>>"Cocoa" is chocolate.
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>Thanks for the correction. I knew they were different plants, but thought they were spelled the same.

I am just looking it up in www.dictinary.com - they say that "cocoa" is an alteration of "cacao". I think in Spanish-speaking countries, "cocoa" is more common for chocolate; in German I learned it as "Kakao".

>>Here in Bolivia they claim that "coca is not cocaine", which may technically be true, but much of the coca eventually is used to produce cocaine. On the other hand, the coca leaves are chewed directly; I assume the leaves have a small amount of cocaine, but not enough to get high on.
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>>It should also be remembered that coca is part of the culture - it has been used traditionally, perhaps for a thousand years or more.
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>>It seems that Evo Morales wants to legalize the production of the Coca leaf, but at the same time, wants to go against drug trafficking.
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>It will be interesting to see how he balances that.

Yeah; we are wondering about quite a few things, i.e., how things will work out. Let's put it this way: it looks as if it can hardly get worse. The last two presidents have been ousted by protests from the population, corruption is rampant, ...