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"Argentina Has a Powerful Secret Weapon in the World Cup Final
Lionel Messi and friends will be hopped up on the natural stimulant yerba mate tomorrow — but why is another South American plant, coca, banned?

IF YOU’VE ALWAYS thought of FIFA, the international body responsible for the integrity of the world’s most popular sport, as a bundle of contradictions and double standards, this is a story for you.


Oddly enough, it involves two South American plants, yerba mate and coca, each with a deep history, and both exceedingly popular to this day, employed by millions as natural stimulants, similar to coffee and tea, only far better for one’s health, nutrition and well-being.

As Argentina takes the field against France in the final match of the World Cup, odds are that most of the players — not to mention coaches, trainers, managers, and wives — will be hopped up on mate, their national drink, brewed from the leaves and stems of Ilex paraguariensis, rich in both caffeine and theobromine, the drug that gives a lift to chocolate.



Even as FIFA blithely tolerates Argentina’s obsession with mate, it joins the world in rabid condemnation of coca, simply because of the plant’s association with the illicit market in co***ne. But coca is to co***ne what potatoes are to vodka. Unregulated co***ne has been problematic since the drug was first isolated in 1859. Coca, by contrast, has been used as a mild stimulant for at least 5000 years, with no evidence whatsoever of toxicity or addiction.



As a medicine, coca tea relieves the symptoms of altitude sickness so effectively that hotels throughout the Andes keep a constant supply on hand, available in every lobby to guests at all hours. Ironically, it was precisely this attribute of the plant that led to the downfall of Pablo Guerrero, captain and top scorer of Peru’s national team, banned by FIFA on October 3, 2017, reputedly for having used co***ne.



An old Peruvian man once told me that coca was a gift from the heavens, a sacred leaf intended only to better the lives of all people dwelling in all places on the earth. Imagine what it could be on Sunday for those going up against Lionel Messi, Argentina and mate."

Taken from an article 
by Wade Davis 

for Rolling Stone (Link in comments)

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