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The World health Organisation is conducting a critical review into whether the coca plant should be decriminalised. Coca leaves have been used by the indigenous populations of the Andes for medicinal, nutritional and spiritual purposes for thousands of years. Can the leaves be separated legally from their processed form - cocaine?
Guest: Wade Davis, Professor of Anthropology, University of British Colombia and author of the article The Secret History of Coca in Rolling Stone Magazine
By ABCThe World health Organisation is conducting a critical review into whether the coca plant should be decriminalised. Coca leaves have been used by the indigenous populations of the Andes for medicinal, nutritional and spiritual purposes for thousands of years. Can the leaves be separated legally from their processed form - cocaine?
Guest: Wade Davis, Professor of Anthropology, University of British Colombia and author of the article The Secret History of Coca in Rolling Stone Magazine

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