Researchers studying a crypt in Milan found that the coca plant may have been used “for recreational purposes” Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in ...

A new paper reveals that it's not as straightforward as it might seem. Despite decades of data collection by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), which has been valuable to monitor ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NEXSTAR) — Americans love cola-flavored beverages. After water and coffee, regular and diet cola drinks are among the most ...

Despite being the infamous raw material of the drug cocaine, very little is actually known about the coca plant and its wild relatives in the Andes mountains. Oscar Alejandro Perez-Escobar, a ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that while the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has collected annual data on areas of coca ...

The government wants farmers to uproot coca plants, whose leaves are used to make cocaine — with the promise of money, seeds and technology to... Colombia Tries To Get Farmers Away From The Cocaine ...

Colombia will use drones to resume spraying of coca crops with a weed killer, the government announced on Monday, as authorities grapple with record levels of cocaine production that have fueled ...