To explain why he grows coca, the raw material for cocaine, rather than food crops on his 5-acre farm in southern Colombia, Luis Tapia does the math. Every three months, Tapia, 60, harvests the ...

A United Nations report found a rise in users, confiscation and deaths as cocaine trafficking expands into Africa and Asia, ...

If you need more, Salvador Moreno can arrange a delivery of up to 160 pcs. coca seeds straight to your location for a $200 delivery fee. Step 4: Grow and Harvest Coca Plants Now for the farming part.

Scientists from the Kunming Institute of Botany in China altered the Nicotiana benthamiana plant to produce two enzymes that generate cocaine when its leaves are dried.

Coca to Cocaine. In the decade preceding Vin Mariani, a young German Ph.D. student, Albert Niemann, was experimenting with coca leaves. He was part of a wave of European chemists attempting to extract ...

According to the team, at least two preserved brains buried in a crypt near a 17th century hospital display evidence of the coca plant’s active components—cocaine, benzoylecgonine, and hygrine.

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 ...

Colombia's cocaine output increased to a record 1,738 tons last year, compared to just 972 tons in 2021. Meanwhile, the country's most prominent oil company saw first-half profits crash by over ...

Pat McCutcheon, the company’s CEO, said the flavour of the sweetener has similarities to Coca-Cola, which famously used to contain cocaine until 1929, but his firm hopes it will help create ...