1. According to the farm women, dogs chew lemon grass leaves when they are sick. 2. Cuban President Fidel Castro, Queen Sofia of Spain and former Spanish President Felipe Gonzalez chewed coca leaves during state visits to Bolivia. 3. For every butterfly sipping nectar, there was a caterpillar chewing leaves and keeping one eye open for indignant gardeners. 4. For starters, this congressman chews coca leaves in public. 5. Quechua and Aymara Indians have chewed the leaves for centuries to relieve hunger pangs. 6. The leaves are also chewed by peasants everywhere. 7. The Indians chew the leaves for their mildly narcotic effect and use them for medicinal and religious purposes. 8. All the men of the town do is sit around and chew narcotic leaves of khat. 9. Betel leaves are chewed throughout Asia with lime and betel nuts to induce a natural high. 10. But Daher, whose unemployed husband chews the leaf, hates the drug that she relies on to feed her seven children. |