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I really liked the coca leaf tea I had this Saturday. I live in Oakland, CA. Does anyone know of a reputable seller online or offline for this tea, and the best form?
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Re: coca leaf tea
Wed, August 20, 2008 - 11:55 AMCoca Tea is Sacred. One supplier that seems good is inkario. They are in Peru, but I do believe they ship worldwide is www.inkario.ecrater.com/product.php -
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Sat, August 30, 2008 - 9:02 PMbelieve it or not, amazon.com sells a variety of coca teas. -
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Tue, September 16, 2008 - 12:29 PM> believe it or not, amazon.com sells a variety of coca teas.
Holy cow!
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Mon, November 3, 2008 - 7:47 AMI have had it before, but for some reason, I was having a hard time acheiving effects from it when oraly ingested. When I chewed on 2 tea bags with baking soda, I felt the powerful effects without any negative side effects.
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Mon, November 17, 2008 - 6:22 PMFrom what I can see, sale of coca leaf within the US is only legal if the alkaloids have been removed. Vendors selling coca tea from within the US do not address this; they simply advertise tea made from coca leaves. The Caranavi brand from Reyes-Avila makes a very tasty tea, and four of the tea bags chewed with some bicarb do numb the mouth and seem to provide some extra energy. I have never used coca leaves outside of the US, so I have no basis for comparison. Anyway, it's a decent tea. I prefer to empty the bags into a gourd and drink it through a bombilla, like yerba mate.
Here is something else which I came across while reading about legality. Could it be that the US-marketed coca tea leaves are yet another side bar from this process?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca
"In the United States, the Stepan Company of Maywood, New Jersey has the only license to legally import coca leaf. The company manufactures pure cocaine for medical use and also produces a cocaine-free extract of the coca leaf, which is used as a flavoring ingredient in Coca-Cola. According to the Bolivian Press, in 1996 the legal importation of coca leaf by Coca-Cola was 204 tons annually." -
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Thu, November 20, 2008 - 5:40 PMThe cocaine is definitely removed from leaves sold within the US. Otherwise it would be a violation of federal law. But coca leaves clearly contain some active substances other than cocaine. Chewing quids of the aforementioned tea bags causes numbing in the mouth, along with appetite suppression. There is a mild lift, but no euphoria to speak of. Definitely not a recreational substance, but it has its uses. Yerba mate and coca tea make a nice half-and-half mix.
The Reyes-Avila leaves are shipped from Bolivia by the vendor, and ship from Charlotte NC. The Caranavi brand which I received smelled very fresh. The tea bags are packed in hermetically sealed foil packs, ten bags to a pack. The shipment comes in a thick sealed plastic ziplock bag, the same type as those used by the kava vendors in the Pacific. -
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Thu, November 20, 2008 - 5:55 PMSmelled like Columbian to me. But we can discuss this furthur in the Coca® Tribe! tribes.tribe.net/27b954e3-...92893271a2
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Thu, November 20, 2008 - 6:11 PMI beg to differ!!!
HA ha, I definitely got high off of quiding 2 bags and it lasted about an hour. So amazing! Not addictive either. I ran out though....... -
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Sat, November 22, 2008 - 9:40 PMYou might have a good point there Ralph. This is from back in 2000: www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php
The appetite-suppressant properties of this product are great for chronic late-night snackers :p -
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Sat, November 29, 2008 - 7:02 AMper Andrew WEil MD, there are something like fourteen pharmacologically active alkaloids in coca.whole plants are SOOO different than isolating a single ingredient! I don;t know much about the other chemicals in green coca, woul like to read more. I know this is also true of opium...there;s one STIMULANT compound within opium that helps balance the CNSdepressing effects of several other compounds within the stuff. -
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Wed, December 3, 2008 - 7:09 PMgot a 300 gram bag of coca leaf tea from a vendor in peru. tried a few leaves (5-7) as a quid with some baking soda. definetely alot of numbing of the lips, tongue, and mouth. no noticeable increase in energy, but got me focused and a little bit in the zone. no real high, but a definate change in mood, a little on the edgy side. hmmm... sounds a little like a certain powder i know. definately active on some level and worth some experimentation. i'm planning on brewing a batch of beer with the bulk of the leaves. should be interesting.
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