Coca leaves on a table at a coca growers' meeting.

Coca leaves

With who?

What Warhol said about Coke is, he said,

Thanks for the Coke.

I wonder if Stella's come back with my lemon Coke.

The coca plant is native to the Andes.

A shot never did a Coke any harm. Oh, let me.

Coca is a native plant to the Andes.

Most illicit coca growers are extremely poor.

Good progress has also been made in eliminating coca bush cultivation.

However, coca leaves are also the raw material for the production of cocaine.

This was in part due to the reduction of coca bush cultivation in Colombia.

Destroying coca plants in the lush mountains in Medellin, Colombia.

Attempts to develop a legal international market for coca products

But for us the chewing of coca leaf is an ancestral custom.

You know as well as I do, Cokes are taboo. All soft drinks.

It is almost impossible to eliminate coca cultivation and cocaine use.

In our region, Ecuador is a bridge between the producers of coca and the processing and distribution centres.

Dynamic growth would, of course, reduce the need to cultivate coca leaves.

In the beginning of Plan Colombia, coca was grown in eight states.

Filling my Coke with bourbon so I can stand it? Is that what you're gonna get back for me?

Demonstrations and public acts, led by both coca growers and traders, took place on Monday, March 12, 2012, in many cities in Bolivia demanding the international depenalisation of the coca leaf.

Washington believes anti drug policies will fail, to the benefit of drug dealers, if coca growers continue to identify themselves with nationalists who vindicate the leaf s production.

Second, there is the programme to eradicate epadú, also known as Brazilian coca.

You've been drinking CocaCola but it won't make you an American postman!

What Warhol said about Coke is, he said, What I really like about Coca Cola is the president of the United States can't get a better Coke than the bum on the corner of the street.

Popular tradition, particularly in the Western part of Bolivia, considers coca a sacred leaf.

UNODC also continued to produce, together with concerned Governments, nationwide annual surveys on coca crops.

They consume more coca leaves than any human population, half a pound per man, per day.

In 2009 alone, the government eradicated more than 165,000 hectares of coca.

Cocaine production has followed the same trend as coca leaf cultivation, pointing to a slight increase.

Andean countries have recorded a decline in coca bush cultivation for the fourth straight year.

Evo Morales, the leader of the opposition and of the coca leaf growers, may be an honest, if misguided, democratic leader, but are his followers untainted by authoritarian desires?

Local media informed that 40 thousand people were due to join coca chewing day .

Reference was made to the annual surveys conducted by UNODC of opium poppy and coca bush cultivation.

Drug abuse trends in the region indicate that cocaine, coca paste and crack cocaine abuse is increasing.

In 2003, coca bush cultivation was less than half of its level in 1994. With regard to cannabis cultivation, further efforts by the international community are urgently needed.

12. The campaign mounted by Bolivia and to a lesser extent by Peru for developing a legal international market for coca products leads the Board to recall that the 1961 Convention specifically limits all activities from production to use of coca leaf and coca leaf products.

Crop eradication will not work over the long term if there is no legal economy to replace drugs.

In spite of this, the report also underlines that in the same period coca bush cultivation and cocaine production has increased in Bolivia and Peru.

Bolivia is leading a campaign to take out the coca leaf from this list of drugs, bad drugs.

You know, research shows repeatedly that we can't actually tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi.

A bunch of you may be a load of pinkos, and you may not like the Coca Cola company, but it's worth remembering Andy Warhol's point about Coke.

More effective reduction of coca shrubs cannot be achieved only by means of law enforcement, nor has the promise of granting cash incentives for each hectare destroyed been sufficient witness the traumatic experience of my country, the second ranking coca producer in the world.