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Jun 30Liked by Ben Bartee

Coca tea is amazing. My hotel in Cusco had complimentary coca tea. It really hit the spot for altitude adjustment.

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The Department of Education is really a kind of clearing house or trading market for all the companies that want to do business in the education system. Textbook publishers, obviously, but more important all the new-fangled curricula, and still more obscure, all the researchers in the 'science' of sculpting kids into obedient consumers. Note that I do not use the word 'citizens' here, because that is not wanted. Also among the researchers are the psychologists, social 'scientists', cultural anthropologists, etc. Ed dept. facilitates all these academic spazoid commie dipshit academics to get grants for their batshit crazy research projects. The academics get more bogus credentials, the city and county education boards get more bloated with non-teaching admin personnel who interfere with teachers, we get fucked up kids and a degraded culture and civilization. Notice that costs per child in the public schools have gone waaaaaay up since the Ed Dept. was created. Oh, and the unions know where to cluster and insist on more bennies and influence, thanks federal government!

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I would venture to guess chewing coca leaves or drinking the tea would relieve a whole array of symptoms. Of course you can't use a natural plant. Big pHARM can't patent a natural plant so we must make it illegal..... We need to make all plants Lawful to grow and consume... Tell the DEA to pound sand... They operate in the jurisdiction of the water not the land..... Peace...

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DARE was so successful me and everyone in my class were smoking weed and dropping acid by the age of 15. If anything DARE made kids do more drugs than they would have as it introduced the whole cornucopia of mind altering substances to 11 year olds and then said oh by the way you shouldn’t use them. Had to be a psy-op by the government, just like tranny movement is now.

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factoid of interest :

technically, cocaine has a lower LD50 than caffeine...

no fan of the white lady, but i definitely understand those that are...

which includes doctors, dentists and pharmacists, as a large cohort of cocaine 'addicts' (YMMV)...

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Oh, those days brewing up coca tea on the altiplano.... WTF am I doing in Europe?... 😜

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The government is lying about the difference between the coca leaf and cocaine, and government schools are not about education but about indoctrination. Government schools as indoctrination centers I have been aware of for quite sometime, but the difference between the coca leaf and cocaine never entered my radar. It is something new to me. Thanks for exposing another government lie. Exposing the the lies, absurdities, and hypocrisies of government seem to be your speciality and the main reason I decide to subscribe to your substack.

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I can attest to the long lasting latent energy release provided by Coca tea, it is crazy that it is banned in many countries, to even grow the plant. Nice piece shining a light on the coca plant's properties here.

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