How Coca Leaves Become Cocaine | Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller

Summary by Krater

A National Geographic report investigates how cocaine is produced in a clandestine jungle laboratory in Peru, documenting the chemical extraction process from coca leaves using gasoline, acid, cement, and ammonia.

From the video

Answers: How is cocaine made in a jungle laboratory?

• Cocaine production process
• Coca leaf processing in Peru
• Clandestine drug laboratory
• Chemical extraction of cocaine

What it concludes

• It takes 400 kilos, almost 900 pounds, of coca leaves to make 1 kilo of cocaine.
• Researchers discovered how to extract cocaine from coca leaves over 150 years ago.
• Coca was used in Coca-Cola back in the 19th century before being banned by the federal government in 1914.