Shops in Italy have been selling a herbal tea from Peru that contains cocaine. The matter came to light after a bus driver with the Genoa transport authority, Amt, was tested positive while undergoing a routine drugs test. The driver with a 10 year exemplary service record had a cup of herbal tea containing cocaine in the mornings before work because it made him feel alert. 38-year-old Roberto from Genoa was not aware that his morning cuppa contained small amounts of an illegal substance. Police have been ordered to confiscate the herbal brew from Peru that has been widely available in Italian shops for years. The Local reports: The bus driver said the only reason he might have failed his test was because the day before he had drunk a large cup of “delisse alla coca”, which he often brought from an ethnic food store in the centre of the city. The bus driver told the medic the morning before he had made a brew using two teabags, and that he enjoyed the tea because it made him feel more alert at the wheel. The company doctor, not wanting to see him suspended, asked him to bring two tea bags to his office, after which he made himself a brew [...]