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Coca in sentence

51 examples of Coca in a sentence

You can just take the DNA code from marijuana or poppies or coca leaves and cut and past that gene and put it into yeast, and you can take those yeast and make them make the cocaine for you, or the marijuana, or any other drug.
For example, the coca plant is a fragile plant that can only grow in certain latitudes, and so it means that a business model to address this market requires you to have decentralized, international production, that by the way needs to have good quality control, because people need a good high that is not going to kill them and that is going to be delivered to them when they need it.
Look in Bolivia and Peru, where all sorts of products made from the coca leaf, the source of cocaine, are sold legally over the counter with no apparent harm to people's public health.
I only managed to do it by chewing more coca leaves in one day than anyone in the 4,000-year history of the plant.
They consume more coca leaves than any human population, half a pound per man, per day.
Barely pausing to say hello, he offers him hematite, dried seaweed, and empty shells to grind up for lime and chew with coca leaves.
It tells the story of Freddy (Freddy Flores), a Bolivian with a gentle disposition, who, after Americans burn down the coca fields where he is employed, loses his job.
This “poisoned earth” policy kills coca plants, not peasant farmers.
So many of these cross into Ecuador to cultivate coca there.
Poppy, like coca, is an ideal cash crop for farmers with small areas of land and few resources.
Fighting poppy and/or coca production, on the other hand, is an ideal political stance for politicians.
Peasant farmers may, for a time, be bribed or intimidated (the Taliban executes Afghan poppy growers) into cultivating crops other than poppy or coca.
But when the pond dries up or the substitute crop or job fails, so long as there are rich drug users in the West, they will return to cultivating poppy or coca if it provides a livelihood for their families.
President Evo Morales’s rise to power was inspired by historic discrimination against the indigenous majority, with the coca leaf as an emblem of an ancestral grudge.
Morales was born into a peasant household on the Andean altiplano and later established himself in Chapare at the beginning of the coca boom.
By defending the coca leaf, consumed for centuries in the Andean world and the raw material for cocaine, Morales was able to link his opposition to America’s anti-drug policy with the defense of native cultural tradition and the economic rights of the poor.
These resources feed armed insurgents, criminal bands and, increasingly, provide the lifeblood for many small peasants, who cultivate some 130 thousand hectares of coca plants.
These so-called "wars" are part of the same conflict that prompted the peasant blockades of September 2000, the continuing protests by coca growers against efforts to eradicate their crops because of their role in the cocaine trade, and the withdrawal earlier this year of a progressive tax project.
But the most radical indigenous groups rejected the initiative, and the group organizing the coca growers took advantage of the situation, stirring up nationalist sentiments.
This was easily accomplished, given Bolivia's memory of its losses: the loss of its seacoast to Chile in the War of the Pacific in 1879, of coca crops to the US eradication program, and the country's mineral wealth to transnational corporations.
Cocaine, in a country with no coca bush?
On the supply side, there must be more support for poor farmers in drug-producing countries to give them viable alternatives to growing coca.
Most illicit coca growers are extremely poor.
If all of Colombia’s farmers stopped growing coca tomorrow, unrestrained demand by the world’s 13 million cocaine users would quickly generate as much cultivation somewhere else.
Earlier in the day, we’d witnessed a hundred capuchin and squirrel monkeys rush down from the Amazon jungle canopy and were now relaxing beside Lake Chalalan while her cousin, a shaman, blessed coca leaves as the evening’s traditional drumming and dancing began.
Bolivia's peasant coca cultivators are viewed not as indigenous people trying to survive in a region mostly without jobs, but as drug traffickers.
Not surprisingly, the 2002 elections turned on the explosive coca eradication issue.
Evo Morales, the leader of the coca growers' federation, came within a whisker of winning the presidency, helped by the US ambassador's warning that his election would be seen as hostile to America.
Now US interests in Bolivia lie in shambles: the country seethes with violence, and coca production is likely to soar.
One indirect, yet tragic, result has been Bolivian, Peruvian, and Colombian peasants’ continuing cultivation of coca leaves as a means of economic survival.
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