Colombia's president says cocaine is "no worse" than whiskey as global efforts to "decolonize" the plant spread ...

Cocaine again is making headlines 40 years after Pablo Escobar and his Medellin cartel flooded America with “blow.” ...

Colombian Foreign Minister Laura Sarabia, in an address to the UN's Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, insisted Monday that the coca leaf, cocaine's main ingredient, 'is itself not harmful to ...

Colombia is the world's main producer of cocaine -- much of its production in the hands of drug cartels and violent guerrilla ...

In 2023, the South American country set a new record last year for coca leaf cultivation and cocaine production, which rose 53 percent from 1,738 tonnes (1,915 US tons) to 2,600 tonnes ...

Colombia, whose President Gustavo Petro is a vocal critic of the US-led war on drugs, on Monday urged the UN to remove coca -- the main ingredient in cocaine -- from a list of harmful substances.