Why is cocaine bad for you, but raw, natural coca leaf is not?

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Why is cocaine bad for you, but raw, natural coca leaf is not?

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The truth is that *everything* is bad for you in high enough doses.

Too much oxygen can kill you. Too many vitamins can kill you. Even too much protein can kill you.

The process of turning coca leaves into cocaine basically involves taking a particular part of a whole lot of leaves, and concentrating it into as pure a form as can be reasonably obtained.  It takes pounds of leaves to make a gram of cocaine. 

Imagine eating a pound of coca leaves every day.

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