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Rephrase and replace when confirmed and NPOV
It seems to me that this topic is vitally important, yet completely missing from the wiki. Why was coca grown in the beginning? What benefit does it have to the indigenous people, outside of being a cash crop? As an herbal remedy, what uses was it put to? Who used it? Do they still? I remember from my studies of the Andean native peoples that coca was used as a mild stimulant to help people walk up and down the very steep mountains. Farms were arranged vertically, so each family had some land to plant at the top of the mountain, the middle & in the valley. The coca reportedly helped prevent altitude sickness as well as heart stress from walking. Is it still used this way? I think these questions are worth asking, and may lead to others. As-is, the article makes the coca growers out to be evil drug dealers out to kill Americans with cocaine. Surely they have their own agenda and purposes that have little to do with us. There is both US-centric, cultural, and political bias in the article. 2603:9000:6C08:E900:CD83:4BA4:5F01:CB22 ( talk) 06:29, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
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Rephrase and replace when confirmed and NPOV
It seems to me that this topic is vitally important, yet completely missing from the wiki. Why was coca grown in the beginning? What benefit does it have to the indigenous people, outside of being a cash crop? As an herbal remedy, what uses was it put to? Who used it? Do they still? I remember from my studies of the Andean native peoples that coca was used as a mild stimulant to help people walk up and down the very steep mountains. Farms were arranged vertically, so each family had some land to plant at the top of the mountain, the middle & in the valley. The coca reportedly helped prevent altitude sickness as well as heart stress from walking. Is it still used this way? I think these questions are worth asking, and may lead to others. As-is, the article makes the coca growers out to be evil drug dealers out to kill Americans with cocaine. Surely they have their own agenda and purposes that have little to do with us. There is both US-centric, cultural, and political bias in the article. 2603:9000:6C08:E900:CD83:4BA4:5F01:CB22 ( talk) 06:29, 24 July 2022 (UTC)