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Coca-Cola on 06 May 2009

Probably is a joke but can't be too sure with Jimmy Carter.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/05/jimmy_carter_reported_to_accep.html

The Venezuelan television network states that he has accepted an invitation to participate in the cultivation of coca with left wing Bolivian president Evo Morales, who grows it in Boliva.

 

In La Paz this Saturday, former U.S. President and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jimmy Carter accepted an invitation from Bolivian ruler and coca grower Evo Morales to harvest coca leaves on the Andean ruler's rural property in the El Chapare region (Central Bolivia).

 

"I hope that my next visit I will be able to go to El Chapare, where he (Morales) is going to take me to harvest coca leaves," thus affirmed the former head of state, with the help of an interpreter, during a press conference together with the Bolivian head of state, after a private meeting at the Government Palace.

 

Morales, leader of the coca harvesters of Bolivia, first fielded the invitation, amidst smiles and a pleasant press statement, assuring that there has been a long friendship with the Nobel Peace Laureate, who even invited him once to harvest peanuts on his lands near Atlanta (Georgia, Southeast U.S.). ...

 

The former U.S. head of state, already into his presentation, accepted the invitation.

 

"Given that President Morales has been to my property, and evidently has harvested some peanuts, I hope that on my next visit I can go to El Chapare, where he is going to take me to harvest some coca leaves," responded Carter, which also drew a smirk of happiness from Morales.


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Kasz216 on 06 May 2009

I don't see a problem. I mean the man likes farming.

I'm absolutely baffled at how he even became president.

I should read a biography on him some time.



highwaystar101 on 06 May 2009

I have heard this before. I don't remember the validity of it though on that occasion.



megaman79 on 06 May 2009

George W Bush is writing a book and you think this is strange



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

halogamer1989 on 06 May 2009

They are both far-left. Let them farm together and sing kumbaya.



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zexen_lowe on 06 May 2009

I don't see the problem with that. Coca plants are legal in Bolivia and they have lots of uses (like for example, they combat the effects that you get for being in a place so high). What's the porblem with it? If he wants to do the experience with a friend, I don't see why he shouldn't




darkhaven63 on 06 May 2009
megaman79 said:
George W Bush is writing a book and you think this is strange

 

 The hell? I thought he was dyslexic O_O



   

Kasz216 on 06 May 2009
zexen_lowe said:

I don't see the problem with that. Coca plants are legal in Bolivia and they have lots of uses (like for example, they combat the effects that you get for being in a place so high). What's the porblem with it? If he wants to do the experience with a friend, I don't see why he shouldn't

Having sex with 14 year old boys is legal in some places too....

I'm fine with him doing it but the "It's acceptable in other countries" angle doesn't fly.

 



zexen_lowe on 06 May 2009
Kasz216 said:
zexen_lowe said:

I don't see the problem with that. Coca plants are legal in Bolivia and they have lots of uses (like for example, they combat the effects that you get for being in a place so high). What's the porblem with it? If he wants to do the experience with a friend, I don't see why he shouldn't

Having sex with 14 year old boys is legal in some places too....

I'm fine with him doing it but the "It's acceptable in other countries" angle doesn't fly.

 

But harvesting coca is totally acceptable, unlike having sex with 14 y.o. boys. It's not like he'll refine cocaine. Cocaine is one of the many uses of coca.




skip on 06 May 2009
Kasz216 said:
zexen_lowe said:

I don't see the problem with that. Coca plants are legal in Bolivia and they have lots of uses (like for example, they combat the effects that you get for being in a place so high). What's the porblem with it? If he wants to do the experience with a friend, I don't see why he shouldn't

Having sex with 14 year old boys is legal in some places too....

I'm fine with him doing it but the "It's acceptable in other countries" angle doesn't fly.

 

 

Its legal in the us for a select few companies to make medical products from the leaves.

De-cocainized leaf extracts are approved by the FDA for use as a flavouring agent.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/01/business/how-coca-cola-obtains-its-coca.html