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

How to Unlock Coca and Cook Cocaine in Schedule 1 Unlocking coca leaves requires rank progression and getting a good reputation with certain customers in order to gain access to a new supplier.

Coca was yet another plant once thought unknown to Italy until the 19th century, when pharmacists first began synthesizing cocaine hydrochloride salts.

How did cocaine become what it is today? InSight Crime outlines the history of cocaine from plant extract to the building block of criminal empires.

An ingredient taken from the plant used to make cocaine is set to reduce the need for sugar in food and drinks.

Cocaine is poised to overtake oil as Colombia’s main export as soon as this year — partly thanks to the South American country’s efforts to legalize the cocaine trade, according to Bloomberg ...

A tobacco plant relative called Nicotiana benthamiana has been genetically modified to produce cocaine in its leaves. Cocaine is produced naturally in the leaves of the Erythroxylum coca plant ...

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.

Scientists in China have now genetically engineered a tobacco plant to produce cocaine in its leaves. “Actually, it’s a big challenge to solve this unresolved scientific question,” says Sheng-Xiong ...