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cona, Jara oroa merely yie le eogoniu, from which cooaine oun be namuko bazed synthetically. Consequently, Jeva ooca is not used es & stimuleud by the mtivos. In Java, where the area under cultivation in 1922 was about 1400 hectares, the coca leaf is cultivated purely for export, whereas in Peru almost the enture output of the apoa leaf (the figures are unknown) is consumed by the people
of the country, who show the leaves mixed with chalk.
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which is based, in the case of the
The following table
Nethexiada, partly on unofficial data
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shows the quantities of
0003 leaves which were available for export in 1990, 1921, and 1922
and the quantities of cocaine which they would yield, It has been
assumed that the coon leaf has a raw cosine content of 0.84 of the
original weight, and that saw cocaine yields 75% cocaine.
Jars leaf.
Peruvian
leaf.
YesI.
Peruvian
zaw cocaibo.
Total potentia 1 quantity of cocaine.
kgs.
Iga.
Kgs.
Kgs.
1920
1,707,138 452,067
1,072,673 87,849
1,637
14,190
157
7,001
1,203,503 124,357
862
9,093
In this table, howevor, the percentages taken are probably
incorrect;
it appears from Annex 5 of the Minutes of the 5th
Session of the Advisory Comittee on Opium (C.418 M.184, 1923, page
154) that the quantity manufactured in Japan alone was as much as
2,384 Kgs, in 1921 and 3,680 kgs. in 1928,
The Toruvian cooa leaf was exported principally to the United States, Great Britain ari Iquiquo (Chili); the cocaine was exported
to the United States, Germany and Jepan No cocaine sats or other
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to raw cocaine are manufactured in Feru.
Tho oooa leaf produced in the Dutch Indies was exported
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