Is Eradicating Coca Cultural Genocide? | The Agenda

“Coca is to cocaine, what potatoes are to vodka.” Renowned anthropologist, and former Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society, Wade Davis on why the attempt to eradicate coca - the sacred plant of the Inca - in the war on drugs, essentially amounts to cultural genocide.
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