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 ...

For thousands of years, people in the Andes have chewed the leaves of the coca plant to stave off hunger, treat altitude sickness, and sustain energy. Yet under international law, this ancient crop is ...

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 people ...

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Those of us who like to “ski” might be making it harder for those of us who want to, you know, actually ski. Apparently, members of the British Parliament are now blaming cocaine production for ...

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Two Mexican drug cartels “wholly control” some maritime ports where precursor chemicals for the deadly drug fentanyl are coming in. They also are cultivating coca ...

Coca-Cola might be the world’s most recognizable brand. But what would it be with only half the name? An Indigenous business in Colombia, acting, it says, “in defense of the coca leaf,” is asking the ...

A new paper published today in Molecular Biology and Evolution reveals that it's not as straightforward as it might seem. Despite decades of data collection by the United Nations Office on Drugs and ...