Although cocaine use became widespread in the 19th century once it was synthesized into cocaine hydrochloride salts, ...

Although cocaine is consumed in every part of the world, its base, the coca plant, is mainly cultivated in three Latin American countries: Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. The latter made headlines in ...

Cocaine is smuggled to the US a variety of ... At one point the FARC controlled 70% of Colombia's coca crops. Coca plants grow just two months a year amid the lush greenery of the Colombian ...

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

A report published in October by the international organization found that the cultivation of coca bushes increased by 10% in Colombia in 2023, while potential cocaine production increased 53% ...

Colombia's national potential cocaine output and the amount of cocaine produced per hectare are growing, thanks to highly-productive coca strains, even as crop area shrinks. (% change) Net coca ...

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Cocaine again is making headlines 40 years after Pablo Escobar and his Medellin cartel flooded America with “blow.”Coca-plant cultivation has shot up in ...

Bolivia is pushing for the global decriminalisation of coca leaf – the main ingredient of cocaine – to export the plant and ease its economic crisis. But a "landmark" recent decision by the ...

The global strategy to combat the illegal production and trade of cocaine by designating the coca plant as harmful has failed, the minister told the foreign representatives. The evidence is ...

Efforts to strangle early coca production experiments in Colón and Olancho, the departments where the plant was first detected ... “rustic” and designed only to process coca leaves into cocaine paste, ...

Used not only for cocaine, the coca leaf is also chewed as a stimulant in countries ... She argued that legalisation was the ...