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I've had coca leaves. Meh. Basically caffeine. The only problem is that they can be refined into cocaine, and the effort required to turn coca into cocaine compared to making fentanyl just makes that particular restriction extra stupid.
They need an equatorial rainforest climate to grow in economic quantities anyhow. Nobody is going to import literal tons of coca leaves to make trifling amounts of cocaine.
I chewed a fair bit of coca while in South America. Pretty tame stuff.
Same. Macchu Picchu Trail, it was a big help.
Coca has cocaine in it. The buzz you're describing is from cocaine.
... yes? A small amount. Taken through your digestion, not snorted or injected.
Caffeine will fuck you up in powder form, too.
Caffeine will fucking KILL you in powdered form in fairly small amounts. Like half or a third as much as it would take for cocaine to kill you.
The real question is: what happens if you crack caffeine? Like, treat caffeine the same way you treat cocaine to get crack?