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Konyap

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Re: Ever eaten a coca leaf [Re: Konyap]
#18753944 - 08/25/13 03:03 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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3. Why is the coca leaf banned?
In 1961 the coca leaf was listed on Schedule I of the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs together with cocaine and heroin, with a strict control level on medical and scientific use.
The inclusion of coca leaf in Schedule I was done with a dual purpose: to phase out coca chewing and to prevent the manufacture of cocaine. The Single Convention mandated to destroy coca bush if illegally cultivated (Article 26) and that coca leaf chewing must be abolished within a 25-year period (Article 49) - i.e. by December 1989, 25 years after the coming into force of the treaty.
The rationale for including the coca leaf in the 1961 Single Convention is mainly rooted in a report by the ECOSOC Commission of Enquiry on the Coca Leaf in 1950, after a brief visit to Bolivia and Peru in 1949.
It concluded that the effects of chewing coca leaves were negative, even though it “does not at present appear that the chewing of the coca leaf can be regarded as a drug addiction in the medical sense”. The WHO expert Committee on Drug Dependence later withdrew this argument, labeling coca use as a form of cocainism.
The ECOSOC report was sharply criticised for the makeup of its researchers, its arbitrariness, poor methodology, lack of precision and racist connotations. Nowadays, a similar study would never pass the scrutiny and critical review to which scientific studies are routinely subjected.
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Konyap

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Re: Ever eaten a coca leaf [Re: Konyap]
#18753945 - 08/25/13 03:03 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Nevertheless, in their 2007 annual report the INCB retracted on its earlier position and called on countries to "abolish or prohibit coca leaf chewing and the manufacture of coca tea."
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Re: Ever eaten a coca leaf [Re: Konyap]
#18753946 - 08/25/13 03:03 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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What are you even trying to prove? Why are you replying to yourself with more Wiki copypasta?
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Konyap

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I forgot what the active dose was and I thought the other stuff was well written, also I'd like to chew some leaves too!
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Konyap

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Re: Ever eaten a coca leaf [Re: Konyap]
#18753967 - 08/25/13 03:17 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I think it wouldn't grow in my climate though.
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Re: Ever eaten a coca leaf [Re: Konyap]
#18808046 - 09/06/13 04:22 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I have the best memories of consuming coca, it really helped with the alititude
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Edited by Amphibolos (09/06/13 04:28 PM)
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