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theonlysun81
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So since moving to the west I've been doing a lot of hiking at getting up above 13,500 ft and what not fairly often in colorado and california. I was thinking about getting some coca tea to help with the altitude sickness, but I am unsure about if it will get seized at customs. Does anyone have any experience with getting this shipped to the US
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I shipped a few kilos to the UK no probs but the shippers won't send here anymore.
Do you really want it for altitude sickness? I was just getting high, mix it with alcohol and its really good.
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I've never done it but heard of others doing it, and receiving their stuff no problem. But dealing with customs is honestly a bit of a dice roll. I mean, you could get an actual brick of coke in the mail, if no dogs hit on it, or no one took notice of it for any reason. Know what i mean? But then other packages do get noticed. Kind of a numbers game. And chance.
I think the more important question is exactly what happens if they do notice it. It's my understanding that this is a real grey area. Technically illegal, but sometimes overlooked? If anyone knows different, please feel free to correct me.
And last... if you look around hard enough, you might be able to find a US seller who imports the stuff themselves, and ships domestic. Of course prices will be higher that way, but I've heard there may be one or two such re-sellers out there.
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CidneyIndole said: I've never done it but heard of others doing it, and receiving their stuff no problem. But dealing with customs is honestly a bit of a dice roll. I mean, you could get an actual brick of coke in the mail, if no dogs hit on it, or no one took notice of it for any reason. Know what i mean? But then other packages do get noticed. Kind of a numbers game. And chance.
I think the more important question is exactly what happens if they do notice it. It's my understanding that this is a real grey area. Technically illegal, but sometimes overlooked? If anyone knows different, please feel free to correct me.
And last... if you look around hard enough, you might be able to find a US seller who imports the stuff themselves, and ships domestic. Of course prices will be higher that way, but I've heard there may be one or two such re-sellers out there.
if you know of a reseller pm me maybe?
but yea i mean i don't need it at all for altitude sickness. I climbed mt. elbert and was fine, as well as pike's peak and a couple 11,000 footers in Nevada and was fine. But I was also insanely high on weed for those hikes, so idk if the weed was helping me, cause I've seen people suffer from it and they are struggling. Me and my buddy were both fine and we're from east coast.
But it would still be nice to have if the weed was really the thing helping. Also I guess I should say I don't do coke, never have never will, but I want to try this cause its a stimulant but not an ego stroker so I want to see what it does.
Also altitude sickness. And night blindness
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I thought coca tea wasn't really that active? 
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I hear coca tea is really great.
I don't know about getting it through customs tho... Sounds a little sketch
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Be careful asking questions about vendors in the forum. (And you could have PMed me ) Even with legal or grey-area products, they seem to frown pretty heavily on anything that could be considered sourcing. Though different mods might interpret the rules a bit differently, it's just a bit risky...
That being said, I honestly don't know anything specific. (And I'd have said this via PM, but I didn't want to get your hopes up when you saw the little blinking envelope. ) I have seen a couple re-sellers a long time ago (couple/few years, at least) when I was looking into this issue and thinking of ordering. But I never went through with it, so I can't really even vouch for anyone.
When it comes to shit like this, google is most definitely your friend. Of course, you have to make up your own mind about who to trust. Safeorscam may or may not have info on small sellers, but you could always check there, if you happen to find one.
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ThatKidWithTheFace said: I thought coca tea wasn't really that active? 
Hm. . .
Well, it's not as active as pure coke, that's for sure. From everything I've read, at least-- I personally haven't tried it.
Since it's a plant product, the actual strength of the leaf from one batch to another (or one seller / brand to another) might vary considerably. For raw coca leaf, I've seen figures ranging from 0.1% - 0.8%. And according to a write-up on erowid, one sample was found to contain 1.2%!!!. Same article talks about how coca grown at higher altitudes will have higher levels.
https://www.erowid.org/archive/rhodium/chemistry/coca2cocaine.html
I also found a very interesting study titled "Identification and quantitation of alkaloids in coca tea." Here are a few of the more relevant parts from the abstract:
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The tea is often packaged in individual servings as tea bags which contain approximately 1 g of plant material. The consumption of coca tea leads to ingestion of cocaine and other alkaloids...
...We performed a series of studies with coca tea bags from two South American countries, Peru and Bolivia. The alkaloidal content of the ‘coca leaf’ in coca tea bags was determined by two different extraction methods...
...Analysis of coca tea bags and coca tea indicated that cocaine, benzoylecgonine, ecgonine methyl ester and trans-cinnamoylcocaine were present in varying quantities.
With exhaustive extraction, an average of 5.11 mg, and 4.86 mg of cocaine per tea bag were found in coca leaf from Peru and Bolivia, respectively...
...When tea was prepared, an average of 4.14 mg of cocaine was present in a cup of Peruvian coca tea and 4.29 mg of cocaine was present in Bolivian tea.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2705900/
They also tested the urine of someone who consumed the tea, and found that the cocaine content of prepared tea increased with steep time (of course.) It's an interesting write-up, and I recommend reading the whole thing. There may be some useful info in there.
I also find it interesting that the amount of cocaine was higher in the Peruvian than the Bolivian, when they measured the content of the leaf itself, but when prepared as tea, the Bolivian was actually slightly higher. Inefficient preparation?
Anyway, it's also my understanding that a lot of the people who use it, are looking for somewhat more subtle effects than one would get from a couple lines of good blow. 
That being said-- I have actually seen a tek online where someone supposedly extracted pure blow from the "tea" leaves. Don't recall if that was here, or elsewhere. But there have definitely been some threads about coca tea around here. Use the search. (Hell, look in the little "similar threads" box at the bottom of this page... though of course you'll probably get more results via an actual search.)
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Seriously_trippin said: get khat
Isn't that stuff illegal? I don't recall ever seeing it for sale anywhere. I feel like I might have seen seeds for sale somewhere. No clue if that stuff would grow where I live. Not that I have great space to grow much of anything...
Always been kind of interested, but I have a pretty bad love/hate thing with cathinones. Lately mostly hate. Maybe healthier that way.
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I thought coca tea wasn't really that active? 
Hm. . .
It most certainly is active. I have used Coca Tea every day for several years, with only positive effects to my health and energy levels.
The trick is to drink or eat (yes, eat) it twice a day for several weeks, to really build up the alkaloids in your system. Most people feel the energy effects after a cup or three, but taking it daily is a great regime, as it will over time, change the alkalinity (PH) of your body.
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Don't buy it from peru. Buy it from Germany....
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I got some into the states in 2010 coming home from Peru- it is illegal to bring the coca leaf for any purpose into the states- but the tea itself is not illegal to have in your possession once here already (this is my understanding- but you can google it). How I get it now is a Spanish grocer nearby. It’s not always available in larger quantities, but you if you live near a city it might be worth a check. Bonanza will ship it to the states but I’ve never bothered because of the price point.
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alfrescoid said:
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I thought coca tea wasn't really that active? 
Hm. . .
It most certainly is active. I have used Coca Tea every day for several years, with only positive effects to my health and energy levels.
The trick is to drink or eat (yes, eat) it twice a day for several weeks, to really build up the alkaloids in your system. Most people feel the energy effects after a cup or three, but taking it daily is a great regime, as it will over time, change the alkalinity (PH) of your body.
Can anyone vouch for this guys business? Has anyone ordered from him here? Clearnet coca just seems super sketchy
Also, is it necessary to communicate and place orders thru your site? Do you have PGP set up?
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Re: coca tea [Re: Pecheur]
#26044945 - 06/10/19 10:12 PM (4 years, 7 months ago) |
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Pecheur said: I got some into the states in 2010 coming home from Peru- it is illegal to bring the coca leaf for any purpose into the states- but the tea itself is not illegal to have in your possession once here already (this is my understanding- but you can google it). How I get it now is a Spanish grocer nearby. It’s not always available in larger quantities, but you if you live near a city it might be worth a check. Bonanza will ship it to the states but I’ve never bothered because of the price point.
Pretty sure, it's still illegal to have. It's just not really enforced. I wish I had a spanish grocer nearby to serve me like that
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I've had luck when I lived in Arizona. No issues whatsoever. 8 years ago though
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I found it from a shroomery vendor from germany
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Crazy_Horse said: They have swiss miss at the grocery store.
I don't think that's real cocao.
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