Convenzione Unica degli Stupefacenti

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 Wine Mariani, mentioned in another chapter, became the unaware precursor of one of the worldwide most successful and beloved beverages; in 1880 a southern Army Colonel, pharmaceutical chemist in Atlanta – as well as inveterate morphine addicted since he had been wounded in the civil war – named John Styth Pemberton, officially registered a Coca Wine, ideal tonic and stimulant, founding later the Pemberton Chemical Company.

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MAZE of LAWS and OPINIONS about COCA

“EVERYWHERE … COCA”, with COCA COLA