What podcasts say about Wade Davis
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What Wade Davis has said on podcasts
11 statements · 6 positive · 4 negative · 1 neutral
Wade Davis reports no evidence of coca toxicity or addiction across traditional use.
“during that time, there's been no evidence whatsoever of any toxicity, let alone addiction”
Open the episode · #871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade DavisListen at 12:02
A 1975 nutritional study found coca rich in vitamins, protein, and calcium.
“it was chock full of vitamins and proteins, more calcium than any other plants studied”
Open the episode · #871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade DavisListen at 12:48
Coca eradication efforts began decades before cocaine became a recognized problem.
“the efforts to eradicate the fields, the traditional fields of Coca, began 60 years before there was a cocaine problem”
Open the episode · #871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade DavisListen at 13:16
Wade Davis advocates removing coca from international drug schedules to enable a legal market.
“deschedule altogether so that we can create a licit market for the plant”
Open the episode · #871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade DavisListen at 19:14
A legal coca outlet could support 250,000 Colombian farming families.
“We have 250,000 families in Colombia that grow coca. To survive, we need to give them a licit outlet for their product.”
Open the episode · #871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade DavisListen at 19:21
Legal coca-leaf exports would not prevent continued controls on illicit cocaine production.
“were coca leaves to be legal with a licit commercial export market, you would still maintain the same controls over the illicit production of cocaine that you have today”
Open the episode · #871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade DavisListen at 25:07
Wade Davis argues that coca crop-substitution programs cannot realistically replace coca economics.
“crop substitution programs are an illusion”
Open the episode · #871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade DavisListen at 25:23
International efforts to reschedule or deschedule coca remain ongoing after rejection.
“coca remains scheduled. And that was a big disappointment. But that effort continues.”
Open the episode · #871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade DavisListen at 37:27
Commercializing coca could create enormous wealth for a successful entrepreneur.
“the person who manages to crack this nut has the potential to make enormous wealth”
Open the episode · #871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade DavisListen at 39:37
Coca products could potentially compete globally with coffee.
“they could very easily compete on the level that coffee is presented to the world”
Open the episode · #871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade DavisListen at 39:46
Wade Davis attributes coca’s demonization and eradication primarily to cultural and political power.
“This was a conscious attempt to demonize and eradicate a plant and not for pharmacological reasons, not for medical reasons, not for social reasons, for cultural and political reasons of power.”
Open the episode · #871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade DavisListen at 1:15:27
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