Coca is not cocaine!

Leaves of coca trees for sale in Bolivia - Photo: Telegraph

That is the name of the legalization campaign of growing coca in Bolivia. The country has sent a petition to the United Nations Crime and Drug Prevention Agency in Vienna (Austria) to persuade the way to classify coca plants in 2008. From 1961 to now, coconuts are classified by the UN. into the 'toxic plants' category.

This country with coca cultivation experience of more than 3,500 years is determined to prove that coca leaves can produce legal products for export rather than just making cocaine.

Bolivians said coca leaves have a laxative effect, providing more nutrients and vitamins than some other vegetables. They are calling for mass production and export across South America with coca products like tea, bread, toothpaste, shampoo .

If the UN 'nods', the United States will be the least happy country because it has spent $ 1 billion a year on 'anti-opium war' in South America.

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