Description of coca, its habitat, medicinal uses, and other useful tips. ... The famous coca plant is a shrub like tree that can grow to about six feet in length in cultivated varieties, with wild trees growing to eighteen feet tall. The coca possesses characteristic reddish brown bark coloration.
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“In answering questions about the shrub, the aged Indians invariably told the same story.From what they had heard, the Indians recalled, before coca was a shrub it was a beautiful woman.Discovered to be an adultress, she was executed, cut in half, and buried as a seed would be planted.From part of her severed body,
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Cocaine is a powerful drug that stimulates the body's central nervous system. Prepared from the leaves of the coca shrub that grows in South America, it increases the user's energy and alertness, reduces appetite and the need for sleep, and heightens feelings of pleasure.
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Meanwhile, high in the Andes Mountains, where the coca shrub has been cultivated since time immemorial, natives beyond the reach of the Spanish occupation continued to chew coca leaves, as no doubt they had chewed them before the days of the Incas, and as they continue to chew them today.
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Economic and Social Transformations connected with the International Drug Problem ... Source: OGD, Atlas mondial des drogues, 1996, PUF. ... The boundaries on maps published in the magazine do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by UNESCO or the United Nations.
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Common name: Carolina snailseed ... Synonym Epibaterium carolinum ... Climbing woody vine. Stems thin, usually glabrous. Leaves broadly ovate, entire or shallowly 3-lobed, cordate to rounded at the base, acute or obtuse at the apex, 2.5-10 cm (1-4 in) long and almost as wide, usually glabrous above and pubescent below.
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But back when Coke got started, the company led the public to believe that the coca shrub--the source of cocaine--provided one of the ingredients, giving consumers that extra lift that we now associate with mirrors, tiny spoons, and rolled-up hundred-dollar bills.
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This paper explains that cocaine is an alkaloid drug processed from the leaves of the coca shrub, which creates a feeling of well-being, self-confiden ... Book Abstract by: AcaDemon ... More summaries by AcaDemon...
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Cocaine is a naturally occurring alkaloid usually extracted from the leaves of the coca shrub and is a powerfully addictive stimulant drug. ... Cocaine is a naturally occurring alkaloid usually extracted from the leaves of the coca shrub and is powerfully addictive stimulant drug. The drug is a strong central nervous...
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Why? Why Coke? Why do people lose their cars, homes, jobs, families, and even their health, over this drug? Why are there more than 600,000 Americans addicted to this devil’s candy? ... Why is there such an attraction to this drug that is found in the South American Erythroxylon coca shrub...
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