Coca Mate - Interesting to try

[BROOKLYN]

Now if I want to bring some of these coca mate back home to u.s. will I be arrested for importing cocaine ??? will cocaine show up in my blood if i get a drug tested at work??

 

[2GuysInPM]

Coca is not cocaine according to Evo. But you can check the internetz.

@Lee; good stuff. tried it in Peru a couple years ago.

 

[Guillo]

Be careful, most of those things will make you test positive for coke.

 

[FeelGoodLost]

I love coca tea. The best is fresh brewed loose leaf coca leaves. Isn't it illegal to sell in Argentina though? I might have to go pick up a box of the stuff.

 

[jago25_98]

I guess not...they had it right in the window for all to see.

no rules baby!

I second the be careful opinion. In peru they say `ah, it's not the same thing`, and, in a way, they are right, it's not at all the same as cocaine. But it's still additive, like coffee. Try it but I wouldn't go crazy with it.

Sugar, caffine, alcohol, ass, there's more to BA than drugs

 

[FeelGoodLost]

Coca leaves can be pretty potent. When I was in Cusco I had the opportunity to chew some leaves with some of the locals and they chew the leaves with a little pinch of this black gooey stuff that activates the alkaloids in the coca. It gives you a a pretty good buzz and will make your mouth completely numb.

Coca tea on the otherhand is completely harmless and quite tasty in my opinion. Great for altitude sickness.

 

[FeelGoodLost]

Yeah, they sell it in the markets and the coca shops in Cusco. It comes in a couple of different forms. There's the "black gooey stuff" as I had mentioned before that is sweetened and I believe it is called llipta(I think that's how it is spelled) and it's from Bolivia. There is also a much harder rock like substance that I believe is made from the ash of the quinoa plant and lime that is basically the same thing.