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Coca Si, Cocaina No: Audio slideshow

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For the past two years, Bolivian President Evo Morales has shifted drug policy in Bolivia toward a...

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The United Nations' International Narcotics Control Board recently made the announcement that Peru and Bolivia should, once and for all, outlaw the chewing of coca.

Those are fighting words in Bolivia, where coca leaves have been grown and used in their natural form for thousands of years.

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