Colombia has urged the UN to remove cocaine's main ingredient from its list of harmful substances, after its president said the drug is 'no worse than whiskey.' The country is the world's biggest ...

It would be sold like wine." Colombia is by far the world's biggest cocaine producer, and cultivation of coca leaves — the drug's base ingredient — reached a record high in the country in 2023 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Gasoline is one of the main ingredients for processing cocaine in Colombia. But as fuel prices increase, some locals are stealing crude oil to make bootleg gasoline ...

For decades, Coca-Cola has worked to correct the misimpression that its signature beverage, Coke, used to contain cocaine. Coke did once contain trace amounts of the drug, but even those were ...

Colombia’s Foreign Minister Laura Sarabia asked the United Nations’ Commission on Narcotic Drugs to remove coca, the base ingredient of cocaine, from its list of harmful substances. At a commission ...