Researchers studying a crypt in Milan found that the coca plant may have been used “for recreational purposes” Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

Despite disco being centuries away, residents of 17th century Italy may have had a hankering for cocaine. Preserved human brains from Milan tested positive for the drug, centuries before it was ...

Despite the stigma, the coca plant is effectively entering the drug reform movement as part of an expected “third wave of decriminalization” along with other controlled substances including ...

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 ...

To explain why he grows coca, the raw material for cocaine, rather than food crops on his 5-acre farm in southern Colombia, Luis Tapia does the math. Every three months, Tapia, 60, harvests the bright ...

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