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Coca
Erythroxylum coca
An Andean shrub whose leaf is a traditional altitude chew — and the agricultural source of cocaine.
Flavor
Traditional leaf is green, tea-like, and slightly numbing. Isolated cocaine is not a food.
Symptoms
fatigue, altitude, low appetite
In favor
Deep cultural food-medicine in its home range
Against
US possession and cultivation are illegal
Grow lab
No — habitat / law only
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