The Latin Times spoke to drug and security experts in Colombia to find out what lies behind the country's cocaine boom and ...

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

People Were Doing Cocaine in the 1600s, Research Shows Researchers studying a crypt in Milan found that the coca plant may have been used “for recreational purposes” ...

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 ...

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.

Beer made from the cocaine plant is creating a buzz in Bolivia. Will the rest of the world buy it? Bolivia is the world’s third-biggest producer of the coca leaf, and of cocaine ...

Tackling the challenge of coca plant ID: Wild vs cultivated for cocaine Ever wondered how scientists tell apart coca plants grown for different human uses (sometimes illegal) from those that grow ...

According to the U.N., the Colombian president is struggling to crack down on armed groups profiting from the cocaine trade as coca crops in the country reach an all-time high.

The complex biochemistry that sees coca plants make cocaine has been unpicked and replicated in a relative of the tobacco plant.

Coca-Cola gets its iconic taste thanks in part to a factory in a sleepy NJ neighborhood that has the country’s only DEA-sanctioned license to import the plant used to make cocaine.

The Duchess of Northumberland has revealed that she has been trying to secure coca seeds for the Alnwick Garden for almost a decade. Hidden behind black iron gates, topped with a warning that ...