The Sacred Indigenous Story of the Coca Leaf

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Jul 10, 202629:22Society & Culture

Indigenous groups in South America have been cultivating the coca leaf for 8 millennia. But when the coca leaf became the base ingredient for cocaine, its story changed. In 1961, the United Nations classified the coca le...

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