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Coca-chewing Bolivians press for end to UN ban
    #13854338 - 01/26/11 02:11 PM (13 years, 2 months ago)

Coca-chewing Bolivians press for end to UN ban
January 26, 2011 - AFP



LA PAZ — Bolivians chewed coca leaves in demonstrations around the country Wednesday to push for a change in a 1961 UN convention to remove a ban on a practice that has been part of indigenous cultures here for millennia.

Protesters gathered outside the US embassy in La Paz to chew the leaf as part of a day of demonstrations around the country celebrating the coca plant and demanding that the UN Single Convention on Narcotics Drugs be amended.

The United States has said it would oppose the Bolivian proposal, calling the 50 year old convention "an important tool in the global struggle against narcotics trafficking."

The agreement designates the coca leaf as a narcotic, and calls on countries to eradicate coca leaf chewing.

Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca has been visiting European capitals, seeking support for the amendment. The United Nations has until January 31 to decide whether to change the treaty.

"The countries support us so that we can de-penalize (coca chewing); the only one opposing us is the United States," said Leonilda Zurita, a coca grower and a leader of the ruling Movement Toward Socialism party.

Marches in La Paz, Santa Cruz and other cities drew coca growers, peasants, Indians, miners, makers of coca-based products, activists and lawmakers from the ruling party.

In city plazas, participants chewed coca leaves, a practice known as "acullico" in the Aymara language, or "pijcheo" in Quechua.

The coca leaf (Erythroxylum coca) is part of everyday life for people in the Andean region. An estimated seven million people in a region stretching from southern Colombia through Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile and Argentina chew coca leaves, as did their ancestors going back many generations.

Known for its stimulating and blood oxygenation properties, the little green leaf is loaded with vitamins and 14 alkaloids.

Chewed coca releases a mild narcotic which serves to combat altitude sickness, hunger and fatigue.

President Evo Morales rose to power as the leader of a coca growers' union.

And since 2009, Bolivia's constitution describes coca as a "cultural heritage, a renewable natural resource" and a key biodiversity element that helps maintain "Bolivian social cohesion."

The US embassy, in a statement reaffirming US opposition to the proposed amendment to the UN convention, said it was willing to work with the Bolivian government "out of respect for these millennial practices."

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Re: Coca-chewing Bolivians press for end to UN ban [Re: veggie]
    #13854395 - 01/26/11 02:21 PM (13 years, 2 months ago)

Write your congressman.


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Re: Coca-chewing Bolivians press for end to UN ban [Re: Sophistic Radiance]
    #13854447 - 01/26/11 02:29 PM (13 years, 2 months ago)

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LA PAZ — Bolivians chewed coca leaves in demonstrations around the country Wednesday to push for a change in a 1961 UN convention to remove a ban on a practice that has been part of indigenous cultures here for millennia.




Hopefully these people will be allowed to follow their cultural ancestors and be allowed to make their own decisions, not being forced by the U.N and America to stop doing something they've been practicing for thousands of years.

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Write your congressman.




I'm planning on it, Hopefully if this changes then hopefully a call for change will happen for other illegal substances across the world that have cultural value, such as Psilocybin mushrooms.


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Re: Coca-chewing Bolivians press for end to UN ban [Re: veggie]
    #13856105 - 01/26/11 07:26 PM (13 years, 2 months ago)

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Chewed coca releases a mild narcotic




Nope, stimulant. MSNBC got it right.

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Re: Coca-chewing Bolivians press for end to UN ban [Re: tibberous]
    #13856544 - 01/26/11 08:52 PM (13 years, 2 months ago)

someone put these brown people in prison

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Re: Coca-chewing Bolivians press for end to UN ban [Re: demon66]
    #13856601 - 01/26/11 09:02 PM (13 years, 2 months ago)

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someone put these brown people in prison



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Re: Coca-chewing Bolivians press for end to UN ban [Re: TNK]
    #13856617 - 01/26/11 09:04 PM (13 years, 2 months ago)

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LA PAZ — Bolivians chewed coca leaves in demonstrations around the country Wednesday to push for a change in a 1961 UN convention to remove a ban on a practice that has been part of indigenous cultures here for millennia.




Hopefully these people will be allowed to follow their cultural ancestors and be allowed to make their own decisions, not being forced by the U.N and America to stop doing something they've been practicing for thousands of years.






Remember, it's not just "America", it's namely our government. I'd bet 100 to 1 odds if you took a poll on the streets in this country and asked if we support Bolivians' right to chew Coca leaves, 75% or more would say yes.

It's the stupid politicians that stupid people in this country keep re-electing for stupid reasons (i.e. "He's cool"). Even the liberals in our country are terrified to touch drug reform because most of the people that vote in the US are older. I think in 20-30 years things will be much different here in regards to drug legality.

I think a lot of the conservatives (Not Repubicans, constitutionalists) are going to make the jump to Libertarian as I and a lot of the rest have. Most of us are with libs on social issues, just don't like government control (Drug war) and federal involvement in state affairs. Drug laws are imposed by blackmailing with the states' highway funding that comes out of OUR pockets anyway! That's the really fucked up part about the whole thing, and that's what has put a halt on progress...if the states could move individually with the freedom that they were intended to from the beginning, we would see much more progress. Conservatives and Libertarians both want to end this sort of crap.

The way to progress is seen two different ways. Some want to force it to happen via laws, and some want to create an environment which will allow it to happen on its own. I am one of the latter. No amount of laws can circumvent human nature.


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Re: Coca-chewing Bolivians press for end to UN ban [Re: SB-2]
    #13857414 - 01/26/11 11:19 PM (13 years, 2 months ago)

Very well put.  I could not agree more about the government having way to much control.  The founding fathers wanted to escape this very issue.  I am libertarian all the way.  Let the people xhoose.  Sorry if this made no sense I am rather drunk at the moment lol.


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Re: Coca-chewing Bolivians press for end to UN ban [Re: gonzoapprentice92]
    #13857712 - 01/27/11 12:33 AM (13 years, 2 months ago)

How do you make the leaf into cocaine?  Why is the leaf illegal?  Anyone watch Blackhawk down, people in Africa don't seem to fear U.S. law enforcement by chewing this leaf. :inlove3:


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Re: Coca-chewing Bolivians press for end to UN ban [Re: timelapses]
    #13858033 - 01/27/11 02:36 AM (13 years, 2 months ago)

I hope the US objection is defeated. The cheek of them to think they can dictate another country over something like this. And Sweden, I am disappointed in you what the hell were you threatened with to give in like that! Something smells.:rolleyes:


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Re: Coca-chewing Bolivians press for end to UN ban [Re: FruitBowl]
    #13858600 - 01/27/11 08:30 AM (13 years, 2 months ago)

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How do you make the leaf into cocaine?  Why is the leaf illegal?  Anyone watch Blackhawk down, people in Africa don't seem to fear U.S. law enforcement by chewing this leaf




The leaf is the starting point. its pretty easily converted into a slurry and from their a paste, then the paste is refined; the refining process obviously requires more work and is more difficult.

And in the Blackhawk down, they are chewing khat.


I understand that cultures can fade out and burn away but how can someone still be putting bans on cultures "a millenia" old? what is the point of banning culture besides being ignorant and greedy?

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Re: Coca-chewing Bolivians press for end to UN ban [Re: tealeaf]
    #13858637 - 01/27/11 08:41 AM (13 years, 2 months ago)

You would understand if it was something like female genital mutilation, even if that has been done for thousands of years that is not an excuse. Why can't the US put resources into combating culturally ingrained things like that, rather than bloody plant chewing!


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Re: Coca-chewing Bolivians press for end to UN ban [Re: FruitBowl]
    #13859871 - 01/27/11 01:03 PM (13 years, 2 months ago)

Because the game is "fixed" in regard to who we even have the choice to elect here. Only electable candidates get nominated to either party, and neither party considers drug reform electable because of the older generation of voters.

It's not like all of America is against some Bolivians chewing leaves. Sorry, I just see a LOT of anti-America crap posted everywhere. Most of it is deserved, but little of it should be aimed at the American people as a whole. The people pushing this kind of crap are the minority. I'm an American, obviously, and I know what the people are like here. Our government is no longer "by the people, for the people", the government's views and policies are not te views and policies of all or even most Americans.

Don't even get me started on the joke they call the UN...:rolleyes:


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