Bolivia is one of very few countries with a legal market for coca. In the rest of the world it is controlled with the same ...

MICAY CANYON, Colombia—One potent tributary in the surging cocaine pipeline begins in the mountains of Cauca province, where nearly every plot of arable land sprouts coca leaves. On Cesar Rosero ...

When Americans are presented with the word “coca,” their mind likely jumps to cocaine. In fact, the two are often conflated ...

Will the WHO confront its colonial legacy and right a historic wrong? The critical review of the coca leaf could transform ...

coca is extracted from these leaves to make cocaine). One such example can be seen below. UNITED KINGDOM – JULY 20: Glass bottle of medicine prepared by Parke, Davis and Co of London.

Diana Salazar explains why investigators need more help from abroad—as well as more Kevlar-clad protectors at home ...

One person said: “The drink undeniably had some cocaine in it in the early days, and it’s not bulls***, the coca stands for coca leaf which is the source of alkaloid, cocaine.” Another added ...

While the war on drugs may have reduced Bolivia’s cocaine output, it destroyed the livelihoods of rural communities while, paradoxically, the increased scarcity of coca left it a more profitable ...

Accounting for $1.5 billion in 2020, the cocaine drug market is the second largest illegal drug market in the world. It comes from Erythroxylum coca, a plant native to South America that local ...

Even as production surges, domestic and foreign shifts in the global drug industry have devastated many poor Colombians whose livelihoods are tied to cocaine. Roger Guzman, 19, harvesting coca ...

Preliminary analysis puts the average daily consumption of the drug to be in the order of 100 milligrams per 1,000 people per day ...