Tea made from the leaves of the coca bush is a safe and effective appetite suppressant. Even though the much demonized cocaine is the active ingredient, coca tea has a long history of being safe and healthful. There is also no danger for first time users. When the Pope visited Columbia and drank coca tea in order to relieve his altitude sickness, he did not grab a gun and start shooting people. Likewise, he did not go on a rampage of rape, pillage, and plunder.

By contrast, the government-licensed drug industry has produced and sold many diet drugs which were later recalled because they caused organ (heart, liver, and kidney) damage in consumers including deaths.

In a Narconews article, Don Henry Ford Jr. supports illegalization because, "Make no mistake about it. Total legalization of cocaine and heroin is akin to letting people walk around with loaded automatic weapons...." His description of these drug users or people who possess these drugs is inflamatory nonsense. It needs to be refuted because demonizing drug users justifies the war against them. It justifies all the barbarisms that have been and are being committed against these drug offenders in the name of the law. Millions of honest, decent people have been declared criminals by cocaine and opiate laws.