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When Evo Morales became president of Bolivia in 2006, he set out to, as he put it, claim coca’s rightful place as an indigenous crop, not a controlled substance. Now, the results of his program are reinventing the rules of the game in the US war on drugs.

Picture: A chalkboard lists the day's prices for coca — according to the quality of the leaves — in the Villa Fátima legal coca market in La Paz. Credit: Bear Guerra