Posted by floatingbridge on September 21, 2011, at 7:16:00
In reply to Re: Opium and green tea » floatingbridge, posted by sigismund on September 21, 2011, at 1:30:33
> I drank a pot of matte. Naturally I didn't sleep that night. Not *particularly* euphoric.
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> Coca leaves, perhaps like opium itself, are choc full of antioxidants. And it makes, I heard once, a 'happy cup of tea' and isn't that what we need? The Bolivian Minister for Health has said that coca leaves are so good and safe they should be delivered free to school children. This seemed reasonable to me. Better, I have to say, than the kind of things I hear from health ministers in the Anglosphere.
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> They say to use water at 80C for green tea, which I might approximate, but not half an hour.How long do you allow it to steep? I used to let it steep until it was tepid.
The pics are nice. It's fire season there? Do you have a rainy season? It's our fire season as well right now. Quiet though. In CA that is.
I dig a pony.
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