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

Bolivia is the world’s third-biggest producer of the coca leaf, and of cocaine. Paola Flores. Tuesday 11 June 2024 15:39 BST. open image in gallery.

Buzz is building around a new star beverage in Bolivia, where the coca leaf has long been legal despite the U.N.'s blanket prohibition due to the plant's association with cocaine.

This article was originally published on Psychedelic Spotlight and appears here with permission. I tried chewing coca leaves for a week; here's what happened.

MICAY CANYON, Colombia—One potent tributary in the surging cocaine pipeline begins in the mountains of Cauca province, where nearly every plot of arable land sprouts coca leaves. On Cesar Rosero ...

Two of the world's biggest cocaine suppliers, Colombia and Bolivia, want the U.N. to remove the coca leaf from its list of dangerous drugs. They argue the leaf has many uses unrelated to narcotics.

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

New report reveals unprecedented production, seizures and consumption in 2023, with Colombia accounting for over two-thirds ...

Annual production of the coca leaf and cocaine hit new highs in 2022, with the manufacturing of the drug rising 24 percent from the previous year, ...

Coca leaves have been part of the indigenous culture for millennia. Besides Bolivia, coca-chewing is also practiced to a lesser extent by the native populations of Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Chile ...

Some 253,000 hectares were planted with coca leaf in 2023, the report said, up from 230,000 in 2022. That brought last year's potential cocaine production up 53% to 2,644 metric tons, compared ...