Other Uses for the Coca Leaf are Popping up

The Andean entrepreneurs are coming up with commercial goods such as tea, toothpaste, shampoo, candy and liquor that are made from the banned coca leaf. In the middle of it all is Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia who stunned recently the UN dignitaries who are responsible for banning the leaf from being traded by asking questions like "Why should Coca-Cola alone be allowed to use the coca leaf in its products while there are other many useful uses for it that are far from what everyone knows as the source of cocaine." Morale, a coca farmer himself, is said to have destroyed more coca farmlands than his predecessors have even if the USA that had spent billions of dollar to eradicate the plant is saying that it is not enough. The new development is, there are many companies that are out to save the sacred plant that had been in use from ancient time and they are armed with scientific evidence that there are genuine and harmless uses for it.