Running With The Devil

So many of you have recently seen a new film called “Running With the Devil” starring Nicholas Cage and Laurence Fishburne.

Running With the Devil

I personally think it was an interesting movie which exposes the dark and deadly side of the illegal cocaine trade.

Running With the Devil film shows how a small group of people deliver the drug cocaine from the farmer to nightclubs and bars in United States and Canada. Once the shipment reaches a new border and the drugs are exchanged, the price also goes up.

The Cocaine Industry Exposed

It normally begins like this. The farmer secretly grows coca leaves for harvesting and production of cocaine in Peru, Colombia or Bolivia. The coca plants can be harvested for leaves 4 times a year, every 3 months. Whereas coffee and other fruit bearing plants often give fruits once or twice a year. This is why coca is so much more profitable for the farmers high up in the Andean mountains.

Then the farmer will process the coca leaves to create an illicit coca paste. A lot of toxic chemicals are used during this process such as petrol, diesel, flesh burning acids, cement and more. I am personally shocked that some people still decide to consume cocaine after knowing how its made. Running With the Devil exposes the cocaine industry.

Due to its scarcity and high value, coca paste is often used instead of money in the local communities. The locals buy food, supplies and pay rent with coca paste.

Once the coca paste is ready, the farmer now needs to sell it to someone from a local cartel, the paste will be processed into powdered cocaine hydro chloride. The farmer can also do this process, it depends on their arrangement with the buyer, which is normally a powerful drug cartel.

You must know that the farmer makes a small fraction from the cocaine trade. In fact, coca farmers who sell their coca leaf to drug cartels only make around $1000 a year! Running With the Devil sets things straight.

Vote With Your Wallet

This is why we here at Coca Tea Express highly urge our readers not to support the cocaine trade and never consume cocaine. if you want to support the coca farmers, buy their coca tea powder instead. This way the money goes directly to the farmers, their families and local communities.

Vote with your wallet.

You are also not going to be poisoning the local Andean environment because production of cocaine destroys the natural habitats with the use of toxic chemicals.

But back to the Running With the Devil movie.

The Coke Movie Plot

The story is based in South and North Americas. A DEA agent by the name of Leslie Bibb and in Colombia, we have Clifton Collins, Jr. who is a coca leaf farmer. In Vancouver, Canada, we have Barry Pepper who is “The Boss” of the whole cocaine importing empire.

Nicholas Cage and Laurence Fishburne star as two cocaine smugglers. They work for Pepper who is their boss. To cover his shady smuggling work, Cage runs a pizza restaurant. When his boss asks Cage to find out why their product is losing its purity and being cut with something else, he informs his puzzled wife that he needs to travel for work as “there are some administrative problems he needs to attend to.” Cage is a family man and relies on the drug trade to live a wealthy but normal, quiet lifestyle. Running With the Devil is an interesting movie to watch.

Drug Addiction

Laurence Fishburne, gets addicted to his own product and also develops an opiod addiction to heroin and it’s much scarier cousin, fentanyl.

Addicted to hard drugs, the actor develops an unhealthy appetite for deviant sex and masturbation as shown several times in the movie. Fishburne and his fellow degenerate drug smuggler (played by Adam Goldberg) play a huge part in the demise of the entire cocaine import operation.

The boss discovers that the final product has been seriously cut and adulterated with another substance. To fix this, he sends Nicholas Cage to investigate what is happening in Colombia, right from the coca leaf farm down to the final distributor in Canada.

Cage could have simply asked his partner in crime, Fishburne since he is the cause of the bad coke. To make matters worse for the cocaine importers, the DEA agent’s sister and brother-in-law die from an overdoses of Fishburne’s badly cut cocaine. She decides to make this investigation very personal.

My Verdict On Running With The Devil

Personally, I enjoyed watching Running With the Devil film. It tells the story of how a medicinal plant grown in the mountains of Colombia can become a toxic drug that can seriously harm.

When used as nature intended, coca leaf tea and powder can be an amazing medicine, but when processed into pure cocaine, it can seriously harm.

Running With the Devil is a must see for all.

Stay away from cocaine, and enjoy the health benefits of coca tea.

To your health and success,

Alex