I think you need to define what you mean by "pure".
Cocaine is a drug that no longer keeps the purity of just the coca leaf.
Cocaine is more "pure" than the leaf.
From dictionary.com:
quote:
1. free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter: pure gold; pure water.
2. unmodified by an admixture; simple or homogeneous.
3. of unmixed descent or ancestry: a pure breed of dog.
Since the cocaine is in the leaf with other chemicals when it is extracted (purified is used later in the process) it is more pure than it was in the leaf.
Since, by that definition of pure, your comments make no sense at all I think you need to define your use of the word.
Does it mean "belonging to holy, pure mother nature?" or something?
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