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

Peru's land dedicated to coca cultivation has decreased for the second year in a row by 8.2% in 2024, reaching 89,755 ...

When the cocaine business took off, coca’s status as an internationally controlled substance was cemented. Bolivia never seriously tried to abolish traditional uses of the coca leaf. Like Peru ...

Peru's coca cultivation area decreased for the second year in 2024 by 29% compared to 2023. The area now stands at 89,755 ...

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

It’s kind of a sexy term” for a drug that rarely includes actual coke, says one researcher, but that hasn’t hurt the ...

With cocaine production at an all-time high, Colombia's government is testing a pacific approach to its narcotics problem: paying farmers to uproot crops of coca, the drug's main ingredient.

Preliminary analysis puts the average daily consumption of the drug to be in the order of 100 milligrams per 1,000 people per day ...