The leave of coca plant is a base of the Andean culture. People from the 'altiplano' has always been using it for its nutritional, medical and magical characteristics. Cocaine is its chemical and artificial by-product, that has converted the holy leave in "the bad grass", in the demonized leave, illegal in almost the whole world and cause of fights in Bolivia, one of its major producer.
In this country many people lives on the harvest of this plant. In fact, a big movement led by the president Evo Morales, is working to industrialize the transformation of the plant in food, cosmetics and medicines, and he is fighting for the international decriminalization of this leave full of virtues.