{"id":39,"date":"2007-06-11T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2007\/06\/the-worlds-greatest-drug-czar.html"},"modified":"2010-03-20T17:13:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T23:13:48","slug":"worlds-greatest-drug-czar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2007\/06\/worlds-greatest-drug-czar.html","title":{"rendered":"The World&#8217;s Greatest Drug Czar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coca, though it is a forbidden to even bring a tea bag&#8217;s worth to the United States*, is actually a folk cure-all that has no narcotic effects without extensive processing. In rural communities, coca is one of the elements that sponsor social cohesion as well as spirituality. An ethnography, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hold-Life-Has-Cultural-Community\/dp\/1588340325\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/105-1469539-0841245?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1181620046&#038;sr=8-1\"><em>The Hold Life Has<\/em><\/a> by Catherine Allen, pursues these links in detail. Before the Spanish arrived, coca was an important part of the economy of the state-level societies such as the Inca. None of this matters to Batman though, as you can see in this comic from 1988: <\/p>\n<div class=\"blogpic\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/blog\/files\/pictures\/batmancoca.jpg\" alt=\"Batman doesn't care that coca is an important element of prehispanic Andean culture.\"  \/><br \/>{Did coca kill his parents? (From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookdb.com\/issue.php?ID=20672\">Batman #424<\/a>)}<\/div>\n<p>*Though you can buy it from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Coca-tea-Windsor-100-Bags\/dp\/B000HAAAKI\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/105-1469539-0841245?ie=UTF8&#038;s=gourmet-food&#038;qid=1181619586&#038;sr=8-1\">Amazon.com<\/a> (?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coca, though it is a forbidden to even bring a tea bag&#8217;s worth to the United States*, is actually a folk cure-all that has no narcotic effects without extensive processing. In rural communities, coca is one of the elements that sponsor social cohesion as well as spirituality. An ethnography, The&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2007\/06\/worlds-greatest-drug-czar.html\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The World&#8217;s Greatest Drug Czar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[20,18],"tags":[181,24,25],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}