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.

Mamani, 35, grows coca - which is the raw material for cocaine and a staple of Bolivian life, chewed as a stimulant and appetite suppressant, to combat altitude sickness and to commemorate ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Coca plant in flower, with a pollinator. Rocio Cortez-Ballen. Despite being the infamous raw material of the drug cocaine, very little is actually known about the coca plant and its wild relatives ...

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 ...