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To: mugs99

The original article spells it "coca" and so it is here, copied as it was published originally.

The coca plant is not the same plant that produces chocolate. The coca plant is used to produce cocaine...the cocoa plant produces chocolate.

Morales is a coca farmer. Which means he produces cocaine. He is undoubtedly associated with a drug cartel or even many; Hugo Chavez in Venezuela is known to be.


29 posted on 01/24/2006 10:07:56 PM PST by MillerCreek
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To: MillerCreek
The coca plant is not the same plant that produces chocolate.

Yes it is. Chocolate is the powdered bean from the coca plant. Cocaine is extracted from the leaf of the plant.
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37 posted on 01/25/2006 10:10:12 AM PST by mugs99 (Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.)
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To: MillerCreek
Morales is a coca farmer. Which means he produces cocaine

Um... no. Coca in its natural state is a non-narcotic plant with many legitimate uses. In Bolivia something like 80% of the population chews coca, drinks coca tea, and uses medicinal balms made from coca -- among other things. Other than rotting teeth, it's quite healthy in its natural state.

Cocaine is made by heavily processing coca to separate out a single alkaloid. You need hundreds (possibly thousands) of leaves to get one line of cocaine.

Your statement is like saying that growing apples equals producing cyanide, just because apple cores contain trace amounts of cyanide.

Morales grows coca. There is no allegation (much less evidence) that he has ever produced cocaine.

54 posted on 01/26/2006 10:52:28 PM PST by ChicagoHebrew (Hell exists, it is real. It's a quiet green meadow populated entirely by Arab goat herders.)
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