Posted on 06/29/2015 4:52:07 PM PDT by markomalley
Pope Francis is scheduled to visit Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay in July
A Bolivian government official has claimed that Pope Francis has said he would like to chew coca leaves when he visits the country next month.
According to Reuters, Culture Minister Marko Machicao, speaking on state television and radio on Sunday, said that the Pontiff asked to be provided with coca leaves upon his arrival in Bolivia in July in order to help combat altitude sickness.
“We offered (the Pope) coca tea or something for the altitude,” said Machicao.
“He has specifically requested that he wants to chew coca, so we will be awaiting the Holy Father with the sacred coca leaf.”
The Vatican is yet to respond to the claims.
Situated at around 11,975 feet above sea level, Bolivia’s capital La Paz is one of the world’s highest capital cities and chewing coca leaves is a traditional method of alleviating the effects of extreme altitude.
Coca leaves are the key ingredient in cocaine, but the the unprocessed leaf is legal to use.
Pope Francis is scheduled to visit Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay from July 6 to 12.
…claims government official
So it may or may not be factual.
Having said that, I am relatively certain that there are other available therapies for altitude sickness...
this Pope is as messed up as the SCOTUS
“this Pope is as messed up as the SCOTUS”
Yes! He seems to be as messed up as SCROTUS!
Firmly convinced he is the anti-Pope who will try to help herald in the One World Religion. This will not be a Judeau/Christian religion. Sigh.
You can’t make this stuff up.
It does sound right, though, for the leader of the Catholic Cult. Sounds like the pope wants to “fundamentally transform” the Church.
I’m fine with him chewing leaves. Big deal.
There will still be daily pope-a-thons, I’m sure.
This guy is incredible with what he’s coming up with. Seems like every day, but may really be like a couple weeks apart.
Visions of wacky celebrity food requests like whomever it was who requests certain colors of jellybeans.
Are we even sure he is not already chewing coca eaves or even worse, especially given said me of his recent pronouncements?
First pope to end up on the cover of Rolling Stone?
Wacko, devil Pope.
Leaf chewing will give you a mild high that is usually not a good idea when you are already a bit dizzy and nauseated.
"The use of unprocessed coca leaf is legal in Bolivia and other Andean countries. A 1995 World Health Organisation report said there were “no negative health effects” from coca use in leaf form, which by weight contains only around 0.5 per cent cocaine. The findings were shelved, however, under pressure from the US."
Is Pope Francis about to do to coca leaves that Pope Clement VIII did to coffee beans...............?
I seem to remember another pope endorsing coca wine...
High times will do an article on this.
With this pope, nobody needs to.....
he is an idiot, a polyreligious marxist. Coca leaf chewing is a pagan god ritual of sorts. Anything altering the mind is of gods. God Himself freed believers from such practices.
Only a Marxist would serve no religion through pretending serving them all, as in Coexist
Remember, too, that he has only one lung.
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