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Altitude. she says it will ged rid of hung and hopeful help with the headache. and it does help with my headache. then there is the tea made with coca leaf. it is the main ingredient of cocaine but chewing and drinking it is considered safe and legal here. the vatican tried to minimize the effect by limiting pope's trip to four hours. joyous followers lined the way as the pope drove from the airport to the main plaza. he showed no signs of fatigue as he kissed children and waved to crowds but we may never know if coca leaf helped to keep up his spirits. another interesting detail here. when po...

Coca leaf. coca leaf is the main ingredient of cocaine. but drinking the tea and chewing the leaves are legal here. the vatican limiting his trip here to four hours. joyous followers lined the way. he showed no signs of fatigue as he kissed children and waved at crowds but we may never know if coca leaf helped him keep up his spirits. we'll take a break but still to come cnn's anderson cooper asked donald trump what he would do to stop isis. his answer? bombing the oil fields. >> you don't think that bombing the oil fields is going to anger huge numbers of people? >> i would bomb the hell ou...

High at la paz the in bolivia. it's so high visitors frequently get altitude sickness while there. they have a traditional cure for that -- the coca leaf as in the leaf from which you make cocaine. while cocaine is illegal in bolivia, chewing coca leaves is not. it's a national past time. there are festivals celebrating it. bolivia's president is seen chewing them in public. ahead of the pope's visit bolivia's culture minister told reporters in advance of the visit from the pope the pope specifically requested that coca leaves be made available to him during the trip to help with

Today is day two of pope francis's trip. he's held gigantic masses for hundreds of thousands of people. tomorrow he'll get very, very high at la paz the in bolivia. it's so high visitors frequently get altitude sickness while there. they have a traditional cure for that -- the coca leaf as in the leaf from which you make cocaine. while cocaine is illegal in bolivia, chewing coca leaves is not. it's a national past time. there are festivals celebrating it. bolivia's president is seen chewing them in public. ahead of the pope's visit

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