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MAZE of LAWS and OPINIONS about COCA

Jan 29 2017

Whoever meets the sacred green Coca in the Andean-Amazonian region can take away just its memory, because it remains firmly enclosed in its ancestral nest … or maybe Coca is really … a prisoner?

Going over the past years several confirmations arise in favor of a positive response.

In 1912 at The Hague (Netherlands), cocaine, together with green Coca as its raw materials, was included in the Opium Convention, signed in 1913 by the Government of Peru, so giving a start to a negative campaign against Coca plant, promoted by Peruvian psychiatrists (Valdizán, 1913).

Jan 29 2017

The volume XVIII No 4, October-December 1978 of América Indígena is a monographic compilation of articles by different authors on the subject of Andean Coca, I was lucky enough to get one sample; the following scientific references are taken from the chapter A new perspective on the chewing of coca, written by Roderick E. Burchard of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada); it is confirmed that the functional model of isolated cocaine alkaloid was assumed as a functional model of Coca in its entirety and that such a model for a long time had no alternatives.

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MAZE of LAWS and OPINIONS about COCA

The SCIENCE RESCUING COCA