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Hate to break it to you, but the tea you drank in Peru was infused with cocaine. Not terribly much cocaine -- a coca leaf doesn't have a high concentration of
by betterunix 14y ago
Hate to break it to you, but the tea you drank in Peru was infused with cocaine. Not terribly much cocaine -- a coca leaf doesn't have a high concentration of the drug -- but cocaine nonetheless. Cocaine has been used in South America for centuries; it was not until the 19th century that anyone realized you could concentrate and extract the drug, and use a hypodermic needle to get a rapid and extreme effect (this is how Freud used cocaine, as well as the character Sherlock Holmes).
- njs12345 14y agoA cup of coca tea contains about 1/5th of a line of cocaine, apparently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_tea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_tea EDIT: This drink sounds kind of interesting.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_Colla http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_Colla
- notahacker 14y agoBut since drinking tea is considerably less efficient at getting the cocaine into your system, you'd really struggle to replicate a cocaine high from drinking Mate de Coca. It's more like drinking weak tea. Good answer here: http://www.quora.com/Tea/Is-coca-tea-addictive/answer/David-Gorczyca http://www.quora.com/Tea/Is-coca-tea-addictive/answer/David-...
- nicholassmith 14y agoI didn't realise Freud went down the route of injecting with it, I did know he was a big fan of cocaine though. Wrote a reasonably long essay about why it was such a pillar of the modern industrial world.
- illuminate 14y agoOh yes, he got his whole family addicted to it and suggested other families do the same.