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Usually the farmers that grow coca plants are using it as a last resort due to the fact that they are not collecting enough money from the original crops that they were growing. So they switch to cocaine as it is more expensive than buy crops and more people want to but it.

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Its because in Peru and Bolivia and such its legal and its the highest paying crops they can grow but they still work for pennys on the dollar for their work and risk there lives to do so to feed their families

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