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Bolivia achieves coca-chewing victory at United Nations [View all]
11 January 2013 Last updated at 14:46 ET
Bolivia achieves coca-chewing victory at United Nations
Bolivia has achieved a victory in its campaign to decriminalise the chewing of coca leaves.
It has been re-admitted to the UN Convention on Narcotic Drugs with a special dispensation recognising the practice as legal in Bolivia.
Bolivia withdrew from the convention last year in protest at its classification of the coca leaf as an illegal drug.
The chewing of coca leaves is a centuries-old tradition in Bolivia.
Coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine, has been used in the Andes for thousands of years as a mild stimulant and sacred herbal medicine.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20994392
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