"Coca is to cocaine what potatoes are to vodka" — Dr. Andrew Weil
and Wade Davis on the health benefits, sacred history, and unjust
prohibition of the most misunderstood plant on Earth.
Dr. Andrew Weil is a pioneer in integrative
medicine and founder of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative
Medicine at the University of Arizona, where he holds the
Lovell-Jones Endowed Chair and serves as Clinical Professor of
Medicine and Professor of Public Health.
Wade Davis is an ethnographer, writer,
photographer, and filmmaker. From 2014 to 2024 he served as
Professor of Anthropology and BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and
Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia, and
from 2000 to 2013 as Explorer-in-Residence at the National
Geographic Society.
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Timestamps:
[00:00:00] Start.
[00:02:38] When coca tea cured my brutal altitude sickness in
Chile.
[00:04:01] Andy meets coca, 1965: the Andes' master medicine
for gut, energy, mood, metabolism.
[00:06:20] 14 alkaloids, one scapegoat.
[00:07:11] The paradox: one remedy for both diarrhea and
constipation.
[00:11:37] 8,000 years, zero addiction — and the 1975 study
no one wanted to run.
[00:13:11] Eradication began 60 years before there was a
cocaine problem.
[00:16:27] Two nations inside Peru: alcohol versus coca.
[00:17:05] The 1950 UN commission that dictated coca policy
by pseudoscience, fear, and racism.
[00:18:10] Filed beside fentanyl and heroin; 250,000 families
and the price of peace.
[00:20:03] What coca actually feels like: milder than half a
coffee, no crash, no withdrawal.
[00:24:19] Decoupling the leaf from the cartels; why crop
substitution is a fantasy.
[00:25:54] Domesticated three times; the accident of Schedule
II.
[00:27:49] The sacred leaf: k'intu, cruceta, Pachamama,
runakuna.
[00:31:11] Hayo in the Sierra Nevada, and Latin America's
most-denied gift.
[00:32:53] The wedge in the door: demand, the FDA, and an
entrepreneur's gold mine.
[00:40:22] The story coca deserves — a film, green powders,
and one good study.
[00:43:12] Monkey mind, the tax of consciousness, and an 84th
birthday on coca.
[00:47:35] Who to fund: McCurdy and the hunt for legal
leaves.
[00:49:17] Could coca treat cocaine addiction? Cost, and
NIDA's timing.
[00:53:18] "Green cocaine" at the airport: coca is to cocaine
as potatoes are to vodka.
[00:56:58] A 24-hour ritual run powered entirely by coca.
[00:59:07] Why two men gave their careers to one leaf — and
the pharmaceutical body count.
[01:06:22] America's legal cocaine capital, and Coke's secret
recipe.
[01:09:08] No accident: the hideous prose behind laws we
still obey.
[01:15:42] Parting thoughts.
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