound of quarters is only about twenty dollars, where a pound of dollar bills is almost four hundred and fifty bucks. On the other hand, a pound of $100 bills is worth almost 50,000 dollars. It's a nice little graph, as bill currencies are divided up in neat little increments.

See? For some other neat comparisons, consider that a pound of human blood is approximately as monetarily valued as a pound of silver. Weird. Up at the far end of the spectrum, marijuana has a similar monetary density as industrial diamonds; anything from the International Space Station is worth at least $10,000; and LSD will net you about fifty-five million dollars a pound. I invite you all to look up how little it costs to manufacture the stuff, then consider the profound economical ramifications of that.

P.S.: Interesting side note: LSD was originally derived from ergot, a mold that grows on grains like rye and such. There is a school of thought that supposes that a certain points in history, bread was made from contaminated wheat, causing hallucinations and wild accusations and drowning of young women and boring plays written by Arthur Miller. And witches. Salem. I'm talking about the Salem Witch Trials. They were all trippin'.