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WOLA Drug War Monitor Coca is not cocaine Coca is the sacred leaf of the Andean people, commonly used for chewing, making coca tea and relieving the effects of altitude…

REPORT:  Drug War Monitor, July 2002.  This is a publication of the Washington Office on Latin America’s “Drugs, Democracy and Human Rights” project, which examines the impact of drug trafficking…

English Allen, Catherine. The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988. Burchard, Roderick E. Coca Chewing and Diet. Current Anthropology 33:…

General Strategy ·The U.S. government should evaluate the effectiveness of the current source country supply-side strategy in the war on drugs and acknowledge its demonstrated failure to reduce drug consumption…