Little Tidbit

[hurleyjd]

It takes four hundred pounds of coca leaves to make a pound of cocaine. Wonder if picking coca leaves is like picking cotton. Or have the dope makers got it mechanized by now. I bet you never get rich picking coca leaves or gathering sap from poppies. Probable looking at slave type living for the pickers and gathers. Hope I have given each and every one a little knowledge, I did know this a week ago but got curious.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Now that's a different tidbit!! that's kind of like Hemp. Gotta hand pick.

 

[sim.-ang.king]

And coka-cola supports it, another reason to drink pepsi.
https://amp.businessinsider.com/what-happened-to-the-cocaine-in-coca-cola-2012-2

 

[hurleyjd]

Now that's a different tidbit!! that's kind of like Hemp. Gotta hand pick.

Do you think that tea leaves and coffee beans have to be hand picked. I do not know I have not checked on them. The reason on coca leaves and me searching was that when 19000 lbs of cocaine is found and seized made we wonder.

 

[ohiosteve]

400 lbs of leaves doesn't sound like that much when you consider a lb of cocaine sells for roughly $15,000 on the street.

 

[TexasBred]

It takes four hundred pounds of coca leaves to make a pound of cocaine. Wonder if picking coca leaves is like picking cotton. Or have the dope makers got it mechanized by now. I bet you never get rich picking coca leaves or gathering sap from poppies. Probable looking at slave type living for the pickers and gathers. Hope I have given each and every one a little knowledge, I did know this a week ago but got curious.

hurley according to "google" they make about a thousand dollars a year. For South America I don't know if that's good, average or slave wages.