Importing vs growing it. The process to get cocaine from coca leaf is the same as to extract any alkaloid from a plant. The problem is the supply is not contr

Importing vs growing it. The process to get cocaine from coca leaf is the same as to extract any alkaloid from a plant. The problem is the supply is not controlled in the USA, is dependent on the government of Peru and the drug manufacturing cartels have tons and tons of land in Colombia just for growing cocaine. It grows naturally. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John_Casale/publication/299369374/figure/fig1/AS:388516040200193@1469640850572/Map-outlining-each-of-the-known-South-American-coca-growing-regions-investigated.png https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John_Casale/publication... Look at this map, see Peru, See Colombia? That's your competition.