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Cocaine is definitely a small part of the stimulant effect. Each tea bag from a quality brand could easily have 10mg of cocaine, and if you drink 2 or 3 cups you'd definitely notice an effect from the cocaine alone.
Check out http://grande.nal.usda.gov/ibids/index.php?mode2=detail&origin=ibids_references&therow=103631 for a study that identified and quantified the amount of some coca alkaloids.
Also, from cocaine.org:
Check out http://grande.nal.usda.gov/ibids/index.php?mode2=detail&origin=ibids_references&therow=103631 for a study that identified and quantified the amount of some coca alkaloids.
Also, from cocaine.org:
The cultivated Erythroxylum varieties E. coca var. coca, E. coca var. ipadu, E. novogranatense var. novogranatense and E. novogranatense var. truxillense contain 18 alkaloids, identified so far, belonging to the tropanes, pyrrolidines and pyridines, with cocaine as the main alkaloid. The biological activity of the following alkaloids has been reported in the literature: cocaine, cinnamoylcocaine, benzoylecgonine, methylecgonine, pseudotropine, benzoyltropine, tropacocaine, alpha- and beta-truxilline, hygrine, cuscohygrine and nicotine. The biological activity of cocaine and nicotine is not reviewed here, because it is discussed elsewhere in the literature. Hardly anything is known about the biological activity of the other alkaloids present in the four varieties mentioned. The biosynthesis of the coca alkaloids has been outlined.