Popular tradition, particularly in the Western part of Bolivia, considers coca a sacred leaf.

Cocaine production has followed the same trend as coca leaf cultivation, pointing to a slight increase.

Demonstrations and public acts, led by both coca growers and traders, took place on Monday, March 12, 2012, in many cities in Bolivia demanding the international depenalisation of the coca leaf.

UNODC continued to focus assistance on providing sustainable livelihood schemes to former coca leaf and opium poppy growers in the Andean region.

In Colombia, coca leaf cultivation has decreased continuously as a result of a rigorous eradication programme coupled with the government led forest warden programme.

President Evo Morales s rise to power was inspired by historic discrimination against the indigenous majority, with the coca leaf as an emblem of an ancestral grudge.

In 1992, he commanded a military base in an Amazon village where coca leaf was grown and where Sendero Luminoso guerrillas and drug trafficking bands worked together.

Evo Morales, the leader of the opposition and of the coca leaf growers, may be an honest, if misguided, democratic leader, but are his followers untainted by authoritarian desires?

In its most recent report on the global trade in illegal drugs, the US State Department stressed the increase in coca leaf crops in Peru and Bolivia last year.

With a few minor exceptions, migration is internal to the region, and a modus vivendi has been reached with the drug trade, mainly coca leaf and cocaine in Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia.

Coca leaves on a table at a coca growers' meeting.

Leaf (final)

Decorative Leaf

You put the stick in the powder to take the sacred ashes well, they're not ashes, they're burnt limestone to empower the coca leaf, to change the pH of the mouth to facilitate the absorption of cocaine hydrochloride.

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Lots of stuff. There's a little leaf chair that golden looking thing is called Leaf.

Even Bolivia s government should not be regarded as a reincarnation of the continent s old populism. President Evo Morales s rise to power was inspired by historic discrimination against the indigenous majority, with the coca leaf as an emblem of an ancestral grudge.

As for sustainable livelihoods, UNODC will support Member States in their efforts to reduce, eliminate and prevent illicit cultivation of coca leaf, opium poppy and cannabis, notably in Afghanistan, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Morocco, Myanmar and the Andean region.

On your right hand side you can see a cucumber leaf, and on the middle, cotton leaf, and on the left a tomato leaf with these little stipplings.

Coca Cola is that farmer.

By defending the coca leaf, consumed for centuries in the Andean world and the raw material for cocaine, Morales was able to link his opposition to America s anti drug policy with the defense of native cultural tradition and the economic rights of the poor.

In Mar del Plata, Argentina, last month, he openly participated in a rally against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), in the company of, among others, Evo Morales, the coca leaf growers leader from Bolivia who might well become that country s next president.

Layla was shaking like a leaf.

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Most illicit coca growers are extremely poor.

Coca is a native plant to the Andes.

The coca plant is native to the Andes.

Even though the Colombian government chemically eradicated 523,000 hectares of coca between 2000 and 2004, 114,000 hectares of coca remained under cultivation last year.

Daikon leaf is frequently eaten as a green vegetable.

The paths from root to leaf represents classification rules.

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Destroying coca plants in the lush mountains in Medellin, Colombia.

That is the fig leaf with which it covers itself.

Coca Cola is phasing out all use of climate polluting hydrofluorocarbons.

A twisted rope of palm leaf fibre round her ( own ) neck !

A twisted rope of palm leaf fibre round her ( own ) neck !

Good progress has also been made in eliminating coca bush cultivation.

Coca Cola. A bunch of you may be a load of pinkos, and you may not like the Coca Cola company, but it's worth remembering Andy Warhol's point about Coke.

In 2009 alone, the government eradicated more than 165,000 hectares of coca.

Both Coca Cola and PepsiCo use Usina Trapiche sugar in their products.

Petal is a city in Forrest County, Mississippi, along the Leaf River.

Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?

But I am surprised by one thing that they do have Coca Cola.

India could take a leaf from China s success in handling the Taiwan problem.

However, coca leaves are also the raw material for the production of cocaine.