There is only one variation of Coca Leaves available, unlike the previous drugs which have different quality levels. You need ...

Photograph by Florilegius/Album Scientific studies of coca’s medicinal properties have found that its leaves contain a powerful alkaloid that acts as a stimulant. Its effects include raised ...

“Ingredients from the coca leaf are used, but there is no cocaine ... the Mallinckrodt Corporation (a pharmaceutical company) for medicinal purposes. The Times adds: The cocaine that Stepan ...

Bolivia has since reclaimed the coca leaf as a powerful national symbol, and is now pushing for its recognition worldwide.

Indigenous communities in South America – including the Quechua and Aymara in Bolivia – have long used coca leaf in spiritual rituals and medicinal concoctions. But Bolivians' legal right to ...

Kokabol will process coca leaves to take advantage of their nutritional and medicinal properties, Juanca also explained. President Luis Arce Catacora said last week that the creation of the ...

Used not only for cocaine, the coca leaf is also chewed as a ... insisted Monday that the leaf "is itself not harmful to health". Removing it from a 1961 UN list of harmful narcotics, where ...