cocaine history, cocaine discovery, early cocaine use till now.
Cocaine used as medicinal plant
The coca plant come from the "Andes"
The coca plant is cultivated in south America, Indonesia eastern Africa.
In precolombian societies, Coca was used as medicinal plant, as a stimulant drug, a ritual objet or was even taxable.
In "Andins" countries, coca leaves were chewed several hours. The diggestive system was then "anesthesiated": numbness to hunger. For some it was a way to protect from the cold of high altitudes.
Early 14 century, spanish wariors gave this stimulant to exploited indignes in mines.