Hybrid Neanderthal/Denisovan first generation child

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24. I have not been to Peru, but I have

friends who were immigrants from Peru. According to them, coca leaves, tea, and candy are widely available everywhere as treatment for altitude sickness. There are vendors at the airports to sell these items to visitors when they get off the planes. Coca is legal in Peru in those forms.

As tea, chewable leaves, or candy, the coca is not addictive and does not have the effects that cocaine gives. The difference is that cocaine is pure, concentrated extract from the coca leaves. But in their natural form, they are medicinal. Peruvians use coca to treat upset stomachs, sore throats, and altitude sickness.

If you go again, get a cup if coca tea soon after deplaning. It will make you feel better, but not high. Well, at least not high in the sense of cocaine, just geologically high up.