Article: Coca tea investigation in SA

The Medicines Control Council is investigating an energy tea said to contain high levels of cocaine, Beeld newspaper reported on Monday.

Coca tea reportedly had so much cocaine that users would fail drug tests.
 
http://www.timeslive.co.za/lifestyle/2012/07/23/cocaine-energy-tea-probed-report

The Medicines Control Council is investigating an energy tea said to contain high levels of cocaine, it was reported.

Beeld newspaper reported on Monday that Coca tea reportedly had so much cocaine that users would fail drug tests.

It could be bought from shops and pharmacies and was marketed as a herbal tea.

The council had not responded to e-mailed questions by late on Monday afternoon.

According to the Beeld report, Coca tea was described as a "heavenly magical plant of the Incas".

Two of the paper's reporters each drank a cup of the tea and had their urine tested.

Within four hours, both showed benzodiazepine levels of over 1600 nanograms per millilitre in their urine. The cut-off level for drug tests was between 150 and 300ng/ml.

The tea could not make users "high", but worked as a stimulant like caffeine.

On its website, Cocazone, the maker of Coca Tea, said it was not addictive and had been used as a medicine in South America for thousands of years, Beeld reported.

However, Spar supermarket said it would ask its franchises to remove the tea from shelves.
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Quick, off to the Spar ...
 
These drug tests are so ridiculously sensitive that they'll pick up trace amounts well below anything that could possibly be active. All coca tea exported outside South America has had the level of the active ingredients reduced. Do they have anyone at the MCC with an IQ higher than their shoe size?

What I want to know is where the benzodiazepine came from?

100 years ago it probably would not have had enough Cocaine!
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That's true, drug tests were much less sensitive back then.
 
If you have a bun with poppy seeds you can test positive for heroin. Ive never seen these in any of my local stores :D
 
benzodiazepine
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I wonder if those two idiot reporters had a baseline test...

I wonder if they know that their sleeping tablets and tranquilizers are going to show this result, not ****ing herbal tea... Sensationalism and ignorance, as always... :rolleyes:
 
mercurial said:
Tea can do that...

:D
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You've been on forums for too long. The expressions and memes are too engrained in you.

Renounce your membership now (swallow the blue pill) ... or face the consequences ...

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copacetic said:
:confused:

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I wonder if those two idiot reporters had a baseline test...

I wonder if they know that their sleeping tablets and tranquilizers are going to show this result, not ****ing herbal tea... Sensationalism and ignorance, as always... :rolleyes:
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Could be benzocaine in the tea. That could explain why they tested positive for benzo's. Similar to coke but synthetic.

Odd story but the tea must contain benzocaine and not cocaine or as you mention they are on something with benzo's :D.

I could be mistaken but anything with caine would show as benzo on a drug test. Benzocaine is widely used in the medical industry and dealers are using it to cut cocaine.
 
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