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February 14, 2006
Cuckoo For Coca Puffs
Now that Hugo Chavez's pal Evo Morales is running the show in Bolivia, there are going to be changes — right down to the breakfast table:
Bolivia's Foreign Minister wants school children to reap the nutritional benefits from one of the country's most revered crops — coca — which is of course the stuff used to make cocaine. David Choquehuanca says there's more calcium in coca plants than in milk and therefore the former should be included on school breakfast menus.
Bolivia's president Evo Morales, himself a coca farmer whose presidential victory was helped in part by local coca growers, has spent the last month advocating the legal uses of coca and vowing to protect local farmers.
Posted by Van Helsing at February 14, 2006 6:29 AM
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Actually there's some sense in this. Coca leaf has about the same effect on the body as caffiene,a nd is as addictive as lettuce. Or perhaps the humble tomato... It also makes a nice cure for mountain sickness according to a bolivian I've heard from. The problem comes in extracting the active elements of the plant and refining them in to a drug, but that comes with any stimulant. Pure caffiene (again with the caffiene, you'd think I was obsessed or something) is a potent carcinogen and highly toxic when inhaled. It's also highly addictive.
Posted by: Archonix at February 14, 2006 10:09 AM
Legal uses for a plant that can also be made into illegal drugs? Horrors!
Must. Ban. Hemp. Poppies. And. Mushrooms. Too.
Posted by: Cato the Elder at February 15, 2006 5:21 PM
Try snorting ground up No Doz or Vivarin.
Or better yet, nicotine sulfate.
The drug war is a TOTAL SHAM!
Posted by: Douglas Willinger at March 17, 2006 3:58 PM
