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coca leaf advocacy, coca tea legalisation

The Divine Coca Leaf Finally Gets Its Day: Wade Davis on ABC’s Sunday Extra

Posted on by Mike the Tea Lover
Three coca leaves in open palm - coca leaf WHO review
18
Jan

A belated but heartfelt response to one of the most articulate defences of the coca leaf ever broadcast. The coca leaf WHO review will soon finally be underway—and in April 2025, ABC’s Sunday Extra aired an interview that should have made national headlines. Professor Wade Davis—Harvard-trained ethnobotanist, former National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, and author of over […]

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coca tea, coca tea legalisation

Coca Tea Market Bigger than Cocaine?

Posted on by Mike the Tea Lover

“The potential market for licit coca leaf is as or larger than the drug” Alfredo Menacho, Wawasana director and board member of Adex, talks to LaMula.pe on the VI International Forum of the Coca Leaf. PLEASE NOTE: This article has been electronically translated from Spanish.  Please forgive any grammatical or other anomalies. In the ten […]

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