a brick of dried powder that is just one stop short of pure cocaine. Small amounts of coca are legal for the indigenous who consider it a sacred plant. Wandering the countryside, a policeman is ...

Today coca leaves are harvested as an essential ingredient of the illegal, but highly lucrative, production of cocaine. Despite the plant’s role in so much violence and political instability ...

Although cocaine is consumed in every part of the world, its base, the coca plant, is mainly cultivated in three Latin American countries: Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. The latter made headlines in ...

Coca leaves, minus the cocaine, could become the next hot wellness trend. That's the bet that Pat McCutcheon, a former CEO of a Canadian cannabis company, is making with his new venture, Power ...

Cocaine again is making headlines 40 years after Pablo Escobar and his Medellin cartel flooded America with “blow.” ...

Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) Cultivation of coca for cocaine production ... a ...

The coca paste residue is placed in water and heated until most of the water content is evaporated. Cocaine is smuggled ... confront anyone who touches our plants," said Fernando Zapata, the ...

Bolivia is pushing for the global decriminalisation of coca leaf – the main ingredient of cocaine – to export the plant and ease its economic crisis. But a "landmark" recent decision by the ...

Colombia's national potential cocaine output and the amount of cocaine produced per hectare are growing, thanks to highly-productive coca strains, even as crop area shrinks. (% change) Net coca ...

“This coca ... tradition and the plant is almost exclusively grown for the narco-business, violent paramilitaries and guerrillas. The struggle to dominate the cocaine trade has claimed hundreds ...

The global strategy to combat the illegal production and trade of cocaine by designating the coca plant as harmful has failed, the minister told the foreign representatives. The evidence is ...