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 Man jailed for drinking tea is free -- after 2 months [FL]
#8571717 - 06/27/08 04:56 PM (3 months, 9 days ago) |
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Man jailed for drinking tea is free -- after 2 months
June 27, 2008 - MiamiHerald.com
 From now on, Jerome Klein will refuse tea time.
Klein, 50, was released from Broward County jail Friday after a judge ruled a Bolivian tea he drank was the reason he failed a drug test and violated the terms of his bond.
The tea, called Mate de Coca, made from the coca plant, was given to Klein by his mother just days before a random drug test in April.
He failed the test and was thrown back in jail.
Klein was allowed to stay out of jail while he awaited trial on a burglary charge.
In May, state prosecutors said Klein's urine contained too high a concentration of cocaine to be caused by drinking tea.
But Friday, Theodore Mastos, a former Miami-Dade County judge, convinced Circuit Judge John Murphy III that Klein was the unknowing victim of the herbal brew.
''His mom loaded the guy with the tea. It's full of cocaine,'' Mastos said. ``This was an aberration. He's not a junkie.''
Klein has no criminal history aside from the burglary allegations and has never been arrested on drug charges, records show.
Broward Sheriff's Office lab technicians and state prosecutors had originally agreed with Klein's mother, Shulamit Klein, that the tea was the reason for the skewed drug test results.
But a second look at the results revealed Klein's urine contained 30 times more cocaine concentration than originally reported.
Klein had passed an April 4 blood test but fell ill about a week later. His mother gave him the tea to make him feel better, she said.
''I made the tea. It was my fault,'' Shulamit Klein said. ``I won't use the tea anymore.''
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Re: Man jailed for drinking tea is free -- after 2 months [FL] [Re: veggie]
#8572344 - 06/27/08 08:15 PM (3 months, 9 days ago) |
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i want some of that tea. where can i get some?
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veggie
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Re: Man jailed for drinking tea is free -- after 2 months [FL] [Re: Groomies]
#8572445 - 06/27/08 08:46 PM (3 months, 9 days ago) |
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I ordered mine from Amazon. But a quickie google search will get you many other sources.
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Thrax
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Re: Man jailed for drinking tea is free -- after 2 months [FL] [Re: veggie]
#8572846 - 06/27/08 10:56 PM (3 months, 8 days ago) |
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LOL cocaine tea ftw. Gonna try it out.
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Re: Man jailed for drinking tea is free -- after 2 months [FL] [Re: Thrax]
#8573129 - 06/28/08 12:50 AM (3 months, 8 days ago) |
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Amazon? Tea with coca in it can be legally sold/purchased in the US?
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Thrax
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Re: Man jailed for drinking tea is free -- after 2 months [FL] [Re: Ophanim]
#8573361 - 06/28/08 02:44 AM (3 months, 8 days ago) |
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It makes sense that it's legal..Considering Coca-Cola still contains extracts of coca leaves.
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Re: Man jailed for drinking tea is free -- after 2 months [FL] [Re: Thrax]
#8573393 - 06/28/08 03:01 AM (3 months, 8 days ago) |
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duh i buy O's of coca leavs
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Re: Man jailed for drinking tea is free -- after 2 months [FL] [Re: Coaster]
#8573407 - 06/28/08 03:12 AM (3 months, 8 days ago) |
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His story is probably BS. I find it improbable that coca tea has a high enough concentration of cocaine to cause him to fail a drug test a few days after he drank it. It is a very good excuse though. If I am ever in a position where I fail a drug test due to cocaine use, that will be my excuse. I will even get my mom to go along with it.
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Re: Man jailed for drinking tea is free -- after 2 months [FL] [Re: dtugg]
#8573413 - 06/28/08 03:21 AM (3 months, 8 days ago) |
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duh its bs
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Re: Man jailed for drinking tea is free -- after 2 months [FL] [Re: Thrax]
#8573417 - 06/28/08 03:24 AM (3 months, 8 days ago) |
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cocaine free extracts
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Re: Man jailed for drinking tea is free -- after 2 months [FL] [Re: Ophanim]
#8573458 - 06/28/08 04:27 AM (3 months, 8 days ago) |
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Ophanim said:
Amazon? Tea with coca in it can be legally sold/purchased in the US?
no, they sell it anyways, just like mescaline bearing cacti
so far no one seems to care
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Re: Man jailed for drinking tea is free -- after 2 months [FL] [Re: johnm214]
#8573823 - 06/28/08 09:35 AM (3 months, 8 days ago) |
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no - that's not true...first of all Coca Cola does not have coca extracts in it anymore and thus has no remains of cocaine in it. That was how it first got its name, but has for a long time ceased this practice. Mate Coca tea that you buy in the USA by law has to be "decocainized", just like coffee can be decaffeinated. It still has extremely trace amounts of cocaine in it, but you'd have to have many bags to really feel any cocaine-like effects. But just one bag certainly does provide a nice little energy boost that's a bit more pleasant and smooth than that of caffeine.
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Re: Man jailed for drinking tea is free -- after 2 months [FL] [Re: begreen0]
#8573926 - 06/28/08 10:23 AM (3 months, 8 days ago) |
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begreen0 said:
no - that's not true...first of all Coca Cola does not have coca extracts in it anymore and thus has no remains of cocaine in it.
According to many sources the Coca-Cola syrup still contains an extract of the coca leaf, the production of which is supposedly monitored by the DEA. Coca-Cola is one of the world's largest buyers of coca leaves from Andean nations, and Bolivian president Evo Morales has made public conjectures that a big part of US involvement in coca rich countries is in the interest of protecting the Coca-Cola International's supply of leaves.
Here in the US the ingredients printed on the label contain the vague 'natural flavors' tag, while in South America the ingredient list printed on the label indicate the presence of a 'vegetable extract'.
Every year they buy hundreds of tons of coca leaves from countries like Peru and Bolivia and ship the leaves through companies like Albo Export to a sophisticated warehouse processing plant called Stephen Chemical in Maywood, NJ.
The extract is in fact 'decocainized' and no alkaloids make their way into the final product, but this information does indicate that the coca leaf still has a place in the secret Coca-Cola recipe. That or the people running Coca-Cola International are the biggest coke barons on the planet.
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Re: Man jailed for drinking tea is free -- after 2 months [FL] [Re: BrnDubies]
#8574017 - 06/28/08 11:07 AM (3 months, 8 days ago) |
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according to wiki, "When the cocaine is removed, the amount of cocaine is small enough for the product to legally sell in the USA according to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs." Does this mean that most of the cocaine is removed from all coca tea?
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Re: Man jailed for drinking tea is free -- after 2 months [FL] [Re: danlennon3]
#8574186 - 06/28/08 12:26 PM (3 months, 8 days ago) |
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not all brands.
Coca mate is a better chance of being decocainaited*
plain leaves is your best bet.
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Re: Man jailed for drinking tea is free -- after 2 months [FL] [Re: Ophanim]
#8577429 - 06/29/08 02:02 PM (3 months, 7 days ago) |
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I don't think most of the coca teas are decocanized. The one I got certainly was not.
Its not nearly as strong as a cup of coffee but its still pretty cool. And I can drink it at night and go to sleep an hour later.
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 Re: Man jailed for drinking tea is free -- after 2 months [FL] [Re: dtugg]
#8578334 - 06/29/08 07:03 PM (3 months, 7 days ago) |
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dtugg said:
I find it improbable that coca tea has a high enough concentration of cocaine to cause him to fail a drug test a few days after he drank it.
Coca tea WILL make you test positive for cocaine. I have confirmed this many times with very reliable drug test strips. The concentration of cocaine is low, around 1% in dried leaves if I remember right. However, drinking a few cups of it, especially for regular drinkers, one can test quite high numbers due to accumulation. There was a cop that failed a random UA for cocaine, he had one cup of coca tea the day prior.
As for the LEGALITY: by technical terms, coca leaf is considered the same as processed cocaine, no "lower limit" within detection exists for legal leaf. However, I've heard that drug dogs trained for Cocaine will not detect Coca leaves. Besides all that, priorities of LEO; unless your ordering tons of leaves, no one gives a shit. Nonetheless, we ought to refrain from providing specific sources.
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