For over a century, the Coca‑Cola Company’s secret formula was locked away in a vault, which gave birth to all manners of ...

With permission from the DEA, Stepan imports upwards of 100 metric tons of coca leaves each year, primarily from Peru. Upon receipt, the company extracts the cocaine from the leaves whereupon they ...

While the war on drugs may have reduced Bolivia’s cocaine output, it destroyed the livelihoods of rural communities while, paradoxically, the increased scarcity of coca left it a more profitable ...

Bolivian President Luis Arce reaffirmed the nation's commitment to the legal uses of coca leaf, claiming that 'it is not cocaine.' During the National Acullico Day event in La Paz on January 11 ...

Colombia, whose President Gustavo Petro is a vocal critic of the US-led war on drugs, on Monday urged the UN to remove coca -- the main ingredient in cocaine -- from a list of harmful substances.

Cocaine production in Colombia has been rising since 2013, according to the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime. A report published in October by the international organization found that the ...

Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) Cultivation of coca for cocaine production continued ...