Sentence examples for use of coca from inspiring English sources

They argue that tolerating the use of coca harms efforts to suppress cocaine.

Indigenous people, including Bolivia's first indigenous president, Evo Morales, defend the use of coca and consider it a sacred plant.

This includes even the traditional use of coca leaves (from which cocaine is extracted) by Andean Indians for chewing and tea.

It is also a culture in which the use of coca -- to chew as a stimulant and to quell hunger -- has been central.

Take Bolivia, which last year left the 1961 UN convention on narcotics control because it wants legal protection for the traditional use of coca leaves, which are chewed by Amerindians and drunk as tea.

Although the use of coca has disappeared from islands in the Caribbean and from Venezuela, to this day Kogi and Ika Indians of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the snow-covered mountains that rise inland from Colombia's north coast, use coca as they always have.

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And Bolivia allows traditional uses of coca, the plant used to make cocaine.

He also says that he opposes cocaine and the drug trade, but wants to promote new uses of coca.

A former coca growers union leader, Mr. Morales has promoted traditional uses of coca leaf while professing zero tolerance for cocaine trafficking.

Traditional uses of coca are not addictive and are as much part of Andean culture as a cuppa is in Britain or beer in Texas.