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A coca vendor works at a legal coca leaf market in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, April 18, 2024. Bolivia’s government has revived a years-long battle to get the U.N. to decriminalize the coca leaf ...
Potential coca leaf production was estimated at 44,900 to 56,200 metric tons with an estimated value of $352 million to $431 million, according to a report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.
Two of the world's biggest cocaine suppliers, Colombia and Bolivia, want the U.N. to remove the coca leaf from its list of dangerous drugs. They argue the leaf has many uses unrelated to narcotics.
Coca-Cola’s cocaine connection is worth billions. One of the world’s biggest beverages companies once added cocaine to their offering, now Coca-Cola sells the narcotic byproduct to Pharma ...
Peru’s coca leaf cultivation reaches record high in 2022. Peru’s anti-drugs commission says some 95,000 hectares of land (367 square miles) were being used to grow coca leaves in 2022.
A coca vendor works at a legal coca leaf market in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, April 18, 2024. Bolivia’s government has revived a years-long battle to get the U.N. to decriminalize the coca leaf ...
Buzz is building around a new star beverage in Bolivia, where the coca leaf has long been legal despite the U.N.’s blanket prohibition due to the plant’s association with cocaine.
Bolivia’s focus on removing the leaf from the U.N. blacklist stems from its skepticism about coca-eradication schemes, which authorities say have brought little more than violence since then-U.S ...
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