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"...this is a green coca leaf, it is not the white of cocaine, this coca leaf represents Andean culture, it is a coca leaf that represents the environment and the hope of our peoples.
It is not possible that the coca leaf is legal for Coca Cola and that the coca leaf is illegal for other medicinal purposes in our country, and in the whole world."
Evo Morales Aima,
President of Bolivia
in the General Assembly of the UN,
September
19th, 2006 |
"Brother Evo, this is the cannabis leaf, our green leaf. It is the sacred leaf of the suffering and the oppressed all over the world, prohibited, and its consumers persecuted by the empire. How is it possible that in Bolivia the coca leaf is legal for the Andean peoples but the cannabis leaf is considered a drug, its consumption prohibited for
'los blanquitos'*?"
Frans, Webmaster, from his screen.
*Blanquito: diminutive for blanco, a white person
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