Coca Market
by James Brunker
Title
Coca Market
Artist
James Brunker
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Photograph - Photograph
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The coca leaf (Erythroxylum coca) has been grown and used for millennia by the indigenous people of the Andes (especially in what is now Peru and Bolivia) who regard it as sacred. Chewing the leaf is a very common habit; it is also an important medicinal plant (it contains high concentrations of many vitamins, minerals and alkaloids) and is frequently used in rituals and ceremonies. Elsewhere it is best known for the product obtained by the chemical extraction and processing of one of its many alkaloids..... cocaine.
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July 5th, 2012
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